SUKKUR: A large number of men, women and children, workers of natio­n­alist parties and social organisations took out a big procession here on Saturday demanding reco­v­ery of an expecting mot­her and her two-year-old daughter who were abduc­ted at gunpoint in Kand­hkot 11 days ago.

The procession staged on the call of Human Right Commission of Pakistan and Khoso clan concluded at local press club where the victims’ mother Rash­eeda Khatoon, her grandfather Yaqoub Khoso and others told media persons that district police had failed to recover the victims.

They appealed to the IGP to rec­over the mother and her daughter immediately and put the culprits behind bars.

They demanded the government protect life and property of people at all costs.

Published in Dawn, February 19th, 2023

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