Grieving father seeks justice

Published September 14, 2005

ISLAMABAD, Sept 13: A poor vegetable seller of Lodhran whose three daughters aged between 5 and 9 were brutally killed last year after being raped came to Islamabad on Tuesday to seek justice.

Mohammad Azam appealed to President Pervez Musharraf and Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz at a press conference to secure him justice.

Only one of the three rapists had been arrested and the names of the main accused were not even mentioned in the FIR, he said.

He demanded that his uncle Shafi Mohammad and Mohammad Bashir should be arrested and tried for the crime. The arrest of their servant Tajammal Abbas was not sufficient, he said, asserting that the crime could not have been committed by just one person.

All the three accused were seen roaming around together after dusk on the day the incident took place. People think they wanted to shift the bodies of the girls somewhere else but could not do it as lot of people were searching bodies, he said.

Azam suspected his uncle because, he said, he did not attend the funeral of the girls. Instead he disappeared along with his family, locking his house.

His servant Tajammal Abbas appeared before the police in a dramatic manner confessing that he had committed the crime all alone, according to the grieving father.

Azam alleged that Mohammad Shafi had made an attempt on his life and had lodged an FIR against him some time back. But the two made up at the intervention of the local MPA Pir Amir Shah Qureshi.

Azam said he was a poor man and did not have money to even pursue his case. He said DPO Lodhran Zaman Langrial and Chairman Zakat and Ushr Committee Chaudhry Hameed had announced financial assistance of Rs50,000 each for him, but he has not received a single paisa of it.

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