Eid is an occasion of celebration and festivity but it was marred for some as they became victims of terrible violence.
In one incident, the eyes of a barber were pulled out in a horrific incident in the Okara district of Punjab. The man’s tongue and lips were also cut off by the culprits for allegedly having an affair with a girl.
Police sources said that in the Deepal Pur town of district Okara in central Punjab the barber, Mohammad Yousuf, was summoned by the father of the girl with whom Yousuf was allegedly having an affair. When he arrived, the father tortured Yousuf along with his other relatives and took out both his eyeballs. This dreadful act of vengeance did not stop here as the relatives proceeded to cut off his tongue and lips as well.
The police are cracking down to arrest the accused who still have not been apprehended. In a special directive, the chief minister of the province has ordered the police chief for the earliest arrest of the accused. He also ordered that Yousuf be moved to a government hospital in Lahore where his treatment would be carried out at the government’s expense.
In another incident of horrific violence, a tailor was also tortured on Tuesday and the accused shaved half of his head, eyebrows and moustache because of a delay in their clothes being sewn on the eve of Eid.
This took place in Multan district, where the tailor, Nawaz Irfan, was tortured by influential local men for delayed delivery of clothes for Eid. He was forced to ride a donkey after his face was blackened, a sign of disgrace in this region, by Mohammad Khan, a local influential man.
Irfan told the media that he delivered some of the clothes before Eid and some were left undone because of too much work and load-shedding. He called Khan for the payment after the Eid prayers and he was summoned to his home. When Irfan arrived, Khan, along with five accomplices, attacked him and later shaved off half his head, eyebrows and moustache. The local police said that they were investigating the matter and would proceed further in accordance with the law.
In another similar incident, the hair of a female stage dancer was cut off by a director for allegedly refusing to work with him. Sahiba Multani, the dancer, alleged that she was tortured and disgraced by Makki Qureshi. However, the police said the incident has not been reported to them so far.
