Local magistrate allows exhumation of KP child maid’s body

ABBOTTABAD: The local magistrate allowed on Wednesday exhumation of the body of an 11-year-old domestic worker, who was employed at the house of a Khyber Pakhtunkhwa minister’s brother before she died mysteriously a few days ago. 

The exhumation of Misbah's body will be carried out on Thursday (tomorrow). The government had requested the local magistrate to grant permission to do so. 

The fact-finding committee investigating the mysterious death recommended the exhumation and post-mortem of the body, sources said earlier on Wednesday.

The young domestic worker employed at KP Higher Education Minister Mushtaq Ghani’s brother Shoaib Ghani’s house had died mysteriously at a hospital in Abbottabad on January 25.

The committee constituted by DIG Hazara was set up to determine whether the cause of death was natural or not.

A police spokesperson speaking on the case had said Misbah’s health deteriorated after eating fruits. He added she was then taken to a hospital, but could not survive.

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The young maid had mysteriously expired at a hospital in Abbottabad on January 25

The spokesperson had added that a brother and a sister of the girl had also died of the same disease.

The investigation can be taken forward after the medical report emerges, said the police spokesperson.

He had added that no request for legal action has yet been made by Misbah’s family.

“I am as sorrowful about Misbah's death as her family. I have no objection to a probe into her death,” Mushtaq had said.

"The ones known for mud-slinging have been doing propaganda," according to Ghani. "Every single person is busy scoring points."