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SWAT: The Anti-Terrorism Court, Swat, on Monday acquitted a number of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf worke
SWAT: The Anti-Terrorism Court, Swat, on Monday acquitted a number of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf workers from Shangla district in terrorism cases registered against them following the May 9, 2023 mayhem. Former provincial minister Shaukat Yousafzai, former National Assembly candidate Haji Syed Farin, tehsil chairman Waqar Ahmad Khan and PTI Shangla vice-president Gul Hamroz were among those acquitted. They were indicted in May 9, 2023 riots in Alpuri, the district headquarters of Shangla. A PTI legal team pleaded the case for the activists. The differently-abled persons demonstrated here on Monday demanded increasing their quota in jobs to 10 per cent. They gathered in front of the Swat Press Club, where president of Swat Disabled Forum Ghulam Ahad, chairman Syed Zulfiqar Ali and others addressed them. The protesters held banners and placards in favour of their demands. They highlighted that though legislation regarding the rights of persons with disabilities had been enacted in both the provincial and national assemblies, the laws had not been implemented effectively. “Despite the KP Persons with Disabilities (Rights, Rehabilitation & Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities) Act, 2017 being passed from the provincial assembly, we are still denied our rights,” they said, adding the non-implementation of the legislation had caused significant hardships for differently-abled persons. They deplored that their repeated calls for rights had gone unheard. “A monthly stipend should be allocated for those who are unable to work, and business opportunities should be provided to those who are able to work,” the protesters demanded. They also demanded that educated individuals with disabilities be given jobs according to their qualifications. “The job quota for persons with disabilities should be increased to 10%, and those who are not yet included in the Benazir Income Support Programme should be enrolled,” they demanded, adding that their economic marginalisation must end. Furthermore, they said the local office of Pakistan Baitul Mal had allocated Rs30,000 annually for each person with a disability, but they had not yet received the amount. They demanded of the social welfare department to take notice of the matter.
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 and taken into ‘protective custody’ by local police to save him from mob lynching in Umerkot district. Later, police had taken him to Mirpurkhas but the next day he was in, what they later declared, “an encounter”. The body was handed over to his heirs but a mob emerged again and desecrated and torched it. A large number of people, including members of various nationalist groups, lawyers and civil society activists, on Sunday visited the bereaved family to condole the death and called it a “gruesome murder” in police custody. They expressed their sympathies and solidarity with the family and assured them of their full support in getting them justice. They laid floral wreath and on his temporary grave and offered his funeral prayers in absentia. Family demands capital punishment to policemen who killed Dr Shah Nawaz Kunbhar ‘in custody’ Speaking to the media, civil society activists demanded the formation of a joint investigation team (JIT) to ascertain facts about the whole episode. They also demanded that the entire police team involved in the “so-called encounter” should be hanged to death and their officers who failed to let the matter proceed according to law must be punished. They condemned that Dr Kunbhar was allowed to be subjected to mob justice. His body should be exhumed, given proper bath and buried according to Islamic rites as he was a true Muslim, they said. Mohammad Saleh Kunbhar, the victim’s father, wailing over his son’s brutal killing, told the visitors and the media that Shah Nawaz kept shouting that his social media account was hacked to post the blasphemous material but the mob of fanatics did not pay any heed. The fanatics, he added, also tried to lynch his driver, Prem Kolhi, while he was bringing the body by car. They tried to torch the car with the body and driver but Kolhi managed to escape their wrath, Saleh Kunbhar said. “Our women, youths and children had been under serious threat since the first mob attack as the fanatics were out to kill us,” he said, urging the authorities concerned to fulfil their duty of ensuring the protection to the life and property of citizens from these “death squads”. Dr Kunbhar’s brothers, Babar and Advocate Junaid, told the visitors that the support being expressed by the civil society today was more needed when the mob was bent upon lynching their brother and had gone on the rampage in the entire Umerkot district. Advocate Junaid said that before being attacked by the mob, Shah Nawaz kept defending himself by explaining that his mobile phone was misused by someone. They noted that blasphemous material was being sent to his SIMs, WhatsApp and Instagram accounts even after they were turned off. He deplored that the fanatics did not heed any of his brother’s explanations. “Why did the police and security agencies not check the social media accounts when such material was seen and these platforms were being used to incite mob justice, violence and extremism?” they asked. Jeay Sindh Qaumi Mahaz chairman Aslam Khairpuri and its another leader Dr Niaz Kalani, and Rawadari Tehreek leader Punhal Sario told the media that Dr Shah Nawaz Kunbhar was not given his right to be heard by a court of law. They deplored that police had saved him from mob lynching but then eliminated him in cold blood. Dr Kunbhar’s widow and mother registration of a murder FIR case all members of the police team that killed him in their custody. They also demanded a judicial inquiry into the whole episode. “My son was a true Muslim; he was a topper in the medical university he studied in,” the mother said, and moaned that his body was not allowed to be buried in their ancestral graveyard. Dr Kunbhar’s widow said her husband used to teach the holy Quran to young children. “How could he indulge in blasphemy?” she asked. “We cooperated with the police when they came to arrest him; and we were satisfied that he would remain in safe custody till the matter was fairly investigated. But the police cheated us and killed him in cold blood,” she said, adding that killers of her husband must be awarded death sentence.
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