Sonia Naz

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Police terms of reference for Sonia*
‘Get four pious witnesses to prove rape charge’*

*By our correspondent
*ISLAMABAD: The police inquiry team Wednesday asked Sonia Naz to produce four pious and reputable Muslim witnesses to testify her charge of rape at the hands of cops, otherwise her case would be dismissed.

The inquiry officers also warned Sonia that since the Punjab police was bugging her telephones for the last many months, the recording of her conversation with Lahore, Faisalabad and Islamabad journalists, who, they alleged, had been publishing her side of the story, would be used at an appropriate time.

Sonia alleged that during investigations, one of the inquiry officers, SP Captain Usman Khattak, asked her to give details and names of her “boyfriends” and other “flirtations” she might have had.

Dismissing the indecent allegations angrily, Sonia asked Captain Usman what these questions had to do with her rape case. Sonia said the inquiry officers asked every question about her past except the “abduction, torture and rape at the hand of SP Khalid Abdullah”.

The inquiry team including Aslam Tarin, SP Captain Abid Qadri and SP Captain Usman Khattak told Sonia during investigation that she was required to bring in at least four witnesses who could testify to the alleged rape by SP Khalid Abdullah and Inspector Jamshed Chishti.

Sonia told the investigators that many evidences were already given in the inquiry report of DIG Zafar Qureshi and Saad Bharwana and they should first consult that report. But the inquiry officers said they did not believe in the findings of the previous report.

Sonia told the inquiry officers that SP Khalid Abdullah and Inspector Jamshed Chishti had abducted her and all those who subjected her to torture and later, raped her were closely linked to Inspector Chishti. Sonia counter-questioned how she could produce all those who, she alleged, acted on behalf of SP Khalid Abdullah.
** Also 2 of Sonia’s sisters got divorced and the remaining one is getting soon, she said all 4 of them will soon be living with her widowed mother.

:yukh: this is all soo disgusting, everyone in power is corrupt! i cant believe they could get soo low…
source:jang

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unbelievably sad

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Our image is already shattered on the foreign grounds, why make it worse? Why not write articles and letters in the local Pakistani papers?

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The good thing is that the matter is being discussed in the court. The other side will try to make Sonia Naz look 'not so inocent' by every means. Hopefully the judge will see the rape as rape and not only fire the culprits but also give them the punishment they deserve. I mean according to the law she needs to bring 4 witnesess? If convicted are they going to hang the officers?

It is also very sad to see her sisters getting divorced just because of this case. Some would think the 'husbands' would show some backbone and support their wives in this time of trouble.

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Here is an update I saw today, It sad to see that the mentality amongst Pakistani’s. Punish the victim, unfortunately her children will also have to suffer.

Police rape victim still running from pillar to post
By FAREHIA REHMAN Submitted 15 hrs 27 mins ago
ISLAMABAD - Sonia Naz, a police rape victim, who remained in limelight courtesy of the civil society activists, is now running from the pillar to post for justice but no one even ready to listen her ordeal.
After highlighting Sonia’s rape case in media for a considerable period of time for the obvious reasons, now the civil society has left her in the most miserable condition where she could not even get an ordinary job to meet the both ends.
Living in entirely deplorable conditions at a rented accommodation in Rawalpindi along with her husband and two children, she is highly depressed owing to her husband’s joblessness and her children, who despite being in age of school going, could not get education. During last few years she tried her best to get rid of her past and restart her life, however her miseries are increasing with the passage of time.
With tears running down on her face and depressed voice, she unveiled her ordeal saying that she wanted to forget her past but attitude of the people was teasing her. “I tried my best to settle in Karachi, where I also admitted my children in the school but continuous threats forced me to leave that place”, she noted. She said, “As I return, I knocked door of every NGO worker, whom I know, for getting legal aid or some monetary support so that I could send my children to school, but no one even ready to listen me.”
She further added, “Now I have no option other than begging for managing two time meals for children”. She maintained that the most depressing thing for her was that her children were out of the schools. About the civil society she informed that they just preferred to listen her in front of the media. On the other day, Sonia informed that she met Farzana Bari in a rally, which was held on the occasion of the International Women Day, but she asked her to phone her (Bari) later.
When approached, Farzana said that she called Sonia and told her to tell her about the case. “Initially I understand her case and than decided what I can do for her”, she added.
In April 2005, Sonia found herself baffled over her husband’s whereabouts. After questioning friends and neighbours, anxious Sonia learned that her husband had been taken into custody by Faisalabad police. She repeatedly visited the police stations and faced disappointment. At last she paid a visit to the National Assembly in Islamabad and spoke with the people who might have the power to get some answers in this regard. Instead of helping her, they accused her of unlawfully entering the Assembly building and handed her over to Faisalabad police. This was beginning of Sonia’s journey towards a miserable life.
Sonia holds police chief, Khalid Abdullah, responsible for having her locked up in a house for 15 days and having ordered one of his officers to repeatedly rape and beat her. Sonia said that the rape incidents were her punishment for questioning her husband’s arrest and making efforts for his release.
On 12th of October 2005, on the Supreme Court’s instructions, Lahore Police finally register a criminal case against SP Khalid Abdullah and Inspector Jamshed Chishti on charges of abduction and rape of Sonia Naz. The Supreme Court resumed its hearing on Sonia case and ordered to form an investigation committee comprising two police officers of deputy inspector general’s rank to probe into Naz’s case and start criminal proceedings against the two accused police officers.
About which Sonia told that the committee came up with findings of her favour. “Though I regularly attended the trail in session court despite threats but at the end the accused were quashed,” she noted.
She said that accused Khalid had closed links with the PML-Q and that’s why he was still roaming freely. Today, she is receiving threats and no one is paying heads, she said.

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