@guardian@zofeen28@PPP_Org Will @PPP_Org accept responsibility and take a stand? Will it be brushed under very expensive carpets @AseefaBZ@BakhtawarBZ ? Will it die down as it always does, without a sound? It probably will. The Bhutto contenders to Pak throne keep their twitter comments turned off. 10/n
@guardian Ms. Ebrahim @zofeen28 packs a punch indeed, albeit an angulated one.
Why she misses the sexual abuse part is worrying.
From Bhutto's political party @PPP_Org platform, various members of this 'Pir' family of Sindh are law makers at provincial & national level. 1/n
@guardian@zofeen28@PPP_Org So the blame is being neutralized by hiding the Rape & Murder angle and treating it as an unfortunate 'child employee accident' that may happen in any respectable household if the kid falls off a table while cleaning, or in a sweat shop, rampant in these regions. 9/n
@guardian@zofeen28@PPP_Org As if the post mortem report absolved the perpetrators, the Court in Sindh granted bail to all of them.
Now @BBhuttoZardari 's PPP will never abandon a loyal slave driver who brings in extortion funds and hundreds of thousands of slave votes. 8/n
@guardian@zofeen28@PPP_Org Social pressure led to victim's exhumation & post mortem.
It showed extensive long standing torture both physical & sexual, rape vaginal & anal, wounds in various stages of healing but never being allowed to. Mental, social, etc torture doesn't show up on the body of course. 7/n
@guardian@zofeen28@PPP_Org The PPP party leader @ShahNafisa condemns belatedly the 'cultural malpractices leading to maltreatment of child wage earners' in Pak.
Prominent Karachi-based journalists like @ZarrarKhuhro toed the line, defensively.
You'd think it was about low salary or getting shouted at. 6/n
@guardian@zofeen28@PPP_Org Police, forensics fabricate pictures, reports saying Pir is in custody & the girl was a victim of domestic abuse, a hot topic in Pak nowadays.
An offense usually attributed to housewives mean to underage employees. Thought more of as a cultural flaw, rather than a crime. 5/n
@guardian@zofeen28@PPP_Org They're told to bury her immediately. They can't ask questions, never have, never will, for generations. They're born slaves& they die slaves. Bhutto is live n kicking in Sindh.
After the video, social media pressure mounted. Some action was neeed. 4/n
@guardian@zofeen28@PPP_Org Two women suspecting her dead raise concerns, he lifts her by her throat, shaking her like a rag doll, checking for signs of life. Then drops her back on the floor and goes about his business.
The kid's parents are called to collect her body since she died of 'stomachache'. 3/n
@guardian@zofeen28@PPP_Org When this girl died, her parents were forced to bury her broken body hurriedly.
Then a video came out. Showing the last moments of the 9 year old, writhing in pain on the floor, naked, in the Pir's bedroom. The movement stops soon after. While he slept naked in the bed. 2/n
1/ Last night a health clinic was significantly damaged as the IF used it to enter Al Qibli mosque. The clinic is no longer able to provide care to the Palestinians it was serving daily. 100s in the mosque were arrested and health care teams denied access to treat the injured.