LAKKI MARWAT: The performance of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa police will be questioned if the prime suspects in the killing of medical student Asma Rani in Kohat and parading a woman naked in DI Khan are not arrested without delay.

This was stated by Jamaat-i-Islami chief Sirajul Haq while talking to mediapersons in Naurang town on Tuesday.

The JI chief went to the residence of slain medical student and extended condolence and expressed sympathies with her father Ghulam Dastagir and other relatives.

JI provincial emir Mushtaq Ahmad Khan, district naib emir Haji Azizullah Khan and other leaders also accompanied him.

Asma Rani, a third year medical student in Ayub Medical College Abbotabad, was killed in Kohat on Jan 28 on refusing a marriage proposal.

She belonged to Naurang town of Lakki Marwat and her brutal killing had sparked protests in the district.

The JI chief said to educate girls in Pakhtun society was a matter of pride, but incidents like killing of Asma Rani were heart-rendering.

He said despite poverty the parents sent Asma Rani to Ayub Medical College Abbotabad and another daughter abroad on scholarship for PhD education.

He termed fleeing of the student’s killer from country a failure on part of the government and called for taking measures to bring him back from Saudi Arabia through Interpol.

He expressed concern over surge in rape and murder incidents of women and children in the country and asked the government to take special steps to overcome such gory incidents.

Published in Dawn, February 14th, 2018