Police rescue Hafizabad woman held captive by brothers for 10 years

HAFIZABAD: Police in Punjab on Friday rescued a woman from a house in the city of Hafizabad who had been held captive in a small room for almost ten years. 

The woman, identified as Naila Bibi, was kept captive in the house by two of her brothers over an inheritance dispute, according to reports. One of the brothers of the rescued woman has been arrested. 

The brothers of Naila Bibi only fed her once a week and did not clean her room. When she was rescued by police, the bed in which she was dwelling was covered with her own excrement. 

Naila Bibi was cleaned up with the help of a neighbour and was sent to the hospital for a medical check-up. She appeared to be suffering from significant physical and psychological trauma from the captivity.  

Earlier on Thursday, a former woman Member of the Provincial Assembly was found dead in her house in Naseerabad. The woman, identified as Parveen Sikandar Gull, 60, lived alone in the upper portion of the house. 

Police suspected she might have been strangled as marks of rope were found around her neck. 

She had been elected as a member of Punjab Assembly on the ticket of Pakistan Muslim League (Quaid-e-Azam) during the tenure of former president Pervez Musharraf. 

Parveen Sikandar also served as the secretary of Pakistan Women Hockey Federation. Meanwhile, Chief Minister Usman Buzdar has sought a report from on the incident from the Punjab police.