Cases Like Qandeel Baloch’s Murder Must Be Treated As Fasad-Fil-Arz: Fawad Chaudhry

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Cases like Qandeel Baloch’s murder must be treated as Fasad-Fil-Arz: Fawad Chaudhry

Urges court to punish accused in Qandeel Baloch murder case

Lahore (Pakistan Point News – 29th September, 2018) After the parents of slain Qandeel Baloch forgave the accused, their son Muhammad Wasim, for murdering their daughter, the information minister has requested the Punjab government to fully own the case.

When this came to the attention of Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry, he said that such cases must be treated as Fasad-Fil-Arz (corruption on earth).

He said that the court must reject such compromises and called for punishing the accused.

“Such cases must be treated as #Fasad-Fil-Arz in the interest of Public, Court must reject such compromises and proceed under the law, I call upon Punjb Govt to take full ownership of the case, accused must be punished,” Fawad Chaudhry tweeted.

The parents of accused Wasim had submitted their statement in the court asking for his bail.

The additional district and sessions’ court judge however rejected the bail plea of Primary accused in the Qandeel Baloch murder case, Muhammad Wasim.

In his petition, Wasim stated that the police implicated him in the case with malafide intention, pleading that the case would also take a long time to wind up, so keeping him in jail till the decision of the case was unjustified.

Pakistani controversial Model qandeel baloch was choked to death by her brother in July, 2016.

She had been living in her house in Muzaffarbad along with her family near Multan and had reported of being vulnerable to threats.

The scandals of the social media sensation with Maulana Mufti Abdul Qawi and her divorce caused the brother to burst out into rage consequently murdering his sister to save the honor of the family.

Mahnoor Sheikh

The writer is News Editor, Pakistan Point. She has graduated in Mass Communication and has worked in various media houses