{"id":998,"date":"2016-03-14T04:55:15","date_gmt":"2016-03-14T04:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/morningpost.today\/eng\/?p=998"},"modified":"2016-03-14T07:44:36","modified_gmt":"2016-03-14T07:44:36","slug":"swat-civil-society-urge-sc-to-accelerate-proceedings-in-parveen-rehmans-murder-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morningpostnews.pk\/eng\/swat-civil-society-urge-sc-to-accelerate-proceedings-in-parveen-rehmans-murder-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Swat civil society urges SC to accelerate proceedings in Parveen Rehman’s murder case"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Fazal Khaliq\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

MINGORA: A number of civil society activists in Swat on Sunday marked the death anniversary of the renowned social worker, Parveen Rehman, who was murdered near her office in Orangi Town, Karachi, on March 13, 2013.<\/strong><\/p>\n

They also urged the Supreme Court to accelerate proceedings in the case to bring her killers to justice.<\/p>\n

Highlighting different aspects of Perveen Rehman\u2019s life at a gathering, Fazal Noor, a social worker, said that she wanted to work for the marginalised communities for which she quit her job and joined the Orangi Pilot Project run by Dr Akhtar Hamid Khan.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe challenged the well-off societies and started installation of underground gutter line for poor communities as carried out in planned societies. She did it by involving poor communities after motivating them to work in unity,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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He said that Ms Rehman fought with influential mafias with smile on her face. \u201cShe mobilised the poor communities towards their equal rights as enjoyed by rich, and she remained successful in her endeavours,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

However, he said that she was killed in daylight, but her killers were yet to be brought to justice.<\/p>\n

Shaukat Sharar, a social worker in Swat, said he got inspiration from Ms Rehman when he was her student. \u201cWhen I completed my studies and returned home, I along with other friends established the Environmental Protection Society to work for environment in Swat,\u201d he said, recalling that she was soft spoken, well-mannered and brave. Mohammad Roshan, a civil society activist, said that the mafias which killed Ms Rehman existed everywhere in the country as influential land and timber mafias worked in Swat openly.<\/p>\n

The participants said that it was the state\u2019s responsibility to eliminate all kinds of mafias from the country. \u201cUnfortunately, there are elements in the state institutions who are involved with mafias which make them too stronger to be tackled by common people,\u201d said Talimand Khan, a researcher. He added that Parveen Rehman had become a symbol of positive change.<\/p>\n

Hazer Gul, another social activist, questioned the silence of the Sindh government over the murder of Ms Rehman. \u201cIf Salman Taseer\u2019s killer can be brought to justice why not Parveen Rehman\u2019s? They should be brought to justice,\u201d he said. \u201cThis gathering of people here in Swat to raise voice against the antisocial elements shows that people who think positive still exist,\u201d said Fazal Maula Zahid.<\/p>\n

The participants passed a resolution, urging the Supreme Court to accelerate proceedings in the case of Ms Rehman to bring her killers to justice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Fazal Khaliq\u00a0 MINGORA: A number of civil society activists in Swat on Sunday marked the death anniversary of the renowned social worker, Parveen Rehman, who was murdered near her office in Orangi Town, Karachi, on March 13, 2013. They also urged the Supreme Court to accelerate proceedings in the case to bring her killers […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":999,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[294,295,293],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/morningpostnews.pk\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/morningpostnews.pk\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/morningpostnews.pk\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morningpostnews.pk\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morningpostnews.pk\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=998"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/morningpostnews.pk\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1001,"href":"https:\/\/morningpostnews.pk\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998\/revisions\/1001"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morningpostnews.pk\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/morningpostnews.pk\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morningpostnews.pk\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morningpostnews.pk\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}