What Happened in Daska? by Ejaz Haider

[M Ali Khan]

So a case of badmash lawyers and badmash pulas-walay having a go at each other?!

WHAT HAPPENED IN DASKA?

Lawyers set fire to the checkpoint entrance of the Punjab Assembly in Lahore, May 26, 2015. Arif Ali—AFP

A TIMELINE OF THE EVENTS THAT LED TO LAWYERS LEADING MASS PROTESTS ACROSS PUNJAB PROVINCE.

The killing of two lawyers by the police in Daska has led to mass protests by lawyers in all major cities of Punjab. Newsweek has tried to put together the sequence of events by talking to various sources. What follows is the gist of events of that fateful day as well as the background to how and why the incident happened.

On May 25, 2015 at around 12:00 noon, a scuffle took place in Daska between the police and some lawyers. The incident resulted in the killing of two lawyers. However, our sources say that the situation was already fraught because of an old rift between the lawyers and Daska police.

Some two weeks ago, a police party had raided the premises of the Tehsil Bar (Daska) to apprehend a proclaimed offender alleged to have been present in the building. Sources reveal that the lawyers resisted the arrest and told the police to not apprehend the PO from the premises of the bar. The issue created tension but was resolved.

The Tehsil Municipal Administration office has been shifted to a new building. Its old building has been occupied by some lawyers. The TMA wanted to re-occupy the building. This move was resisted by the lawyers. The TMA staff called for the police. The police tried to settle the issue but the lawyers, according to witnesses, misbehaved with the police personnel. The issue was again settled but tension continued to linger.

We now flash forward to May 25. On that day, the president of the Bar, Rana Khalid along with a client, Samiullah Advocate and Sarfraz Sahi Advocate, went to the TMA offices to register the birth certificate of his client. The TMA staff refused to register the birth since his Nikah Nama (marriage certificate) was not registered with the TMA.This led to hot words and a scuffle broke out between the lawyers and the TMA staff. A TMA clerk, Ch. Farooq, was beaten up by the lawyers. Ch. Farooq called the city Daska police station, located about 50 meters from the TMA office. The Station House Officer of City police station sent a bike patrol of two personnel to defuse and control the situation.

The policemen sent by the SHO could not handle the situation and informed the station whereupon the SHO himself went to the site. Sources say that Rana Khalid and his friends exchanged hot words with the SHO and also manhandled him. The SHO was later followed into the station by the lawyers.

The SHO, in order to disperse the lawyers, took his gunman’s weapon and fired an aerial burst. Upon this Advocate Irfan Chauhan abused the SHO and challenged him to fire straight at the lawyers instead of firing in the air. This enraged the SHO who then fired straight at the lawyers, injuring three of them, as also a passerby, named Khurram.

Later, Advocates Rana Khalid and Irfan Chauhan succumbed to their injuries while the other two injured were brought to Civil Hospital, Gujranwala.

Haider is editor of national-security affairs at Capital TV. He was a Ford Scholar at the Program in Arms Control, Disarmament and International Security at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C. He tweets @ejazhaider

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[M Ali Khan]

These lawyers have been out of control since that lawyers movement of 2007. They misbehave with police, slap judges, and even imprison magistrates in their own chambers, and of course who can forget them celebrating a murderer terrorist like Mumtaz Qadri

 

[PUNJABIMUNDANO1]

These lawyers have been out of control since that lawyers movement of 2007. They misbehave with police, slap judges, and even imprison magistrates in their own chambers, and of course who can forget them celebrating a murderer terrorist like Mumtaz Qadri

Police also do the same things ............. Are u justifying the Murder?

If lawyers misbehaved with the Police then the police must have registered a case against lawyers ... Police cannot kill someone in cold blood

 

[Pakistan Tiger]

Jo hua galat hua, is mein shaq nahi.

ISI ki kal report media par quote huti rahi. Pasha Party ka lawyer TMA, sy Police Station i. SHO sy batmeezi ki or vulgar galian di, phir SHO ko slap kia. SHO jat h, slap ki beazati kider bardshat karta thok dia.

Ganda culture h, Police Gardi or Wokla Gardi, must be ended

 

[Khurpainch]

What So ever the dispute was Would that justify ??

 

[Pakistan Tiger]

What So ever the dispute was Would that justify ??

Legally no, not at all.

Magar koi garat mand Maa Behan ki gali bardshat nahi karta, thapar ka to sawal peda nahi huta.

 

[M Ali Khan]

Police also do the same things ............. Are u justifying the Murder?

If lawyers misbehaved with the Police then the police must have registered a case against lawyers ... Police cannot kill someone in cold blood

Absolutely. the SHO should be tried for murder and punished accordingly for his poor judgement and temper issues.

At the same time lawyers should stay within their own auqat and dont take law into their own hands.

 

[PUNJABIMUNDANO1]

Jo hua galat hua, is mein shaq nahi.

ISI ki kal report media par quote huti rahi. Pasha Party ka lawyer TMA, sy Police Station i. SHO sy batmeezi ki or vulgar galian di, phir SHO ko slap kia. SHO jat h, slap ki beazati kider bardshat karta thok dia.

Ganda culture h, Police Gardi or Wokla Gardi, must be ended

And who is responsible of this Gunda Culture ...... Those who are ruling Pakistan for last 7 years or lawyers or police!

Shukar Karo Lawyers ki Shakal mein aik Gunda Gard group wajood mein ah gia warna police aur Siasatdaon ne tumhara wo hashar kerna tha ke yaad rakty

 

[Believer12]

ڈسکہ ٹی ایم اے کے تحت ریکارڈ روم میں انہوں نے بدمعاشی کرنی چاہی جیسا کہ انکا طرز عمل بن چکا ہے جب ریکارڈ روم میں موجود سٹاف نے انہیں ریکارڈ میں اپنی مرضی سے ہیرا پھیری اور رد وبدل سے روکنا چاہا تو انہوں نے قیمتی ریکارڈ اور پراپرٹی جو کروڑوں میں ہے جلا کر راکھ کر دی
بہادر انسپکٹر پولیس جو انکی بدمعاشی کے خلاف پہلا قطرہ ثابت ہوا ہے اسے فورا رہا کر کے تمغہ امتیاز سے نوازنا چاہئے جن بدمعاش وکیلوں نے کروڑوں کا نقصان کیا ہے انہیں گرفتار کر کے انکے خلاف دہشت گردی اور بد امنی ایکٹ کے تحت ایف آئ آر کاٹی جاۓ اور کالعدم تنظیموں کو وکالت کے شعبے سے دور رکھنے کیلئے سخت اقدامات اٹھاۓ جائیں

نہ صرف ممتاز قادری کیلئے انہوں نے اتحاد کر لیا تھا بلکہ انکے ایک سابق لاہور بار کے صدر نے بارہ سالہ بچی تشدد سے ہلاک کر دی تھی اس انہوں نے بدمعاشی سے اسطرح چھڑوایا کہ بچی کے ورثا کو عدالت کے باہر مار مار کر بھگا دیا اور اپنے بڑے بدمعاش کو استغاثہ کی غیر موجودگی میں زبردستی اٹھا کر لے گئے

یہ ہے ان جاہل جانوروں کا طرز عمل اور انصاف کا معیار

حکومت انکو فوری نتھ پٹا ڈالے ورنہ یہ ہر شہری کو کاٹیں گے ​

 

[PUNJABIMUNDANO1]

Absolutely. the SHO should be tried for murder and punished accordingly for his poor judgement and temper issues.

At the same time lawyers should stay within their own auqat and dont take law into their own hands.

First the investigation should be done who saved and appointed such a person as SHO who was already involved in a murder in past and had such a bad temper

 

[Believer12]

Shazia’s death and the shameful role of the lawyer fraternity


The torture and slaughter of Shazia, a 12-year-old maid, in DHA, Lahore has caused a stir. Here are a few reports which suggest that:
1. Domestic servants in Pakistan, house maids in particular, remain vulunerable and subject to physical, emotional and sexual abuse.
2. Life and honour of a non-Muslim (a Christian girl in this case) is usually treated as less valuable than life and honour of a Muslim citizen.
3. A degree in formal education (a degree in law in this case) and membeship in a professional association (bar association in this instance) do not guarantee that the recipients of formal education and professional affiliation will act as respectable human beings. The despicable role of the lawyer community in Lahore in support of Shazia’s killer is a case in evidence.

Unruly lawyers harass Shazia’s family, media: Source
Maid in hell
Yet another heinous violation of human rights glares at us blatantly in the face. 12-year-old Shazia Masih, a Christian domestic worker, was allegedly barbarically tortured and sexually abused by her employers, the lawyer Naeem Chaudhry (a former President of Lahore Bar Association) and his family, to finally succumb to the violence she was subjected to. The case has opened up a Pandora’s box of child labour and domestic abuse laws, atrocious inhumanity, immorally botched law enforcement and the criminal disregard for those who languish below the benchmark of influence.
The laxity practiced on the part of the police screams of corruption and a hefty degree of amnesty awarded the accused due to which the FIR was not registered until 24 hours after the report of the incident, thus allowing the lawyer and his family to flee. Even after this inexcusable delay in police proceedings, the officers involved procrastinated in organizing the required documentation for the necessary postmortem. Due to Naeem Chaudhry’s position as president of the Lahore Bar Association in 2006, he, and others like him, obviously wield a certain amount of influence on state institutions. Reports just coming in have indicated that the advocate has been apprehended; thanks to the immense media pressure and coverage, the authorities had no other option than to pull their socks up. Unfortunately, those whose job it is to haul up the perpetrators of crime are criminally unprincipled themselves. The police has shown that it is unscrupulously biased in the case of minority rights; money talks and justice walks. On the behest of an enraged media, the suspension of the concerned SHO from the Defence-A station is a welcome move, but closer scrutiny is needed of the police’s culture.
Surprisingly, the lawyer fraternity has vowed not to take any stance on the issue till the accused is found guilty and convicted; it makes one wonder why different standards exist where, as far as the NRO beneficiaries are concerned, they stand condemned before sentencing.
Furthermore, the inadequacy of domestic worker abuse and child labour laws in Pakistan needs addressing. Even if laws are passed, state institutions do nothing to implement them, especially in cases concerning women and children, causing a two-fold injustice: in homes and then at the hands of the authorities. Shazia’s case is one of extreme suffering at the hands of a socially privileged class who think nothing of the exploitation and abuse of those belonging to the other side of the economic divide. If the battered and mutilated body of a minor does nothing to pull at the heartstrings of an already disillusioned society, NGOs, civil rights groups and societies for the humane ought to pack up shop and go home and employ their efforts elsewhere, a place where human life is not so cheaply dispensable.
Source: Daily Times

Police said on Sunday they had arrested Advocate Chaudhry Naeem, the main accused in the case of murder of a 12-year-old maid, and five others…Chaudhry Naeem, a former president of the Lahore Bar Association, his son Yasir, a sister-in-law and a daughter-in-law have been nominated in the FIR….Amanat and his wife have been booked for providing the maid to Chaudhry Naeem.
Punjab’s Senior Minister Raja Riaz condemned the incident and said that Rs500,000 would be paid to the girl’s family on behalf of President Asif Ali Zardari.
It ‘s learnt that Shazia, a resident of Lyton Road, started working at Chaudhry Naeem’s house in DHA, Lahore about seven months ago on a monthly salary of Rs1,000. According to sources, she used to be severely beaten even for petty lapses.
Source: Dawn
Capital City Police Officer (CCPO) Muhammad Pervez Rathore told The News the main accused, Naeem Advocate and Amanat, have been arrested, and would be presented before the court on Monday (today).
Another senior police officer said the police have arrested Naeem Advocate, his son Yasir Naeem, daughter-in-law, brother-in-law, middle man Amanat and his wife, Ghafooran. However, none of the accused was locked up at Defence-A police station till filing of the report. The arrest of the accused persons was also not registered at Defence-A police station till late Sunday night.
The victim’s family had alleged that the police were still showing leniency with the accused. The family said if the police had arrested the accused, they should be put behind the bars. The victim’s father said they would perform burial of Shazia only after seeing the accused behind the bars. He said the accused, Naeem, and his family should not be treated as guests at the police station or at the investigation centre.
Meanwhile, the Lahore Bar Association members have reportedly planned to file a writ petition of habeas corpus against the police for keeping Naeem Advocate’s two sisters and brothers-in-law in illegal detention. A senior police officer, requesting anonymity, said lawyers could use this tactic to exert pressure on the police. However, he said action was being taken under the law.
Meanwhile, a medical board comprising three doctors, headed by Mayo Hospital Medical Superintendent Dr Zahid Pervez, conducted autopsy on the body of Shazia. According to provisional autopsy report, there was a time lapse of 45 hours and 35 minutes between the death and autopsy. It has been reported that 16 injuries including incision wounds were found on different parts of the dead body. The wounds were skin deep ranging from 3 to 6 cm. Liver, heart, lungs, etc., were found normal. The report said there was no rib fracture, and signs of rape were also not found. Samples of brain, lung, liver, spleen and muscle were sent for histopathology and chemical examination. It is also learnt that around 13 out of 16 wounds were inflicted with rusted weapon, while three wounds were inflicted with sharp-edged weapon. Medical board was of the view that the malnutrition and constant physical and mental torture could be the result of death of minor girl. However, the real cause of death would be ascertained after the report of chemical examiner and histopathology. The autopsy report showed that intoxicants were also given to the victim.
Misreporting by the accused could also be judged from the hospital record, collected by The News. According to the record, the victim was admitted to Medical Emergency of Jinnah Hospital Lahore at 11:51 pm on January 21, 2010. The accused got registered the name of Shazia’s father as Ansar, instead of Bashir Masih, and age 14 years instead of 12. The accused got admitted Shazia on the pretext that she was mentally retarded. The victim was shifted to Medical Unit-4 on Friday morning and she died at 2:15 pm on the same day (January 22, 2010).
A doctor at Jinnah Hospital, on the condition of anonymity, said the victim was received almost dead, as the artificial respiratory procedure was started soon after her admission.He said the victim should have been shifted to Surgical Ward due to fatal wounds, but as the accused lawyer had approached one of the professors of MU-4, the victim was shifted to that ward. At the time of admission, doctors of MU-4 were on duty at Medical Emergency, the doctor maintained. Moreover, three children of victim family were also recovered late at night.
Source: The News

 

[PUNJABIMUNDANO1]

Absolutely. the SHO should be tried for murder and punished accordingly for his poor judgement and temper issues.

At the same time lawyers should stay within their own auqat and dont take law into their own hands.

Where is law in this country?............ Do the police, Politicians and TMO officers follow law ?
If not then why to expect lawyers to follow Law

In villages Nikas are not often registered, in such cases the evidence from a Molvi or a respected personality from a village in most cases Lambordar is acceptable in law ... If TMO refused to registered the child birth... then this is not a simple issue , most probably the TMO did it on purpose

 

[PUNJABIMUNDANO1]

Shazia’s death and the shameful role of the lawyer fraternity


The torture and slaughter of Shazia, a 12-year-old maid, in DHA, Lahore has caused a stir. Here are a few reports which suggest that:
1. Domestic servants in Pakistan, house maids in particular, remain vulunerable and subject to physical, emotional and sexual abuse.
2. Life and honour of a non-Muslim (a Christian girl in this case) is usually treated as less valuable than life and honour of a Muslim citizen.
3. A degree in formal education (a degree in law in this case) and membeship in a professional association (bar association in this instance) do not guarantee that the recipients of formal education and professional affiliation will act as respectable human beings. The despicable role of the lawyer community in Lahore in support of Shazia’s killer is a case in evidence.

Unruly lawyers harass Shazia’s family, media: Source
Maid in hell
Yet another heinous violation of human rights glares at us blatantly in the face. 12-year-old Shazia Masih, a Christian domestic worker, was allegedly barbarically tortured and sexually abused by her employers, the lawyer Naeem Chaudhry (a former President of Lahore Bar Association) and his family, to finally succumb to the violence she was subjected to. The case has opened up a Pandora’s box of child labour and domestic abuse laws, atrocious inhumanity, immorally botched law enforcement and the criminal disregard for those who languish below the benchmark of influence.
The laxity practiced on the part of the police screams of corruption and a hefty degree of amnesty awarded the accused due to which the FIR was not registered until 24 hours after the report of the incident, thus allowing the lawyer and his family to flee. Even after this inexcusable delay in police proceedings, the officers involved procrastinated in organizing the required documentation for the necessary postmortem. Due to Naeem Chaudhry’s position as president of the Lahore Bar Association in 2006, he, and others like him, obviously wield a certain amount of influence on state institutions. Reports just coming in have indicated that the advocate has been apprehended; thanks to the immense media pressure and coverage, the authorities had no other option than to pull their socks up. Unfortunately, those whose job it is to haul up the perpetrators of crime are criminally unprincipled themselves. The police has shown that it is unscrupulously biased in the case of minority rights; money talks and justice walks. On the behest of an enraged media, the suspension of the concerned SHO from the Defence-A station is a welcome move, but closer scrutiny is needed of the police’s culture.
Surprisingly, the lawyer fraternity has vowed not to take any stance on the issue till the accused is found guilty and convicted; it makes one wonder why different standards exist where, as far as the NRO beneficiaries are concerned, they stand condemned before sentencing.
Furthermore, the inadequacy of domestic worker abuse and child labour laws in Pakistan needs addressing. Even if laws are passed, state institutions do nothing to implement them, especially in cases concerning women and children, causing a two-fold injustice: in homes and then at the hands of the authorities. Shazia’s case is one of extreme suffering at the hands of a socially privileged class who think nothing of the exploitation and abuse of those belonging to the other side of the economic divide. If the battered and mutilated body of a minor does nothing to pull at the heartstrings of an already disillusioned society, NGOs, civil rights groups and societies for the humane ought to pack up shop and go home and employ their efforts elsewhere, a place where human life is not so cheaply dispensable.
Source: Daily Times

Police said on Sunday they had arrested Advocate Chaudhry Naeem, the main accused in the case of murder of a 12-year-old maid, and five others…Chaudhry Naeem, a former president of the Lahore Bar Association, his son Yasir, a sister-in-law and a daughter-in-law have been nominated in the FIR….Amanat and his wife have been booked for providing the maid to Chaudhry Naeem.
Punjab’s Senior Minister Raja Riaz condemned the incident and said that Rs500,000 would be paid to the girl’s family on behalf of President Asif Ali Zardari.
It ‘s learnt that Shazia, a resident of Lyton Road, started working at Chaudhry Naeem’s house in DHA, Lahore about seven months ago on a monthly salary of Rs1,000. According to sources, she used to be severely beaten even for petty lapses.
Source: Dawn
Capital City Police Officer (CCPO) Muhammad Pervez Rathore told The News the main accused, Naeem Advocate and Amanat, have been arrested, and would be presented before the court on Monday (today).
Another senior police officer said the police have arrested Naeem Advocate, his son Yasir Naeem, daughter-in-law, brother-in-law, middle man Amanat and his wife, Ghafooran. However, none of the accused was locked up at Defence-A police station till filing of the report. The arrest of the accused persons was also not registered at Defence-A police station till late Sunday night.
The victim’s family had alleged that the police were still showing leniency with the accused. The family said if the police had arrested the accused, they should be put behind the bars. The victim’s father said they would perform burial of Shazia only after seeing the accused behind the bars. He said the accused, Naeem, and his family should not be treated as guests at the police station or at the investigation centre.
Meanwhile, the Lahore Bar Association members have reportedly planned to file a writ petition of habeas corpus against the police for keeping Naeem Advocate’s two sisters and brothers-in-law in illegal detention. A senior police officer, requesting anonymity, said lawyers could use this tactic to exert pressure on the police. However, he said action was being taken under the law.
Meanwhile, a medical board comprising three doctors, headed by Mayo Hospital Medical Superintendent Dr Zahid Pervez, conducted autopsy on the body of Shazia. According to provisional autopsy report, there was a time lapse of 45 hours and 35 minutes between the death and autopsy. It has been reported that 16 injuries including incision wounds were found on different parts of the dead body. The wounds were skin deep ranging from 3 to 6 cm. Liver, heart, lungs, etc., were found normal. The report said there was no rib fracture, and signs of rape were also not found. Samples of brain, lung, liver, spleen and muscle were sent for histopathology and chemical examination. It is also learnt that around 13 out of 16 wounds were inflicted with rusted weapon, while three wounds were inflicted with sharp-edged weapon. Medical board was of the view that the malnutrition and constant physical and mental torture could be the result of death of minor girl. However, the real cause of death would be ascertained after the report of chemical examiner and histopathology. The autopsy report showed that intoxicants were also given to the victim.
Misreporting by the accused could also be judged from the hospital record, collected by The News. According to the record, the victim was admitted to Medical Emergency of Jinnah Hospital Lahore at 11:51 pm on January 21, 2010. The accused got registered the name of Shazia’s father as Ansar, instead of Bashir Masih, and age 14 years instead of 12. The accused got admitted Shazia on the pretext that she was mentally retarded. The victim was shifted to Medical Unit-4 on Friday morning and she died at 2:15 pm on the same day (January 22, 2010).
A doctor at Jinnah Hospital, on the condition of anonymity, said the victim was received almost dead, as the artificial respiratory procedure was started soon after her admission.He said the victim should have been shifted to Surgical Ward due to fatal wounds, but as the accused lawyer had approached one of the professors of MU-4, the victim was shifted to that ward. At the time of admission, doctors of MU-4 were on duty at Medical Emergency, the doctor maintained. Moreover, three children of victim family were also recovered late at night.
Source: The News

Bro! Here u are showing biasness!
There are thousands of such cases of Police Brutality ....... Why not to share them?

 

[Believer12]

Bro! Here u are showing biasness!
There are thousands of such cases of Police Brutality ....... Why not to share them?

O mere sohneya punjabi mundya na behas kar, i dont say all but maojrity of lawers are bad guys in Pakistan, courts are full of victims due to their greed,yeh khud dates barhate hain case ko lamba karne k liye.
police corruption is obvious but my focus is on those who claimed to be a cream of Pakistan.

 

[M Ali Khan]

If TMO refused to registered the child birth... then this is not a simple issue , most probably the TMO did it on purpose

from the article

The Tehsil Municipal Administration office has been shifted to a new building. Its old building has been occupied by some lawyers. The TMA wanted to re-occupy the building. This move was resisted by the lawyers. The TMA staff called for the police. The police tried to settle the issue but the lawyers, according to witnesses, misbehaved with the police personnel. The issue was again settled but tension continued to linger.

 

[Khurpainch]

Legally no, not at all.

Magar koi garat mand Maa Behan ki gali bardshat nahi karta, thapar ka to sawal peda nahi huta.

Are We garat mand Nation ??

 

[Pakistan Tiger]

Are We garat mand Nation ??

Pakistani to 100% hein

Pappu Burgers ka pata nahi