EDUCATED MUSLIM MURDERER....
Sword of Laban
By Spero News
Sunday, February 07, 2010
Shazia Bashir, 12, was allegedly killed by her Muslim employer,
Chaudhry Muhammad Naeem, a wealthy lawyer, in Lahore, Pakistan, on
January 22.
Naeem is a former president of the Lahore Bar Association. Shazia had
been working for 8 months as a domestic
(child) worker at Defense Colony in Lahore. There are more around 10
million child laborers in Pakistan, where physical violence is common
at work.
Despite legislation such as the Employment of Children Act 1991, child
labor is on the rise because of increasing poverty,‘ the Pakistan
daily Dawn reported.
According to local media reports, statistics show that 70 per cent or
more female domestic servants suffer abuse in some form. All domestic
servants remain unprotected by labor laws with no regulations in place
as to their hours of work, leave of absence and other rights.
Shazia worked for only Rs1,000 (US$12) per month as a domestic worker
of that family which had been continuously tortured her. Her body was
badly maimed when she was brought to the Jinnah Hospital Lahore where
she died. According the local Christians, she was died after severe
tortured. She belonged to a very poor family and was their only source
of income. She had one younger brother of 8 years age while her two
elder sisters are married.
"We were not allowed to see her for a long time," her parents told the
media. The alleged killer tried to pressure her father to reach an
agreement with him and accept Rs. 20,000 (US$250) for the family's
silence in the matter.
After facing a Sindh Assembly members’ protest strong resistance from
the Shzia‘s family, the alleged perpetrator brought a police officer
to intimidate the family but the family did not relent in demanding
justice for their daughter‘s murder.
Christian leaders say that police did not apprehend the accused
because Shazia‘s family was poor and belongs to a religious minority
group. Many Christians and Muslims on Jan. 23 protested outside the
Punjab Assembly for hours, demanding action against the alleged
killers. Due to public pressure, a First Information Report (FIR) was
lodged by police after at least 18 hours following the protest.