PESHAWAR, June 21: A 13-year-old girl, Afsheen, has appealed to the judiciary to cancel the bail before arrest of her father, who had been allegedly involved in the kidnapping and killing of her mother. Addressing a press conference here on Tuesday, Afsheen, who was accompanied by her brothers, Adnan, 11, and Faizan, 8, and sister, Aiman, 5, alleged that her father Hayat Khan with the help of his brother, Zareef Khan, and sister-in-law Nasreen strangulated her mother, Wajahat, after keeping her in captivity for a week.

Afsheen, who is a resident of the Allah Dakhail Charsadda village said that on April 7, 2005, her father, Hayat, and her uncle came to the house and locked all the children in one room at gun point and took away their mother to some unknown place.

She added that the next day when one of their relatives visited them he let them out.

She said that when she along with some relatives went to the Battagram police station, the then SHO Dawar Khan refused to register a case against her father who was a close friend of his. “In case the police had registered a case against the kidnapper and conducted some raids then there was a possibility that my mother could have been recovered alive,” the girl said while wiping tears from her cheeks.

She said that she and her siblings came to know about the whereabouts of their mother when her body was recovered from the Kalpani canal on April 14 and after an autopsy she was laid to rest on April 18.

Afsheen said that her maternal grandfather was in the police and through his personal intervention a case was registered against her father.

She appealed to the honourable judge to cancel the bail before arrest of her father, who had not only killed his wife but at the same time made his children helpless as they were left without any shelter and had to take refuge in the house of their maternal grandfather.

She demanded that her uncle Zareef and auntie Nasreen be arrested as they were the main conspirators behind the killing of her mother.

She also appealed to NWFP Governor Khalilur Rehman, Chief Minister Akram Durrani and Inspector General Police Riffat Pasha to take notice of the heinous crime, ensure her and her siblings protection against their father and provide them justice.