This kind of news really pisses me off. Sonia Naz is a 23 year old mother of two kids, who was arrested earlier this year for wandering into the parliament of this country. What she went through after she was arrested for this 'criminal act' is both chilling and shameful for the whole nation. It is indeed a bad and dark leave in our history. Not surprisingly though there are many more.
We need to ask ourselves, can we allow such brutality to take place without so much as raising a single voice? If yes then we are truly the sons of this soil. Lament my friends because that is all you can do. But lament upon your own situation. she will live, one way or the other.
Edited: Story courtesy of The News.
She alleges she was later kidnapped for 15 days and raped by Jaranwala SHO Jamshed Chishti - on the orders of SP Investigation Khalid Abdullah - soon after her release from Adiala jail.
"I had no idea that an SP level officer could be so cold-hearted and criminal," Sonia said before breaking into sobs.
"Had parliamentarians and Punjab government given me justice, I might have been saved the worst humiliation possible," Sonia wailed.
"Rapist" cops version When The News contacted SP Investigation Faisalabad Abdullah Khalid, who was recently promoted from rank of DSP to get his point of view, he appeared indifferent.
On the other hand, SP Abdullah started using derogatory language when he heard Sonias name. He passed many insulting comments on her character. But, when this correspondent pressed the SP to respond to the serious charges made against him, he outrightly rejected Sonias allegations.
"Look, Sonia only wants to become the Mukhtaran Mai of Faisalabad. I had also told the Lahore High Court judge that she would become (Mukhtarian Mai) to malign me," SP Abdullah shrugged off, sarcastically.
The SP claimed Sonia had changed 60 SIMs of different mobile phones to avoid arrest. But, he vowed that he would trace her and the rest of her family members soon as "I have widened my network all over Pakistan".
"Last time, she was reported to be hiding in Landhi, Karachi. Although, Landhi is a big area but do not worry, I am after her," Khalid Abdullah said, adding "she is a liar and I did not do anything to her", SP Abdullah said.
Recounting the day of the horror, Sonia said: "One day, when I was going to my tailor, I was picked up from Lahore by some people at gunpoint, who handcuffed and blindfolded me. After shoving me in a car and driving it for four hours, I was taken to a village house and warned if I ever tried to raise a voice, I would be simply gunned down".
"Finally, a night before my release, SP Abdullah personally came there with SHO Jamshed Chishti. The SP told me I had been maligning him all over Pakistan by first approaching the parliament and then giving interviews in the media and now he would teach me a lesson I would remember for rest of her life".
The SP, she said, chided her for doing this as he mocked that he had already released her husband.
"Then, turning furious, the SP directed the SHO to undress me and he started raping me. When I tried to resist, both of them thrashed me, causing many injuries to my face.
"After I was raped, SP Abdullah stepped forward and urinated in my mouth, challenging me to go and do whatever I could," said Sonia, sobbing bitterly.
"If all the Parliament could do was to send me to jail, what should I expect from rulers, now that I lie shorn of dignity and groveling like an untouchable".
We need to ask ourselves, can we allow such brutality to take place without so much as raising a single voice? If yes then we are truly the sons of this soil. Lament my friends because that is all you can do. But lament upon your own situation. she will live, one way or the other.
Edited: Story courtesy of The News.
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