Woman demands recovery of daughters

Published September 27, 2005

SUKKUR, Sept 26: A woman, Noor Jehan Memon, has said that her two daughters have been kidnapped about 15 days back and police were not taking action against the kidnappers.

Talking to newsmen at the Sukkur press club on Monday, Ms Memon said that her former husband Ghulam Sarwar Memon, her brother-in-law Ghulam Rasool Memon and her father-in-law Ghulam Haider Memon, residents of Lakhi Ghulam Shah, came to her house in New Goth and kidnapped seven-year-old Naila and eight-year-old Shumaila at gunpoint.

She said neither the Lakhi police nor the Sukkur police were ready to register FIR after which she met with the RPO and DIG Sukkur who directed police officials concerned to recover kidnapped girls and register case against the accused.

Noor Jehan told the newsmen that some two years back she got divorce from her husband Ghulam Sarwar Memon as her husband and father-in-law used to force her in prostitution. Later, she along with her children shifted to New Goth Sukkur.

PROTEST: More than 150 sanitation officials of taluka municipal council took out protest rally and staged a demonstration outside the press club on Monday following attack and maltreatment of refuse lorry driver Mumtaz Shaikh.

According to protesters, when driver Mumtaz Shaikh with supervisor Nisar Mangi went to New Goth Sukkur to collect refuse Saleem Bandhani attacked him with stone and injured him while later hundreds of inmates of the areas maltreated them and posed hurdles in official duty.

KARO-KARI CASE: A case has been registered against six accused at the Pano Akil police station following killing of a woman on the pretext of karo-kari on Sunday.

Mst Aisha, wife of Bagan Chahcar, resident of Bakhshoo Seelro near Pano Akil was shot dead by her relative Gul Hassan on the pretext of karo-kari.

Khursheedan Khuhro, daughter of the deceased woman, registered FIR at the Pano Akil police station against six persons but no arrest was reported till filing the report.

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