Tag: Shelter Home

  • ‘I want to go with my husband’: The Minor after court sends her to a shelter

    ‘I want to go with my husband’: The Minor after court sends her to a shelter

    The Minor was produced in the Sindh High Court on Monday. Her husband Zaheer Ahmed was also presented before the court today.

    When the The Minor entered the courtroom today, her mother attempted to embrace her, but was prevented by court officers who said they didn’t have authorization to meet her. The Minor also refused to meet her parents.

    The Minor in the court said that she has married Zaheer Ahmed with her consent. She also said that she is 18 years of age. However, The Minor’s father told the court that his daughter is underage.

    The court has directed the authorities to conduct a medical examination of The Minor. The hearing has been adjourned till June 8 (Wednesday). The court has ordered to sent her to a shelter home.

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    In a joint operation with Punjab Police, Karachi Police yesterday said they have recovered The Minor from Bahawalnagar.

    The Minor went missing on April 16. The same month she was found in Lahore. Three videos of The Minor also surfaced in which the girl can be heard saying that she married out of her own free will, and claimed that she is 18 years of age. However, her father claims that she is not 18.

    The Minor, in a video statement in May, said that her life is in danger.

  • Lahore panagahs refuse to accomodate women

    Lahore panagahs refuse to accomodate women

    A 65-year-old woman, Noreen Malangi from Rahim Yar Khan, has had to spend the cold winter nights on the streets of Lahore as shelter homes in the city did not allow her in.

    While talking to a private news outlet she said, “I came here alone, but the management of the shelter refused to let me in. Ever since, I have been spending my nights on the streets.”

    Malangi has been sitting outside the Data Darbar shelter home
    for a week. She went there twice but was sent back both times.

    Another 62-year-old woman Aasia came to the shelter from Shahkot but was also sent back.

    “They told me they didn’t have rooms for women but allowed men to come in the shelter,” she said.

    As per reports, there is space for 750 men but just 115 women at five shelter homes across Lahore.

    According to the management of the Data Darbar shelter, women
    can’t be let in unless female staff is hired.

    “We have halls and rooms already allotted for women but we are all men here,” said Fayyaz, the in charge of the Data Darbar shelter home.

    “In case of an emergency with the women, how are we going to tackle the situation?” he asked.

    Panagahs have been set up in different cities on the direction of Prime Minister Imran Khan who had issued instructions to the Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa chief ministers to ensure that all people have a roof over their heads in this freezing weather.

  • VIDEO: Imran Khan finds aloo gosht at Panahgah ‘better than PM House’

    VIDEO: Imran Khan finds aloo gosht at Panahgah ‘better than PM House’

    Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan and Federal Minister for Planning and Special Initiatives Asad Umar have found the aloo gosht [potato-meat curry] served to them at Faisalabad Panahgah [shelter home] “even better than the one at PM House in Islamabad”.

    This was revealed by Umar, who on Friday tweeted:

    “Got a chance to dine at the shelter home in Faisalabad during our visit. Both I and the prime minister really liked aloo gosht. The premier said it was [even] better than the one he gets to have at PM House,” he wrote.

    The tweet came hours after PM Imran and a few members of his team reached Faisalabad to inaugurate the first shelter home in the city, which has been constructed over a four kanal area as part of the government’s flagship Panahgah initiative.

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    Accompanied by Punjab Chief Minister (CM) Usman Buzdar, the premier toured the shelter home to review the facilities being provided by the provincial government to homeless people, and received a briefing by the administration.

    Last week, he had directed the chief ministers of Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) to take steps to provide temporary shelters and food to every person in their respective province in the wake of harsh cold weather.

    “Given the extremely cold weather conditions, I have asked CMs of Punjab and KP to ensure that no person is left out without a shelter; and their administrations must take immediate action to provide temporary shelters plus food for those who cannot be accommodated in existing Panah­gahs (shelter homes),” the PM had tweeted.

    Earlier on Friday, the premier also broke ground on the state-of-the-art Allama Iqbal Industrial City that has been planned over an area of 4,000 acres.

    The industrial city is a mega project of the Special Economic Zone of Faisalabad Industrial Estate Development and Management Company (FIEDMC) under the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC).