In Shazia Khalid's words
"I was r@p3d in my bedroom, at the official hospital staff residence.
When we asked the police about the evidence they found there, they confessed that they hadnt even sealed the room. Countless people came and went and tampered with anything that could be regarded as evidence and destroyed it. My clothes were taken from me under the supervision of a Sister, and even those items of clothing have vanished. How on earth would they conduct an investigation when they destroyed most of the evidence? The PPL bears huge responsibility in this."
"The good news, he said, was that the real culprit had been arrested. But the bad news was that five armed men had been sent from Bugti House to come after us and kill us, apparently on the orders of Sardar Akbar Bugti, a tribal leader in Sui. (Sardar Akbar Bugti
claims that his intention was to avenge her.) The best thing would be for us to leave Pakistan instantly.
The army could not offer us a safe house. Of course we were naïve we realise now that these were all ploys to panic us into getting us out of the country.
Frankly, we have been hoodwinked by the authorities, who pretended to work in our interest but just wanted to get us to leave the country."
1971 and Shazia Baloch. 2 sides of the same coin.
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