In Pada Chinar area of Karam district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, many women have been ‘targeted with short guns’ during the last two months. According to the police, it is likely that this is being done to prevent women from coming to the markets.
Muhammad Imran, district police officer of Karam, told Independent Urdu that ‘targeting of women started during the last two months and so far eight such incidents have come to light.’
Mohammad Imran said that women were targeted with short guns, which injured women, but no one died in these incidents.
He added that these women were targeted in the streets behind the markets and what has been revealed so far is that it is highly likely that some ‘radical’ people are preventing women from coming to the market.
According to District Police Officer Muhammad Imran, “Our investigation is ongoing in this regard, but no arrest has been made in this matter so far, but we are trying.”
Mohammad Imran said that ‘these incidents were revealed about 20 days ago, but after that no incident of attack has been revealed while short guns have been used in all the incidents.’
What is the position of the representative organization of Pada Chanar?
The majority population in Pada Chinar is Shia Muslims and Anjuman Hussainiya is the representative organization of Pada Chinar.
Focal person of the same organization, Ali Jawad, told Independent Urdu that “We have strongly condemned the attacks on women and will involve our help with the police in exposing those involved in these incidents.”
He said that these incidents are not happening in urban areas but in uninhabited areas outside the city and the government and we are in touch with the police and we hope that soon the accused will be arrested and punished.
Irshad Hussain Turi, a local journalist of Para Chinar, told Independent Urdu that these incidents had definitely come to light, but here women are going to educational institutions and there is no such problem.
He said that ‘in Para Chinar, women usually go out in bapurda and niqab and go to markets with a man from their house for necessary work.’
Irshad Hussain said that ‘now the situation is normal and no incident has come out for the last two or three weeks.’
What do the women of the area say?
Saima Begum (pseudonym) belongs to Para Chinar area of Karam district and she is a teacher by profession.
According to Saima, she ‘knows three of the women who were victims of the air gun and has helped in the treatment of one of these women.’
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He told Independent Urdu that ‘when these incidents first started coming to light, a rumor was spread in the area that these women were involved in some immoral activities.’
According to Saima, ‘this was the reason why these women did not report these incidents to the police in the initial incidents due to the fear and fear of defamation.’
He said that initially this was spread but when one woman was targeted when she was with her husband and another was targeted with her father, this was proved to be a lie and people became alert. are that all women are being targeted in the markets.’
Saima Begum added that ‘there is still fear within women because obviously when women are targeted in this way, there will be fear.’
He further said that ‘I myself am a married woman and my place of duty is at a walking distance, but the reason for fear is that other colleagues, including me, have hired a car for themselves.’
When Saima Begum was asked that ‘the women who have been victimized by air guns, did those women go to the markets alone?’
In response to this question, he said that ‘I know of two incidents in which one woman was accompanied by her husband and in the other, her father also went to the market for some important work, but they were also shot with an air gun in the market. was targeted.’
