Daily Times

LARKANA: Civil society, non-governmental organisations (NGOs), poets, researchers, nationalists and clerics on Sunday held a protest and demanded justice for Saima Jarwar over her rape and murder.

A nine-year-old Saima was abducted, killed and dumped in a sewage pond after allegedly being raped in Ayub Colony in Larkana district.

Despite a high-level investigation team was constituted, headed by SSP Tanveer Tunio, the police has been unable to arrest the culprit(s).

The agitators included Jarwar community headed by their chief Sardar Ali Jarwar, members of Sindhi Adabi Sangat, Rawadari Tehreek, Fisher Folk Forum, Pakistan Peoples Party Shaheed Bhutto (PPPSB), Awami Workers Party, PPP-Workers, Sindh Taraqi Pasand Party, Sunni Tehreek, Jafferia Students Organisation, Jeay Sindh Qaumi Mahaz, Saqafati Tanzeem.

The parties staged a sit-in at Jinnah Bagh and demanded to arrest the culprit(s) as soon as possible.

“Saima’s murder is the murder of entire humanity,” the protesters said.

They said that lawlessness prevails over Sindh where minors were being assaulted but rulers have been asleep.

Naseem Jarwar, father of Saima, denounced the postmortem report and said that it was fabricated ‘intentionally’ to protect an influential person. He alleged that DNA tests have not been conducted yet.

He appealed Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, Sindh chief minister Syed Murad Ali Shah and Sindh Inspector General of Police (IGP) to arrest the accused and hang him publicly.

Published in Daily Times, April 30^th 2018.