Pakistan People’s Party Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Women Wing slammed the shocking incident of Dera Ismail Khan where a teenage girl was forced to walk naked in the streets, and announced to stage a sit-in outside the residence of the victim until Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan visits her house .
The PPP KP Women Wing President and Member KP Assembly Nighat Orakzai said while speaking at a news conference at Peshawar Press Club on Saturday that the dignity of women was not protected in D.I. Khan. She alleged that influential elements and lawmakers were supporting such disgraceful and inhuman incidents in the far-flung areas of the country.
She said that a 14-year old girl was forced to walk naked in the streets of a D.I. Khan village at the behest of influential people on account of family feud, but unfortunately the law did not come into action against the perpetrators and central actors of the gory incident.
Orakzai criticised the KP Assembly women caucus, KP Commission on the Status of Women and women rights’ organisations for their failure to reacting to the incident. She said that it was ironical that the influential people had lodged an FIR against the victim’s brother so that the family could be pressurised.
The MPA further said that local police also skirted the requests by the aggrieved family; however, she added, when the report surfaced on mainstream and social media, only then an FIR was lodged against five suspects. The PPP legislator said that the arrest of seven suspects involved in the incident was not sufficient to give justice to the affected family.
She demanded the arrest of main actors, including PTI local leader Ali Amin Gandapur for his alleged involvement in protecting the perpetrators. Media reports said that the PPP MPA also stressed for immediately arresting Gandapur for allegedly patronising the suspects.
Orakzai also termed the KP Assembly as a rubber stump, wherein, she said, laws were only passed while their implementation was next to nil.
She said that such incidents would not happen if relevant laws were enforced as per its true spirit in the province. She asked the PTI Chairman Imran Khan to spare some time from his luxurious life and visit the affected family.
Orakzai also criticised JUI-F chief Maulana Fazl-ur-Rahman over his ‘criminal’ silence on the incident that took place in his native district. Similarly, she also came hard on Jamaat-e-Islami cheif Senator Sirajul Haq for not giving any reaction over the shocking incident. The PPP lawmaker said that Imran used abusive language while his team was involved in immoral and inhuman activities in the province, adding that the incumbent PTI-led KP government had ruined the province wherein, she said, no facility of health and education was available to the poor masses.
Orakzai said that PPP Women Wing had decided to visit the victim’s family in DI Khan and stage a protest sit-in outside the residence of the girl .
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