Fear grips Karachi as seven women get stabbed in three days

Naimat Khan

KARACHI: Law enforcement agencies were clueless and fear among the women folk high in Karachi as unidentified person wounded seventh woman with knife attack here on Thursday.

According to details, two of the seven wounded women have recorded their statements to the police; however, police were clueless about the assailants. According to reports, a 28 years old woman was stabbed with knife in the back in Gulistan-e-Jauhar area here on Thursday; however, she was discharged of hospital after first aid treatment.

Three women were wounded on Monday whereas one on Tuesday. Two women got injured in knife attacks on Wednesday.

A Girl, named Uroosa, has reported tell to police that she was going along with family on September 26 when unknown person riding on motorcycle attacked her from behind. The man had put on helmet on his head so she could not remember the face. According to her mother, Uroosa is student of class seven. She was asked to register case but she refused.

Another woman, 50 years old Hajra, told police that she encountered the same situation but she also failed to see face of the attacker. Two separate cases were registered in Gulistan-e-Jauhar and Shahra-e-Faisal police stations under the terrorism act.

The private health care facility claimed that their doctors had attended to seven female patients who had arrived with knife wounds on their lower torso. Darul Sehat Hospital Chief Executive Officer Shahzad Alam said three women with knife wounds on their lower torso were brought to the health centre on Monday and then one each the following two days.

Alam said the hospital had contacted the relevant police stations and all the victims had filed their complaints with them. Deputy Inspector General (East) Sultan Ali Khowaja said he had assigned the investigation of the case to Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Dr Samiullah Soomro.

Khowaja said he had directed SSP Soomro to visit the Darul Sehat Hospital to gather all the details of the case. He, however, added that Soomro had informed him that only one such case was reported. He made the assurance that the SSP was investigating the case and that he would contact all the victims.

Later, Sindh police chief IGP AD Khowaja took notice on the reports of the incidents in which unidentified men were attacking women on their lower torsos with sharp objects in Gulistan-e-Jauhar, directing the deputy inspector general of the East Range to immediately submit the inquiry report.

The inspector general of police also directed the East Range chief to establish contact with the hospital management to make the investigation more effective in the light of the victims’ statements.