Pregnant singer shot dead in Larkana for refusing to stand up and sing

[MenInG]

https://www.google.com.bh/amp/s/www.dawn.com/news/amp/1400962




A local singer was shot dead during a festive ceremony in Kanga village near Larkana on Tuesday.

Twenty-four-year-old Samina Samoon, also known as Samina Sindhu, was allegedly shot dead by Tarique Ahmed Jatoi while she was performing at the gathering.

She had reportedly refused to oblige his 'request' that she stand up while she sang.

The accused, who was allegedly intoxicated, had badgered the victim to comply before he shot her dead.

Samina was rushed to the Chandka Hospital, but could not survive her injuries and was pronounced dead.

The slain singer's husband told journalists that she had been six months pregnant with their child.

He demanded that the first information report should mention that the man who shot her and two of his accomplices are accused of double murder: that of the woman and her unborn child.

Police have arrested the main accused.

 

[IAJ]

Kya bane ka is qoum ka?

 

[AssassinatedDevil]

Horrific stuff. No punishment is enough for the guilty individual.

 

[Cpt. Rishwat]

You can only wonder at the mentality festering in some parts of society where a pregnant woman could be shot dead for not standing for some local thug.

 

[Dios]

The **** should have been shot dead on the spot.

 

[Bewal Express]

Horrific stuff. No punishment is enough for the guilty individual.

Dont worry, its Sindh- there will be no punishment.

 

[Cpt. Rishwat]

Dont worry, its Sindh- there will be no punishment.

I still remember a guy from there bragging about a friend who shot dead a man for asking him to move from a reserved seat at a wedding in Karachi. This is the sort of mentality which flourishes there, you can't even say it was just a deranged individual.

 

[Mian]

RIP poor girl.

These sindhi waderes are **** they think they own the poor sindhis and can do anything to them.

 

[Madplayer]

If ever i would have liked a mob justice being handed out to someone, it would have been in this case.

 

[Bewal Express]

RIP poor girl.

These sindhi waderes are **** they think they own the poor sindhis and can do anything to them.

Well they do. Sindhi population makes us Punjabis look like revolutionaries.

 

[Waseem]

It was horrific to watch it and for absolutely no reason, pure arrogance from animals.

Someone posted similar story where singer was asked to sing while they shot fires in the air and singer was feeling scared but they threatened her to keep singing otherwise she will be shot and kept firing while she sang and they thought it was funny to see her singing, sick minded losers.

 

[Eagle_Eye]

Any thing from PPP on this? Billy should ensure justice for this lady if he wants to be taken seriously.

 

[Bewal Express]

It was horrific to watch it and for absolutely no reason, pure arrogance from animals.

Someone posted similar story where singer was asked to sing while they shot fires in the air and singer was feeling scared but they threatened her to keep singing otherwise she will be shot and kept firing while she sang and they thought it was funny to see her singing, sick minded losers.

A timid population dominated by thugs.

 

[Bewal Express]

Any thing from PPP on this? Billy should ensure justice for this lady if he wants to be taken seriously.

Billo doesnt have the courage to confront Dad and auntie over billions stolen, there is no chance he gives a monkeys about some "worthless women".

 

[Waseem]

Billo doesnt have the courage to confront Dad and auntie over billions stolen, there is no chance he gives a monkeys about some "worthless women".

Actually he does say all the nice things to keep PPP supporters excited, daddy does all the dodgy dealings and phupho controls some key posts as well.

On PTM issue, problem started due to Rao Anwaar and Zardari defended him by saying he is our bahadur bacha. Then comes Bilawal saying all the nice things like "we should listen to their genuine demands" without explaining what the issues are and how can we resolve them but it was enough for liberal PPP supporters to applaud him because he said nice thing.

 

[Bewal Express]

Actually he does say all the nice things to keep PPP supporters excited, daddy does all the dodgy dealings and phupho controls some key posts as well.

On PTM issue, problem started due to Rao Anwaar and Zardari defended him by saying he is our bahadur bacha. Then comes Bilawal saying all the nice things like "we should listen to their genuine demands" without explaining what the issues are and how can we resolve them but it was enough for liberal PPP supporters to applaud him because he said nice thing.

The ground reality is that PPP will rule Sindh for ever and because of that support it would be great For the people of Sindh and for the betterment of PK politics that Billo takes control from father and Auntie and make PPP an honest alternative. At the moment the PPP is on par with Nooras as far corruption and incompetence is concerned.

 

[gkb101277867]

This guy wasn't related to shahrukh jatoi was he?

 

[PakLFC]

Today the killer doesn't know why he killed and the victim doesn't know why their life was taken away from them. The hadith from Hazoor(saw) mentioning such happenings is so true today,

 

[MenInG]

The husband of the pregnant singer who was killed in Larkana, Ashiq Samoo, said he was sitting behind his wife when she was shot. According to him, SHO Liaquat Ali was also present at the event.

People at the event said Samina Sindhu was singing a song when 22-year-old Tariq Jatoi shot her thrice. The singer, who was pregnant with her first child, was taken to the Chandka Hospital. Doctors said she was dead on arrival.

Footage on social media shows how some men approach the stage on which the woman was seated and singing. The men can be seen throwing money at her and speaking to her. The woman continues singing and rises to stand. The shooting happens and she falls on the stage.

Tariq Jatoi, the main suspect accused of killing Samina Sindhu, was presented at a court. A seven-day physical custody of Jatoi was granted by the court.

Killed over refusal

Her husband told SAMAA that the couple had gone to perform at the aqeeqa ceremony of the sons of Niaz Junejo, the reader of a sessions court judge. They earned their living through such performances – Samina would sing and Ashiq would play the harmonium.

“Niaz asked my wife to stand while singing and also dance,” he said. “She was pregnant and said she couldn’t dance. She rose to stand up and continued singing. In the meantime, Niaz, who was inebriated, provoked his friend, Tariq Jatoi by saying that he just sat and watched while Samina refused his demand.”

According to Ashiq, Tariq opened fire then and a bullet pierced through her body. “Some of us took Samina to the hospital,” he said. “The police beat up the other musicians of our team who had been left behind and also snatched Rs35,000 from them.”

Under the police’s nose

Ashiq said the venue of event was right behind the Kanga police station.

“SHO Liaquat Ali, who had drunk so much that he wasn’t in his senses, was present at the event,” he said. “We sat in front of the SP’s office at 2am with the body as no one listened. The next day, we sat in front of the press club.” According to him, SSP Tanveer Tunio suspended the SHO only after media reports compelled the Sindh IG to take notice of the incident.

Initially, the Kanga police described the shooting as an ‘accident’ and refused to register a case. However, after media reports, an FIR was registered on the orders of SSP Tanveer Tunio. Jatoi was then arrested and the SHO was suspended for refusal to register an FIR.

The case was registered on behalf of her husband under Section 302 of Pakistan Penal Code against Jatoi and two unidentified men. Jatoi will be presented before a court today (Thursday).

“I told them about Niaz Junejo while recording my statement,” said Ashiq. “But they didn’t include his name in the FIR.” According to him, even Tariq told the police about how Niaz provoked him but the police ignored the information due to his ‘strong backing’.

Sindh Home Minister Sohail Anwar Sial said he had ordered the police to register a case against the suspected shooter. “We have sent the murder weapon for forensic examination,” he said.

Samina’s killing sparked reactions. The footage of the shooting went viral on social media as well.

Javed Brohi, an officer-bearer of Sindh Fankaar Welfare Trust, demanded justice for the family. “Artists who spread happiness among the people are getting dead bodies in return,” he said.

Writer Amar Sindhu wrote on Facebook that Samina was killed at the aqeeqa ceremony of a court reader’s sons. “She was asked to stand and dance while singing,” Amar wrote. “She said she was eight months pregnant and it was difficult for her to stand.”

According to Amar, she was issued death threats. “She tried to get up when a bullet pierced through her body.”

The rights activist further wrote that she wants to curse those killers who try to cover their crimes by invoking their Sindhi ethnicity. “Even the educated civil society of Sindh complains of Urdu media’s prejudice when Shahrukh Jatoi is called a killer,” she wrote.

On February 3, a Mardan stage and drama artiste, Sumbal, was shot dead by three men in her house after she refused to come with them for a performance. In March, stage actor and dancer Sitara Baig said seven men raped her at a five star hotel in Lahore but the police wouldn’t register a case. Sitara and her sister, Kismat Baig, were considered among the highest paid stage dancers in Lahore. In 2015, unidentified men shot Kismat and her bodyguard, Ali. They were taken to a hospital, where Kismat breathed her last. Ali told the media that before opening fire, the attackers said, “We’ll hurt you so bad that you’ll never be able to dance again.”

Transgender performers not human?

Stage performers have little protection in Pakistan. Transgender performers face even worse discrimination. Aish Khan, a transgender performer based in Karachi, told SAMAA that men get drunk at most of the functions.

“I used to perform at all-men gatherings but have stopped that because I have been assaulted four times,” she said. “The men consider us their private property and do not respect our choices. Now, I just perform at family functions.”

Performers are ill-treated if they say no. “Men at a DHA event shaved the eyebrows of my friend, Payal, just to humiliate her,” she said. “Our community protested and the police arrested him, only to let him off in a few hours. I saw him again at a function in Baldia and he asked me to meet him alone. When I said no, he told me that he’ll kidnap me on my way.”

Aish said men do not consider them humans. “We are humans and we get tired after continuous performance from 12am to 5am,” she said. “If I want to sit and rest for a while, they get furious.”

https://www.samaa.tv/pakistan/2018/...ad-for-refusing-to-dance-at-larkana-function/

 

[Pakistanian]

The tribal gunculture in Pakistan is a cancer. They need to take away their guns.

I find nothing appealing about tribal culture but for some reason it's glorified in Pakistan, it's primitive and uncivilized.

 

[Syed1]

Latkao iss janwaar ko.... test case for judiciary, they better not mess it up. The SHO should immediately be dismissed and stripped of his rank.

 

[DeadBall]

I have actually seen people in Karachi getting shot for much less. Vile animals.

 

[Hermoine Green]

These wadeeras