GH Farooqi
Chitral
Coordinator KP and officer of the Pakistan International Human Rights Organization, (PIHRO) led by Additional Deputy Commissioner Disaster and Human Rights Chitral Abdul Wali Khan, rescued a disabled woman and her four-year-old daughter from her husband’s atrocities here on Saturday.
According to detail, the land was transferred by her parents in the name of a disabled girl, belonging. to the Gujar tribe, who later got married and her land was taken over by her husband.
The husband tortured the disabled woman who was mentally unstable as well. He later divorced her and took her four-year-old daughter from her. The husband did not give anything to his wife after divorce. Alam Khan, District Officer PIHRO Lower Dir said that his organization received a complaint from Dir Khal village that a four-year-old girl was being tortured by her father and stepmother who were trying to kill her. ‘We took immediate action and registered a case against him and approached the local court on which the apex court ordered to hand over the girl to her mother.
The mother and daughter were brought to their ancestral home at Chitral. Social Welfare Officer Nusrat Jabeen and Darulaman Project Manager Asia Ajmal, PIHRO Provincial Coordinator Meraj Muhammad and District Officer Alam visited the homes of the two affected women under the supervision of Additional Deputy Commissioner Disaster and Human Rights Abdul Wali Khan. On this occasion, he assured that when Darul Aman is completed, this woman and her innocent daughter will be shifted there. Her ex-husband had built a house on her ex-father in law land but the house is now in her brother’s possession, where she lives with her brother, wife and children, including her daughter.
The victim told the media that her husband had abused and tortured her and had beaten time and again to hand over the land. He also threatened to kill my daughter if she did not accept his demand of handing over the land. PIHRO District Officer Dir Lower Alam Khan Yousafzai told the media that they received another complaint that a woman from Kuju area of Chitral was married to 80-year-old Baba Wilayat Shah in Swabi.
