PESHAWAR, Dec 26: A woman councillor of the Nowshehra city has appealed to the president and the chief justice of Pakistan to take action against the alleged killers of her husband and three other relatives.

Speaking at a news conference here at the Peshawar Press Club on Thursday, Councillor Mukesh Begum said Kachkol Khan and his son Raz Mohammad on July 30, 1980, killed her husband Haji Umer Khan (ex-warrant officer of Pakistan Air Force) and three others— Mukamal Shah, Haji Qadir Khan and Sarfaraz Khan— in Muslim bazaar. The FIR was registered at the local police station, she added.

Rakht Cheena Bibi, widow of Mukamal Shah, and Hazrat Bibi, widow of Qadir Khan, were also present on the occasion.

The woman councillor said that remaining at large for 20 years, the alleged killers had been arrested in 2000— Raz Mohammad from Khaishgi near Nowshehra while his father Kachkol Khan from the tribal areas.

A sessions court awarded the father and the son capital punishment and fined them Rs50,000 each. But they appealed against the decision in the High Court, which ordered a rehearing.  

The sessions court reviewed its own decision and found Kachkol Khan and Raz Mohammad innocent and freed them.

Mukesh Begum said that she wanted to file a review petition against their release, but Kachkol Khan and Raz Mohammad had been threatening families of the victims and forcing them to compromise on the issue.

Being even a councillor of the Nowshehra city, Mukesh Begum is helpless and unsafe. The reason for this murder was a scuffle between some boys of the family which resulted in the murders of three men.

Now the killers were harassing her son, a school teacher, to sign a compromise deal with them.