Asian Human Rights Comission:
When a small lady weighing hardly 60 kilograms working for the betterment of poor slum-dwellers, and amongst the under-privileged in poorer residential areas, is viewed as a dire threat to the Taliban and the local administration, the sanity of these institutions, and those that man them, is called into question. However, with yesterday’s murder of Ms. Perveen Rehman, an even more fundamental question confronts us: the raison d’être of the Pakstani state itself.
Ms. Perveen Rehman, an architect by profession, was targeted and murdered in broad daylight yesterday, March 13th. Fifty-six years of age, having worked for the poor and underprivileged for 25 of them, Ms. Rehman was murdered close to her office as she arrived in a car. Armed men riding two motorcycles approached and opened fire on her. She was struck twice in the face and once in the neck. She was rushed to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital where she succumbed to her wounds.
It is believed that she was assassinated by Deobandi militants of Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamat (ASWJ). These are said to be the same militants responsible for the deaths of the four lady anti-polio workers and the attack on Malala Yusufzai.
Categories: Anger is Satan, Anti-Islam Attitude, Anti-Islam Campaign, Asia
Such a deeply saddening event. We knew Parveen personally as a tireless social activist who had survived the horrors of Mukti Bahni’s rape and massacre in the then East Pakistan and migrated to Pakistan in 1971. She served with dedication with a genuine sense of purpose the largest poor slum of Asia called Orangi. Those who killed her have no iota of humanity in them. May Allah bring upon them His wrath.
May her soul rest in peace. May God rid the world of these extremist monsters.