‘Faith healer’ tortures youth, slashes his tongue in Bahawalnagar

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BAHAWALNAGAR: A fake faith healer slashed the tongue of a youth and tortured him as well in Saddar here on Wednesday.

Reports said the prolonged ailment made Mazhar Husain of Bonga Ehsan ‘deranged’. His family took him to ‘faith healer’ Israr Husain of Mari Qadir Bakhsh for spiritual treatment.

He demanded from the family of Mazhar Rs10,000 for his full recovery within few hours.

The fake faith healer and his disciple took Mazhar to an adjacent house where he was tortured with clubs and iron rods.

They finally slashed his tongue and then escaped from the scene when he fell unconscious.

The family shifted Mazhar to a hospital. Later, the family staged a demo against the incident and demanded strict action against the accused.

Published in Dawn, April 21st, 2016

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Tajmeer

Apr 21, 2016 11:37am

Sad incident but the family is equal responsible for the incident as like the fake peers. If they are taking their children to these fake peers then why they are asking for strict actions. These days media again and again showing such incidents but no one is bothering and still this happening because people do not want to avoid by not going to these people any more.

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Muzzamil

Apr 21, 2016 12:12pm

The family members are the criminal. They took the victim to faith healer. The family should pay compensation to victim.

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Hassan

Apr 21, 2016 12:22pm

The parents should also serve "community service", as part of their rehabilitation, so more parents in these rural areas are educated about the lies of these faith healers and quacks.

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Sixer From Chakwal

Apr 21, 2016 12:25pm

Even many educated people in sub-continent believes in spiritual leaders. These peer fakeers or darbaars cannot do anything for themselves even.

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SAEED MASOOD

Apr 21, 2016 12:33pm

These faith healers should be punished...but this family is also to blame why they handed their son to this criminal...

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adil

Apr 21, 2016 12:36pm

The family took the youth and then they staged a demo against the incident and demanded strict action against the accused? Seriously

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REALISTIC

Apr 21, 2016 12:40pm

"Later, the family staged a demo against the incident and demanded strict action against the accused." Demo against whom? The family members should also be booked for crime. After all they were the ones who took the poor patient to the fake faith healer.

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annfan

Apr 21, 2016 01:36pm

"Later, the family staged a demo against the incident and demanded strict action against the accused." They must be kidding!!! This is a joke. Action should be taken against the deranged and disillusioned family first.

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Naseer

Apr 21, 2016 01:35pm

Strict action! What a joke? The family is primarily responsible for all this ill-faith act! it milk.

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Ahmed bin Babar

Apr 21, 2016 04:02pm

They should stage demo for their own stupidity for risking the life of their kid at the hands of one cheater in the name of faith...

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Ali jee

Apr 21, 2016 04:29pm

Put all peer in jail

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syed wasim haider

Apr 21, 2016 08:06pm

It is high time that these so called faith healed be scrutinised. They are deceiving innocent people. There are lots of such cases unreported.

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M.Saeed

Apr 21, 2016 11:49pm

What does it mean to say "Fake faith healer"? The Jadugar should be booked and tackled as a hard-boiled criminal but more importantly, those who patronize such crooks should also be dealt-with equally.

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