Teenage Hindu girl Pooja Kumari shot dead in Sukkur, suspect arrested

Sukkur (Web Desk) -An 18-year-old young lady from the Hindu community was gunned down on Monday close the Chhuahra Mandi region of Sukkur, the police said.

According to Sukkur Station House Officer (SHO) Bashir Jagirani, the attacker — distinguished as Wahid Bux Lashari — and two of his accessories broke into Pooja Kumari’s house and opened fire on her. Authorities said Lashari needed to wed the young person but she refused.
The victim’s father, Sahib Oad, held up a to begin with data report (FIR) against the suspects beneath Area 34 (acts done by a few people in assistance of common purposeful), Area 302 (discipline for kill), and 337H(ii) (discipline for harmed by hasty or careless act) of the Pakistan Correctional Code.
The police captured Lashari nowadays and displayed him some time recently a nearby court, which along these lines remanded him into police guardianship for 10 days. Kumari’s kill drew condemnation on social media, with #JusticeforPooja trending on Twitter.

Teenage girl Pooja Kumari has been brutally murdered today as she resisted an abduction and forced conversion attempt in Rohri, Sindh. Puja, hats off to your courage & strength.
Where are the provincial & federal govts?Police? Parliament?Courts? This can’t be allowed to continue. pic.twitter.com/aakoKPpaZ2

— Ayaz Latif Palijo (@AyazLatifPalijo) March 21, 2022

Activist and attorney Jibran Nasir censured the common specialists, saying: “Beneath the PPP government, child marriage laws aren’t worth more than the paper they’re printed on. “Doors to constrained transformation of minor young ladies are open since child relational unions are encouraged by degenerate and uninformed [authorities],” he added.

Under #PPP Govt. Child Marriage laws aren’t worth more than paper they’re printed on. Doors to forced conversion of minor girls are open because Child Marriages are facilitated by corrupt & ignorant JoPs, Nikah Registrars, UCs & Police. #PoojaKumari a child had to defend her self pic.twitter.com/63iNI1aPhS

— M. Jibran Nasir 🇵🇸 (@MJibranNasir) March 22, 2022

Nobel Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai’s father Ziauddin called the kill “appalling” and a “intolerable wrongdoing”, including that “we all must talk up to request equity for the bravest Pooja Kumari.”

This is disgusting. Heinous crime indeed.
We all must speak up to demand justice for the bravest #PoojaKumari https://t.co/kgXceNA4st

— Ziauddin Yousafzai (@ZiauddinY) March 21, 2022