Tag: faith healer

  • ‘Aamil’ did not instruct pregnant woman to hammer nail in head, husband claims

    ‘Aamil’ did not instruct pregnant woman to hammer nail in head, husband claims

    Ahmed Sabir, husband of a pregnant woman who allegedly hammered a nail in her head a few days ago on the instructions of an ‘Aamil [faith healer]’ has denied any involvement of the faith healer in the incident.

    Sabir, while speaking with journalists on Thursday, claimed that his wife is suffering from a mental illness for a long period of time. She had previously received treatment from psychiatrists.

    Sabir rejected all media reports that he had threatened his wife that he will divorce her and remarry if she did not give birth to a boy. He revealed that this woman is his second wife with whom he has three children, including two sons. He has eight children with his first wife, including four sons.

    While talking to journalists, he said, “You people would not believe this, but she is possessed by spirits.”

    Sabir said that his second wife had previously jumped from their house, which is a three-storey building.

    Earlier, a statement was given by Sabir’s wife that an ‘Aamil’ instructed her to hammer a nail into her skull when she found out that she was about to deliver a daughter again from an ultrasound.

    She got injured and was rushed to Lady Reading Hospital, and underwent emergency surgery to remove the nail from her skull.

    The woman left the hospital with her family after the nail was removed from her head.

  • Alleged healer Mala Ali Kurdistani in Pakistan, greeted by PPP’s Yusuf Raza Gilani

    A video was posted from the media cell of former prime minister Yusuf Raza Gilani, in which he be seen meeting alleged healer Mala Ali Kurdistani, who is termed as a faith healer in the caption of the post.

    Several videos has also emerged of Mala Ali Kurdistani holding public gatherings in the capital.

    However, the credibility of the alleged healer is being seriously questioned. Journalist Zarrar Khuhro shared the link of an article on his Twitter handle, in which several complaints about Kurdistani beating up customers “to heal them” were received in Istanbul. In February 2020, he was arrested in Saudi Arabia and was released later.

  • Fake pir buries himself inside pit to impress devotees

    Fake pir buries himself inside pit to impress devotees

    To gain more respect among his devotees and gather more followers, a fake pir (faith healer) in Sialkot attempted to trap himself inside a deep underground pit for 41 days in a ritual but was arrested three days after being inside the pit.

    According to a report in Samaa News, Sagheer alias Mithay Shah decided to shut himself in a six-foot deep pit in Wanchal village and told his tearful and emotional devotees that he would stay there for 41 days. His devotees bid him farewell with drums and high emotions.

    However, Sagheer turned out to be a complete fraud after the police unearthed his pit which had water, electricity, food and bed arrangements. The police foiled his plans and arrested him three days into his ritual.

    Video footage shows the police removing the sand and wooden planks over the pit to arrest Sagheer. He had made arrangements for water, electricity, food and a bed.

    The police have also registered a case against the pir and have put him behind bars. SHO Tariq Mehmood shared that the police received information that a man in the village had shut himself in a grave-like pit and there was a possibility that he could die of suffocation because the pit had been covered with mud.

    He said several people had gathered around the pit when they reached. The law enforcers pulled the fake faith healer out of the pit.

    The SHO further revealed that when they interrogated the fake pir, he said that he was doing this to “help raise respect and pride” for himself among his devotees so that more people follow him.

    Meanwhile, Sagheer’s devotees defended his actions saying that the police pulled him out of the pit while he was praying.