Man sells small daughter to landlord after failing to repay loan

A Correspondent Published July 31, 2017

BADIN: A man handed over his eight-year-old daughter to an elderly landlord as a mortgage after failing to pay him back Rs100,000 loan in Tando Bago town, 21 kilometres from here, on Sunday.

The shameful deal came to light when Ms Soomri Machhi approached Tando Bago police station and complained that her husband Achar Machhi had sold off her daughter Nazia, 8, to an old landlord Ali Murad Chandio in Pathan Water village near the town.

Police raided the village to recover the girl and returned her to her mother who accused his husband of having sold the girl for Rs100,000.

Tando Bago SHO Ali Anwer Leghari confirmed the girl had been sold and said further investigation was under way.

Achar Machhi told journalists that he had handed over his daughter as mortgage after having failed to pay back the loan he had taken from the landlord.

Police did not register an FIR nor made any arrest in the case.

Published in Dawn, July 31st, 2017

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Sachin

Jul 31, 2017 09:29am

Please do something to atleast help the poor girls of rural Sindh and Tharparkar.

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Afzal

Jul 31, 2017 11:39am

The lagislatures in the provinces and in Islamabad should wake up and put forward stricter legislation to end this issue. Of course the big landlords in the assemblies will resist. But now we have adequate numbers of commoners and lady members in the assemblies who can take the proposed legislations to get passed in the assemblies. In the given circumstances we do need the assistance of the NGOs and the Legal Aid organizations to counter this kind of shamefull occurance. On the other hand it also need to be seen how govt. can provide loans to the poor farmers so that they do not have to borrow from the Landlords and do not have to hand over their daughters.

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Z. Khan

Jul 31, 2017 12:08pm

This is the reality of Pakistan. The politicians are too busy grabbing the wealth while poorest in the country continue to suffer injustices extremely low moral, ethical and most importantly Islamic principals. WHERE ARE THE POLITICIANS IN AREA?

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Saif Zulfiqar

Jul 31, 2017 12:09pm

This is the tradition in Sind and Punjab. Government should help these poor people from doing these things, .

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syed Muhammad Jehangir

Jul 31, 2017 12:18pm

Police should register FIR against both of her father and landlord for such type of stupid action.

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Citizen

Jul 31, 2017 12:47pm

@Z. Khan Busy in traveling and or making senseless speeches to break or make governments etc.

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ambreen

Jul 31, 2017 12:50pm

i agreed these people are not educatedbut atleaset ther are muslims, how can the do such a shameful deal

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RationalBabu

Jul 31, 2017 12:59pm

@ambreen : The same as other shameful things they do like honor killings, revenge rapes etc.

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Love Your Country

Jul 31, 2017 02:51pm

This is the state of our society and we are looking for sadiq and ameen - no chance of finding one.

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Imtiaz Ali Khan

Jul 31, 2017 04:50pm

@Sachin I thank you for your voice Sachin God Bless You.

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Imtiaz Ali Khan

Jul 31, 2017 04:51pm

@Afzal Rightly said bhai.

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Khan:Vn

Aug 01, 2017 10:04am

@Imtiaz Ali Khan Extract kidneys from both: father and landlord: sell on eBay : pay compensation to little girl: grant scholarship : so she can have better life : let both serve prison on single kidney :

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