Two women tortured to death, 2 injured near Mach.

MACH, May 16, 2010 (Balochistan Times): Two women were tortured to death while another two suffered serious injuries at picnic point of Pir Ghaib near Mach here on Sunday. Levies Force told that Sunday morning, they received information that bodies of the two women were placed at picnic point of Pir Ghaib while two other women were seriously injured. A Levies Force party reached the place and shifted bodies and injured women to Civil Hospital Mach. Later, one of the injured women namely Sana told Levies Force officials that six years back, she had married Muhammad Arif, a dweller of Dera Bugti. She maintained that her husband had developed some dispute with her. She added that last week, on insistence of Arif, she along with her mother, a sister and a girlfriend visited Quetta for shopping purpose. She recalled that her husband asked them to visit Pir Ghaib, a picnic point near Mach town. When we visited Pir Ghaib, my husband Arif along with his brother and an accomplice tied us with ropes and brutally tortured us. After victimizing, he opened fire at us. As a result, my mother Nagina and sister Hamida died on the spot and I and my friend Rani suffered serious bullet injuries. Later, Arif along with his accomplices fled, she said in her statement. She maintained that she is second wife of Arif. She said that Arif has taken away her two siblings with him. Levies Force personnel further said that injured had been refereed to hospital in Quetta due to their critical condition. A case has been registered against the accused and investigation into the incident is underway.

(THROUGH ASIA PULSE)