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'Humanity Is Dead': Pakistani Anchor Hosts Bulletin With Daughter To Protest 8-Yr-old's Rape, Murder

Darpan News Desk IANS, 11 Jan, 2018 01:21 PM

    The rape and murder of eight-year-old Zainab a week ago in Pakistan's Kasur has left a nation shocked and angry. Amid protests on the streets and on social media, a Pakistani anchor has touched hearts with an unusual gesture.

     

    Last evening, Kiran Naz of Pakistan's Samaa TV presented the news with her little daughter sitting on her lap, conveying a parent's grief.

     

    "Today I am not Kiran Naz. Today I am a mother. That's why I am sitting with my daughter," Ms Naz said in her brief introduction before the channel's 7pm news bulletin on Wednesday.

     

    The 1.50 minute long monologue by Naz sees her condemn the rapes and murders that plague the country. “It is true when they say that the smallest coffins are the heaviest and entire Pakistan is burdened by the weight of her coffin.”

     
     

    The alleged rape and murder of the 8-year-old girl triggered violent protests in Punjab province that left two people dead in police firing on Wednesday.

     

    Kasur town, located a short distance from the border with India, had been tense after the girl disappeared on January 4 while on her way home from a tuition centre. Her parents were away on a pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia, and her family circulated CCTV footage on social media that showed her with an unidentified man. Reports said the girl was allegedly raped multiple times before being strangled.

     

    In the news bulletin, Naz points out the sad irony, that while the girl’s parents were praying for their daughter’s long life in Saudi Arabia and buying her toys, a “monster in Pakistan was raping her and throwing her body in trash. This is not just a child’s rape and murder. This is the entire society’s murder.”

     

    Naz goes on to say that the 8-year-old’s rape and murder will once again initiate regret, investigation, committess, commission, enquiry and suo moto but, “the truth is that the girl does not need your justice. She will get justice by her God on Judgement Day when she questions her death and asks her fault.”

     
     

    The girl’s father, on returning to Pakistan on Wednesday, told the media that he would not bury her till justice was done.

     

    Naz ends the bulletin by saying that it is not just the girl who is dead, the whole of humanity died with her.

     

    The man who killed her is still roaming free, which provoked deadly riots in Kasur, in which two protesters were killed.

     

    On social media, people are using the hashtag #JusticeforZainab to express their anger.

     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     

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