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PESHAWAR: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Women Wing Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has strongly condemned over the shocking incident in DI Khan where a teenage girl was forced to walk naked through village streets and announced the party women workers will stage ‘sit-in’ outside residence of girl, which will continue until visit of PTI chairman Imran Khan in her house.
Speaking a news conference at press club here on Saturday, PPP women wing provincial president, and MPA Nighat Yaseem Orakzai said that the dignity of women was not protected in DI Khan. She said that government elements and lawmakers were being supporting such disgraceful incident in the district.
She said that a 16-year old girl was forced to walk through the streets of the village with no clothes on at the behest of the influential people on account of family feud, but law didn’t come into action against the perpetrators and central actors of the incident. Flanked by the party women wing general secretary, Shazia Tehmas, Ashbar Jadoon, Suriya Shahab, Saira and others, PPP MPA criticized the provincial assembly women caucus, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Commission on status of women and women-rights based organisations their failure to reacting to the incident.
She said it was ironically that the influential people had lodged an FIR against the girl’s brother so that the family could be pressurized. She said the local police also skirted the requests by the aggrieved family; however, when the report reached media and social media, an FIR was lodged against five criminals, she said.
PPP legislator said the arrest of seven criminals involved in the incident was not sufficient to give justice to the affected family. But, she demanded the arrest of central actors, including PTI local leader and Provincial Minister for Revenue, Ali Amin Gandapur, as the incident was took place under his supervision in DI Khan, she claimed.
Nighat Orakzai called the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly as rubber stump, wherein laws were passed but their implementation next to nil in the province. She said such incidents could not happen if the relevant laws enforced with its true letter and spirit in the province.
