ISLAMABAD – Rejecting the second medical report about Shazia’s death, Senate Standing Committee on Minorities’ sub-committee on Monday called all the doctors involved in treating her to appear before the committee in its next meeting.
Shazia, 13-year-old Christian girl, had been allegedly killed by her employer, a Lahore based lawyer, in January 2010. The case is being heard in the Lahore High Court at present after suspects’ acquittal from the session court. Allama Iqbal Medical College Lahore Principal Professor Javed Akram told the committee that there were more than 13 wounds on Shazia’s body when she was brought to the hospital for treatment.
He also told that medical report suggested that septicemia was the cause of her death, which is a kind of infection that could occur owing to wounds or injuries.
Senator Nelofar Bukhtyar, sub-committee chairman, said, “If the septicemia was the real cause of Shazia’s death, the question is who injured her and cut her body,” adding that it was a humanitarian issue, which could not be ignored.
She said that Shazia’s family was poor and could not afford hefty fees of a good lawyer and the sub-committee would write a letter to the Ministry of Human Rights to arrange funds for hiring a lawyer to contest Shazia’s case.
Talking to Pakistan Today Nelofar said that the whole affair of Shazia’s death had been manipulated because the lawyer, who had been accused of murdering Shazia, was very influential person.
