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KASUR: A faith healer, who had been grilled in connection with the Zainab case, was found hanging from the ceiling fan of his room under mysterious circumstances on Monday at Peerowala Road in Saddar police precincts.
Devotees of Baba Shabir alias Chanee Pir found him hanging from the ceiling fan of his room. Receiving information, police reached the spot and shifted the body to DHQ hospital for autopsy. Police are looking into the matter.
According to family, police had arrested Shabir in connection with the Zainab case some two weeks back. His nephew Muhammad Umer said Shabir went into depression after police released him after 10 days of interrogation and DNA profiling. He said Shabir did ablution (wazu) and “I thought he is going for worship as usual.”
Published in Dawn, January 30th, 2018
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Jan 30, 2018 07:50am
Safety of all accused including Imran will be challenging for Punjab police now.
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Jan 30, 2018 07:55am
I smell conspiracy here
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Jan 30, 2018 08:01am
Is this Imran the real culprit? Or this is just another cover up.
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Jan 30, 2018 08:03am
and the plot thickens...
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Jan 30, 2018 08:04am
There is more to it than meets the eye. Switching off Zainab's father's mike will not silence the truth. Those killed and silenced will speak.
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Jan 30, 2018 08:14am
Something fishy here
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Jan 30, 2018 08:17am
@Mehdi ...please do away with conspiracy theories and focus on facts.
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Jan 30, 2018 08:17am
There is definitely more than what meets the eye.
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Jan 30, 2018 08:29am
was not it expected?
they burn all record of their bad deeds. it is Punjab government.
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Jan 30, 2018 08:47am
Need more investigation to find out if this guy was also involved in the crime.
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Jan 30, 2018 08:50am
This is the start of events which will destroy the efforts to get to the bottom of what happened to Zainab. This is exactly what Dr. Shahid Masood advocating. Everybody is against Shahid Masood, but no body has ever followed up on what happened in the past. Criminals are free to do whatever they want, the ex prime minister is out there pounding the Supreme Court, and the PPP has taken Sindh and Sindhis as their slaves. I have no idea what is going on. I hope things come around and we vote people who are true Pakistanis.
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Jan 30, 2018 08:50am
I don't work for police but even I knew this was going to happen. They are going to kill each individual who is some how linked to the case.
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Jan 30, 2018 09:14am
In every suicide there is a murderer behind it.
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Jan 30, 2018 09:20am
Although this is terrible but one should not take this apparent suicide as for granted.
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Jan 30, 2018 09:37am
there is something big..claims of Shahid Masood seem to be true.
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Jan 30, 2018 09:45am
PTI supporters really want every conspiracy theory to come true. The accused was caught so pls stop playing politics with this tragedy.
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Jan 30, 2018 09:52am
I think Dr. Shahid Masood is right, The Zainab death case should be investigated to find the facts.
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Jan 30, 2018 09:56am
Dr. Shahid Masood's claims are true. He just lacks concrete evidence. But his information directs towards this racket.
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Jan 30, 2018 10:03am
It means Shahid Masood was right, the case is not so simple
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Jan 30, 2018 10:13am
Maybe Zainab incident bought back old memories of a similar crime where this peer could either have been the victim or the culprit himself. Truth is indeed stranger than fiction!
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Jan 30, 2018 10:21am
This is again is the fault of Dr. Shahid Masood...that this happened...it is a conspiracy against the media and punjab government by SM.
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Jan 30, 2018 10:21am
Faith healer in depression?
Performed ablution (wazu) and took his life?
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Jan 30, 2018 10:27am
This was expected. I just hope we dont see any more mysterious deaths associated with this case.
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Jan 30, 2018 10:29am
Now I am beginning to beleive Dr Shahid Masood
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Jan 30, 2018 10:58am
Its prove that he was indirectly connected with zainab case.
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Jan 30, 2018 10:58am
Seems like a cover up. Someone is trying to clean some evidence.
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Jan 30, 2018 11:12am
truth is stranger than fiction....Punjab Police on trial here...
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Jan 30, 2018 11:14am
Hopefully the new JIT will get to the truth.
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Jan 30, 2018 11:22am
Dr Shahid Masood was right to claim in his show that their is a big ring of wrong doers backed by some powerful personalties involved in this porn film business.
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Jan 30, 2018 11:46am
People who Fed the information to shahid Masood don't rest until the objective is achieved.
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Jan 30, 2018 12:06pm
@Peterson you said it..
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Jan 30, 2018 12:20pm
It seems that Dr.Masud theories are correct.
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Jan 30, 2018 12:55pm
@syed wasim haider yes they are
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Jan 30, 2018 12:56pm
In my humble opinion the blame goes to media, in their appetite for sensationism and commercial rating inflict investigations, and the result is obvious mental trauma plus innocent civilians get hurt in due process.
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Jan 30, 2018 01:01pm
@Salim Khan Nobody is against Shahid Masood. If he says on a national TV programme that the rapist has 37 foreign bank accounts then he has to give evidence for his claim. Otherwise he looses all the credibility and SC must punish him for airing misinformation on TV.
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Jan 30, 2018 01:57pm
As per news, he was the one among hundreds those were arrested by Police for DNA profiling on the basis of doubt. Can't handle the blame, mental pressure and insult; and did suicide. It's a collateral damage.
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Jan 30, 2018 02:26pm
Its looks like something fish;y was going on in Kasur which is hiding from public eye.
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Jan 30, 2018 03:28pm
This will all point to a a gang or ring in my opinion, more involved.
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Jan 30, 2018 04:31pm
@asuf totally agrred
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Jan 30, 2018 05:11pm
In other countries people earn thru innovation and hardwork and they progress but in our country our earning is thru corruption and easy money resulting poverty and criminal activities.
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Jan 30, 2018 06:20pm
@butterfly your argument makes a lot of sense!
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Jan 30, 2018 06:22pm
All these faith healers are in need of psychiatric help.
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Jan 30, 2018 07:50pm
This gives a lot of weight to Shahid Masood's claims. Any way how can Shahid Masood be criticized when both the JITs have yet to investigate and come up with a final report. Why did a select group of media and politicians push propaganda against him when the JITs have yet to come to a conclusion. He should be criticized only if both the JITs prove that his information about the involvement of an international ring had no merit. The death of this pir needs to be part of the JIT made by Supreme Court.
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Jan 31, 2018 08:32am
An innocent heart suffers the most.
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Jan 31, 2018 10:46am
Everybody is guilty until proven innocent.......child sex, rape and tape involves a big ring, fully insulated and protected by the Punjab Govt. It is almost a tourist attraction as people from other cities find Kasur as the magnet. The worst thing is that in many parents cases it is with parental consent. They are actually proud that their children are helping in the household income in this manner. And yet as that old song said.......'everybody wants to go to Heaven, but nobody wants to die'
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Feb 01, 2018 12:32am
Powerful eliminating the less powerful! How long this cycle of protection will go on!
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Feb 01, 2018 12:58am
These fake pirs and such are among the biggest criminals, propagating all manners of evils in society. There must be a system to regulate and control various authentic spiritual training systems in Pakistan, and to ban and penalize fakesters.
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Feb 01, 2018 10:44am
Authorities should take serious, the revelations made by Dr. Shahid Masood. How can a man take his own life only for being grilled?
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