Dear All
A 14 year old girl had a press conference at national press club,Islamabad who was reportedly sexually assaulted by an MNA and the member of Pakistan Muslim League (N) Ayaz Amir. This incident of sexual assault of young girl reflects the level of morality and character strength of our leaders. Who we voted to represent us in parliament but unfortunately they are using this power to victimize poor people.
This is really very sad incident but the thing that is more alarming, is the silence of our Pakistani Media. None of the leading newspapers bothered to highlight this press conference. The anchors who never miss a chance to criticize government, the way they have ignored this issue seems that they arent neutral when it is the matter of their own community.
Why we are silent? because Ayaz Amir is a journalist himself and write columns for a leading newspaper The News? Is Pakistani Media is going to protect Black Sheep disguising as a journalist. What if there would be a non journalist politician instead of Ayaz Amir, would it going to be ignored like this.
Why everybody is silent, Why anchors Hamid Mir, Shahid Masood, Talat Hussain, Asma Sherazi or any of the anchor person havent raised this issue in their programme. Why any of these aggressive anchors didnt dare to speak for poor girl.
I hope Press Pakistan wont ignore this issue.
Cheers
Fawad
A young girl from dist.chakwal,after desperation from local police, comes to national press club Islamabad,tells how a powerful MNA from Muslim league N raped her and threats her to close her mouth. She demands justice from chief justice and requests free liberal media to highlight her issue.
But the next day(Friday 26 Aug)only 3 or 4 national news papers publish her sad story. Daily Jung,express and some other big news papers ignore this crime story just because Mr Ayaz Ameer is not only a MNA but also a so called journalist. All TV Channels are silent,religious parties are not ready to take up this issue,,,big anchors,,do not like to discuss this burning issue in their programs. Why????????????????
Is this liberal and powerful media??
For media,kidnapping of shehbaz is a breaking news,,but rape of a poor young girl is nothing for so called liberal media.
Where is Khadmey aala,,Shehbaz Sharif, chief justice,media, and above all religious parties and NGOS?????????????????????????? ??????????
Raja Liaqat
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http://www.thenews.com.pk/TodaysPrintDetail.aspx?ID=64613&Cat=9Ayaz Amir Responds….!
A Strauss-Kahn in Chakwal by Ayaz Amir
Here I was about to write of Karachi – the title floating in my mind “How Stalin would have resolved the situation”, standing up against a wall the entire Karachi administration and not a few of its political leaders – and here something has occurred in Chakwal to claim my flitting attention.I have been accused of various things in my time – heresy to personal failings, from homage to Bacchus to philandering (this last vastly exaggerated…often the quietest souls are the most successful in this field while those who strut about or thunder the most are like dogs whose bark is worse than their bite).
During the last elections my embittered opponents, expecting a free run but not getting it, would buy entire pages of the local press to recount my personal failings, culled mostly from my own columns over the years. Which, in a way, was flattering. Who cares about yesterday’s columns? But my opponents, or their local hirelings, would go through them with an avidity I found amusing.
But for all my breaking of the ten commandments and more, never was I accused of rape. Now this defect stands remedied by an application against me by one Ms Tubassam in the court of the local sessions judge. The story is interesting.
On the 17th of August a kidnapping-c u m-robbery case is registered against Tabassum, her uncle and aunt, and a few others, in police station Chakwal. The complainant is Tabassum’s mother-in-law, who also happens to be her real aunt.
On the 20th of August, full three days later, Tabassum moves a longish application under Sec 22 (A and B) against members of her own family, accusing her sister-in-law of running her as a demimondaine (French for the oldest profession), but laying stress on a singular circumstance that the local MNA, yours truly, subjected her to criminal assault (the word rape sounds jarring if used too often) in May this year, using force and violence and threatening her with dire consequences should she open her mouth.
This puts me in the distinguished company of Dominique Strauss-Kahn…with some important distinctions. In Strauss-Kahn’s case the scene of the action is New York’s Sofitel Hotel, a suite there putting you back by $3000 a night; the scene of the alleged thriller in my case is my bazaar house in Chakwal, its entrance lined by a row of shops. Enter or leave and you will be noticed by at least a score of people.
The second difference is that whereas Strauss-Kahn’s accuser had contacted the police immediately, my femme fatale is three months late, that too after the registration of a criminal case against her. I am not mentioning a third difference: I wasn’t about to enter the French presidential race. In the French case, there was some medical evidence to go by. In this case, no medical evidence, no witnesses. Just the word of the Mata Hari.
But how could a mere girl bring such an accusation against a sitting MNA? Where there’s smoke there must be a fire, I can hear armchair cynics say. As a permanent member of the club of cynics myself, I can appreciate this line of argument. Except for some telling circumstances, also worthy of consideration.My opponents, and their number is not small, jump quickly into the fray. Their hirelings in the local press start working overtime to spread word of the MNA’s involvement in such a heinous crime. What is the world coming to?
And the Venus from Langah (her village) finds herself with strong legal help from the local bar. Pushing her application are three leading lawyers: Amin, Shaidy Shah and Amir Butt, all Q League stalwarts, Amin having been additional advocate general Punjab and Shaidy Shah an assistant advocate general when Ch Pervaiz Elahi was chief minister. Amir Butt, an able civil lawyer, was a local nazim, again a pillar of the Q League.These lawyers don’t touch a piece of paper without commanding hefty fees. They are not known for doing anything pro bono, this just not being their style. And here for nothing, for no money at all, they hasten to the assistance of a young girl whose virtue and honour were violated by the local MNA: very touching. In the local bar these lawyers are known as members of the Z Group. Now what does Z stand for in Urdu? I’ll have to look this one up in the dictionary.
Most of the local press, knowing what is what, and having a fair idea of Ms Tabussam’s background, observes restraint. But a small group of ultra-loyalists to my Q League opponents consider this a heaven-sent opportunity, not to be missed. As that old Turkish proverb goes, you can shut the gates of the mightiest fortress but not the mouths of your enemies.
Still, there should be no hard feelings on this score. Politics is not a game for the delicate or the timid. When frustrated opponents get a chance they will be sure to exploit it. The analogy is far-fetched, and I am not making any pompous comparisons, but when Clinton was accused of his affair with Monica Lewinsky, the Republican hard-core just wanted to bring him down. Rats will be rats and your opponents will do what they can.
Even from Ms Tabussam’s point of view this strategy is ingenious for it distracts attention from her own case and focuses it on the MNA’s exploits.
And Fauzia Behram reserved-seat MPA from the PPP, affectionately called ‘Phuppi’ (auntie) in local PPP circles, and famous for her wrestling prowess in the Punjab Assembly (she was again in the news recently for felling a woman member from the other side to the ground…I wouldn’t want to be on her wrong side) rushes to Langah, promises Ms Tabassum something from the Bait-ul-Maal, and shouts that no one is above the law. I await with trepidation her next move.Last time Auntie got angry with me she accused me at a public meeting in Thaneel Kamal (this was a year ago) of having an affair with a 23 year old girl. Her niece, Palwasha Khan, reserved-seat PPP MNA, said I should be flattered. I said let me at least have the girl’s telephone number. She gave a half smile and walked away. Palwasha is pretty and intelligent, beauty and brains. But I suppose there is no choosing one’s aunts.
An affair with a 23 year old indeed…I’d be a happy soul, counting my blessings, if a tenth of these charges were true. I know my own worth in this field. A mirror does not lie. One cannot fake being a Casanova or a ladies’ man: one is or one isn’t. I wouldn’t mind all the slander in the world provided I could convince myself – I am not interested in convincing others – that there was something to all this after all.
I would then not “…all alone beweep my outcast state, And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries, And look upon myself, and curse my fate…Desiring this man’s art and that man’s scope…” I would have a wicked glint in my eyes.
In this particular case my frustration stems from something else. The Italian prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, has been accused of an affair with the 17-year old Moroccan girl known as Ruby, very tempting and very exciting. From the photos I have seen of Ms Tabussam, my curiosity aroused after her application, not even her fiercest friends would accuse her of resembling Berlusconi’s Moroccan flame. This is what rankles.If I am even remotely guilty of criminally assaulting Ms Tabassum, or anyone like her, then there should be no hope for me, and no clemency. For I would be guilty not only of a criminal offence, a serious matter in itself, but of something far worse in the eyes of the initiated: an appalling and unforgivable lack of taste.
A violation of the law, and a serious one at that, is only worth it if the prize be sufficiently tempting. Far be it from me to run down a lady, any lady, especially one from the demi-monde – I never do that, having always considered the oldest profession to be a necessary adjunct to the human condition – but rape, and on Ms Tabussam?
This is to paint me as a desperate man, bereft of choices. I feel insulted.
Dear All
Cheers
Fawad
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On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 11:44 PM, ihsan dawar <ihsan...@yahoo.com> wrote:
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It is really shameful act not only for us as a journalist but also as a
nation as well.
well Special Vigilance Unit (SVU) of Pakistan News Network
International is ready to help out the innocent girl and will raise the
voice on all mediums.
Regards,
Roy Farooq Ahmad
Director Vigilance
Special Vigilance Unit (SVU)
Pakistan News Network International (PNNI)
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What a shameful act.For God sake can any one tell me why we have been
degaraded morally as a nation,if it is reality?
IHSAN DAWAR
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On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 1:58 PM, bilal yamin <bilaly...@gmail.com> wrote:
Mr Gulzar
AOA
These are serious allegations and one should not go to the extent of some one's
parents;
At times I wonder what is wrong with our educated Lot,who cross all limits;Look at
the Advocates they are beating the police/ judges every other day??????
Where are we Going???? Is this our up bringing as Muslims Islam teaches us to cautious
in our Accusations/allegations? Let the Court decide the Case we must obey the law?
I fully endorse the views of PJ MIR
regards
Muhammad Shahbaz EME CHS Multan road,lahore. 0301-3667777 --- On Mon, 8/29/11, gulzar khan <khangu...@gmail.com> wrote: |
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Mr. Raza Hussain you are forgetting your Hero's name. He is not mir , he is amir (ameer) ayaz amir. and respected Mis Hina Zafar it is not matter of having press conference holding Quran, the real issue is, that we journalists highlight such issues (associated with Politicians) but you see, how clever we are, we can neglect any of such issue when politician is journalist, because we are journalist. Cheers |
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Mr. Gulzar, PJ Mir should have known about Ayaz Amir's back ground,as he can't be so ignorant and I am sure everybody knows but they are defending him because they are journalists. So far Ayaz Amir's father is concerned, even it's true but we shouldn't discuss him as he is no more. I think this(sexual assault) is an important issue and we should take it up as seriously as we do with any other non journalist politician. and yes you are very much right that we should ignore his columns as these so called scholars always took shelter of this noble profession. but still it's very sad that our streamline journalists' attitude is
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daily times Rape case ordered against PML-N MNA, six others CHAKWAL: Chakwal Additional District and Sessions Judge Asghar Khan ordered City Police on Tuesday to register a case against PML-N MNA Ayaz Amir and six others for sexual assault on a 15-year-old married girl, Tabasum Farooq. --- On Mon, 8/29/11, Imtiaz Gul <imt...@gmail.com> wrote: |
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So which forum you want to use to talk about these people. You people are OK to discuss Mukhtaran Mai in this forum but when it's matter of a Journalist you don't want to discuss him on journalist forum???Mr. Saeed its unfortunate that "senior" people like you are either quiet or defending him with no reason.and as you said mudslinging, I think you should think about this when you people go on extreme,talking about journalist politics, unions and journalist groups on this forum. This is not mudslinging Fawad --- On Wed, 9/7/11, sminhas <smin...@gmail.com> wrote: |
SPECIALLY FOR AYAZ AMIR
Shame on you Ayaz Amir, You crashed your own image with involvement to sexually assault a young married girl. It was shocked me to know the peoples like you acctually having bad character and became devil.
I have been appreciating your writting so far though I have 3500 articles on my credit and author of three books but your involvement in the this case made me hopeless.I was pressed to think there are many faces of the peoples who pose themselve as sagacious.
Would you like to mention why Chakwal Additional District and Sessions Judge Asghar Khan ordered City Police to register a case against you and six others for sexual assault on a 15-year-old married girl, Tabasum Farooq.
It is encourag that Special Vigilance Unit (SVU) of Pakistan News Network International announced that it is ready to help out the innocent girl and will raise the voice on all mediums. Once again would like to say that the peoples like Ayaz Amir who was enjoying a good reputation as not only journalist but politician too crashed himself his Idot. He should come out and to face court proceding.
Syed Yousuf Ali
Senior Sub Editor
daily Jang
On Wed, 9/7/11, Hina Zafar <drhi...@gmail.com> wrote: |
dear ch you are really nice and loving guy but i am sure you know nothing about ayaz amir.i myself respected him very much but after exposing his real face(not now but 1 and half year ago)i was shocked .but the fact is fact.the persons like you,should not protect him but narrate the reality and the realty is very bitter. --- On Thu, 8/9/11, asif bashir <asifba...@hotmail.com> wrote: |
Nabeel Minhas on The Verdict This is happening in my beloved Chakwal where well-known columnist and MNA of PML-N Ayaz Amir dwells. Let me first say I have considered Amir a great teacher but even the greatest teacher is not a divine figure who is above wrongdoing or exempt from criticism. A local court on Tuesday ordered City Police of Chakwal to register a criminal case against Ayaz Amir including five others for sexually assaulting a fifteen-year-old girl. Additional District and Sessions Judge Mohammad Asghar Khan while delivering his verdict on Tabussam F’s petition directed the police to book Ayaz Amir, Raja Azhar, Farooq Qasai, Murtaza Bhutto, Naseem alias Komal and Jamshed. Tabussam filed a petition before the court on August 10 alleging that she was sexually assaulted by Ayaz Amir, Farooq Qasai and Murtaza Bhutto four months ago on the will of her husband Jamshed and her sister-in-law Komal as they both used to use her as a call girl. She also alleged in her application that Ayaz Amir raped her at his house. She further accused her in-laws of forcing her into adultery. In her petition she alleged that she went to City Police Station to register a case against Ayaz Amir and others but nobody heard her cries there. Talking to me, Qazi Ameen, the council of Ms Tabussam said that to registered an FIR was the basic right of every citizen. But Tabussam got this basic right after a tough struggle of four months because her culprits were a sitting MNA and a journalists. He further said that police should register FIRs on the complaint of every citizen.
In his recent article Mr Amir alleged that Qazi Ameen had served as an Advocate General of Punjab in the pervious regime of PML Q and he was fighting the baseless case of Tabussam to degrade him. But refuting such kind of allegations, Ameen said that he was just doing his professional duties. Talking about the litigant he said that the father of Tabussam was a handicapped person.
He further said that Tabussam was married despite being a minor.
Ameen claims that Jamshed’s sister Komal then took his young wife Tabussam to the house of Ayaz Amir, assuring her that the PML-N MNA could get rid of her from the case.
Ameen further claimed that over the next few days, Komal presented Tabussam to three other persons who also assaulted her. Ameen said:
According to him, Ayaz Amir and other accused persons found out that Tabussam was trying to register a case against them, so they concocted a drama to silence her. A case of robbery and kidnapping was registered against Tabussam, her handicapped father and brother. How could a fifteen years old girl along with her paralysed father rob her in-laws and kidnap her husband” Repeated attempts have been made to get the version Ayaz Amir but he could not be contacted. However his son Shah Nawaz termed the allegations levelled by Tabussam against his father as “baseless and false”. Amir has denied the allegations in a newspaper column saying that he had been insulted by associating with a girl who belongs to a demimonde family. But no major newspapers dared publish a story covering Tabussam. Even the Tuesday verdict registering a rape case against Ayaz Amir and five others failed to get a space in the leading dailies of Pakistan. It’s not that they do not have their correspondents in Chakwal. They do have correspondents but the adjectives like moral courage, principled journalism and objectivity are the things which even major media houses still lack. On Wednesday, Amir called a small press conference in which he invited only a few journalists. Not a single correspondent of leading Urdu and English dailies was invited including the Chairman of Chakwal Press Club. My point is only this: when the state gives a right to register an FIR to every citizen, why was Tabussam denied this right? The credibility of the case was to be decided by the court but why wasn’t the case registered? Why has a deadly silence gripped the editors of the major English and Urdu dailies of Pakistan? That is Nabeel point of view and I am glad that some people still have courage to speak truth. Journalists' might have their reasons to keep themselves quiet on this matter but still I want to ask where are you Hamid Mir ? How about Talat Hussain are you no more there to speak on such issues? Where is Ansaar Abbassi, can't you come forward with an "investigative" story? Why you people are quiet? For our Famous Anchors' Zulfiqar Mirza's holding Quran really means to them , they can wait for hours for Altaf Hussain's Press Conference but why they are silent when this girl holding Quran declared that she was sexually abused by Ayaz Amir. Our Journalists are always ready to scandalize any politician but,... because Ayaz Amir is Politician + Journalist so our media can't speak on this issue. --- On Fri, 9/9/11, S.M.K Durrani <click...@hotmail.com> wrote: |
yes. you are right but it is bitter fact that our media in not ,,free,, as claimed.i ll not comments because i have some personal differences with mr ayaz amir but only one is is much surprising for me,where is ,,khadm e ahhla,,shehbaz shareef?he must have taken notice of this case and also must have visit the girl,s home. to my knowledge,police has disposed off the case just because of the political pressure.now the under age girl is going to supreme cour to protest,in case of falour,she says that she will sucide in front of the court.so the media will have to wait for the ,,breaking news,, --- On Fri, 23/9/11, Fawad Akhter <fawad...@yahoo.com> wrote: |