LAHORE: A sixteen-year-old girl named Sameera was rescued by a man named Allah Ditta from her husbandâs house in Pindi Bhatian, Hafizabad, last Saturday. She met members of the press and a fact-finding team from the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) on Friday. Sameera said that she was tortured and kept in detention by her husband, his elder brother and brotherâs wife for the last two years. She was thirteen when she was married.
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Sameera was reportedly put in chains on the roof of their house and was denied food and water. âThey always tortured me and forced me to eat what was left in the dogâs pot,â Sameera told the team in the presence of her mother. Sameeraâs husband, Maqsood Ahmad Sheikh, 27, his elder brother Jahangir and his wife Janat Bibi have reportedly left their house. The HRCP team said they had found it locked. Sameera said the first six months of her marriage had passed happily. âLater on, I was treated like an animal,â she said. Sameera alleged that her husband and his elder brotherâs wife had romantic relations. Sameera told the HRCP team that she had not left her house for the last two years. She said she wanted to separate from her husband and live with her mother.
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