Afzal Kohistani’s brother urge govt for judicial commission

Sabir Shah Hoti

PESHAWAR: The brother of Afzal Kohistani, the man who exposed the 2012 Kohistan video scandal and was killed last month, had demanded the formation of a judicial commission to investigate the murder of his brother. 

Addressing a press conference in Peshawar Press Club on Wednesday Bin Yasir, Kohistani’s brother, said that Afzal had been struggling for years to correct the evils of the society and its old-fashioned customs, for which he had been murdered.

He said the family wanted the case to reach its logical end as four of his brothers had already been killed.

“My family lives in great distress today,” he said.

He said that I know that Kohistan video scandal case is very sensitive, and that one day they will kill me too, but I will continue struggle and would not get a step back for justice. 

The family does not have faith in the local police, Yasir Said, Adding that the police was failed to make sure the security of Afzal and that’s why her was murdered.

He alleged that instead of providing proper protection to him the police were trying to associate his nephew in the murder of Afzal in an attempt to spoil the case.

Social worker Qamar Naseem also addressed the press conference and said that the courts had been misled in the Kohistan video scandal for seven years by the culprits. Naseem alleged that the women presented before the commission which was sent to Kohistan to ascertain the identity of the women were not the ones seen in the 2012 video.

Naseem urged that they now lawyers was ready to take up the case and the civil society members who tried to unearthing the truth in this case were also being given threats.