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Thursday, January 11, 2018

Pakistani anchor goes on-air with daughter to protest rape and murder of 7-year-old girl


Kiran Naz, a news person at Saama TV, has protested the brutal rape and murder of a 7-year-old girl in Pakistan by bringing her daughter to the news broadcast.

Holding her daughter in her lap, Ms. Naz opened the channel’s news bulletin saying that she is not Kiran Naz today, but a mother. She went on to blame the government’s inefficiency for the incident and called it a murder of humanity.

The girl in Kasur district of Punjab province was abducted last week outside her home. Her body was found in a rubbish dump on Tuesday. She had gone to a religious tuition centre near her house in Kasur city, some 50 km from Lahore, on January 5 from where a man said to be a ‘serial killer’ abducted her, police said.

“A serial killer seems to be behind this incident. That serial killer may have been involved in other eight such cases in Kasur,” senior police officer Zulfiqar Hameed said.

The distraught father of the victim has blamed the “callous attitude” of police as the government roped in military intelligence and the ISI to probe the horrific incident that shocked the country.

The child’s parents were in Saudi Arabia to perform Umrah and she had been living with a maternal aunt.

According to a preliminary post-mortem report, the girl was raped multiple times before being strangled to death. There were visible marks of torture on her face, congestion in her muscles.

The horrific incident triggered public outage throughout the country with people demanding justice for the child. The protests continued for the second day.

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