Madressah tragedy

AT a mofussil madressah, a student has died, and the accused teacher is absconding. It appears that a teacher at a Vehari madressah tortured a blind student to death for not learning his lessons. The madressah is no ordinary one, but is owned by none other than Qari Abdul Latif, who gained much fame from being one of the movers of the Shariat Bill, as a Senator from the JUI-D. Apparently, Muhammad Atif was not learning the lessons imparted by Qari Ziauddin. So the Qari hung Atif from a ceiling fan. The blind child was only unfastened when he fainted. But he was not taken to hospital, but kept in the teacher's room, until he died. The body was only autopsied, thus permitting the registration of a murder case, when the DSP Vehari Saddar intervened upon receiving information of the incident. Apart from his sending out police teams to arrest the alleged killer, Prime Minister Yousaf Reza Gilani has ordered an enquiry into Atif's death.