A Pakistani news anchor brought her minor daughter to the news studio to make a point about how she felt as a mother in the aftermath of the rape and murder of a 7-year-old girl in Pakistan's Kasur district. Kiran Naz, anchor of Samaa TV, started the live show by saying "Aaj main ek mezbaan nahi hun, aaj main ek maa hoon isiliye main apni bachi ke saath baithi hun"( Today I am not an anchor. I am here as a mother that's why I am sitting here with my daughter)
Naz, then goes on to talk about the brutal rape and murder of the minor girl Zainab and uses strong words against the perpetrators who committed the crime.
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In a monologue, Naz says: "It is said that the smaller the corpse, the heavier it feels. Today, a small corpse is lying on the streets of Kasur and entire Pakistan is crushed under its weight... This is not her funeral but the funeral of entire humanity."
Taking a dig at the system, Naz says: "There will be investigation, enquiry, a committee will be set up, but she doesn't need all these. The truth is god will give her justice when the perpetrators will be helpless."
Hundreds of enraged protestors clashed with the police on Wednesday over the rape and murder of the minor girl.
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Dawn News quoted police officials as saying that riots erupted after the postmortem report of the seven-year-old girl confirmed that she was raped before being murdered.
Two people died of gunshot injury when the protesters "armed with sticks and stones attempted to storm the deputy commissioner's office and clashed with police", it said, adding that two others sustained bullet injuries.
The Punjab administration said that six personnel, including four policemen and two civil defence personnel, were arrested for allegedly opening fire at the mob.
Zainab, 7, was abducted on January 4 when she had gone to a religious centre in Road Kot area.
Later, her body was recovered from a heap of trash near the Shahbaz Khan Road.
Her parents, who were in Saudi Arabia to perform Umrah, arrived in Islamabad on Tuesday and laid her body to rest in a graveyard.
(With ANI inputs)
