Dr. Fariha Efrahim’s Death: Competition or Organized Murder?

By : Ilyas Kashmiri

Dr. Fariha Efrahim was killed in a competition, it cannot be said with 100% certainty, but if an investigation is conducted based on this suspicion, the reasons for the deceased’s death can be known.

In a society where the entire education system is based on competition, a girl from a backward village and working class of the colonial society has been winning gold medals for the past four years on the basis of her hard work. In the competition, she may have been beating a girl from a capitalist and influential family and this is the reason for her death and murder.

According to Efrahim, when he was going to Lahore, he requested the administration of the relevant institution on the way that they would not conduct a post-mortem of the body, but a post-mortem was conducted before he left. This process turns this suspicion into certainty that the deceased did not die an accidental death, but was murdered.

In these circumstances, the death of the deceased should be considered a murder and a case should be tried. The biological data of the three girls who competed for the topper should be taken and any of them who are the children of a colonel, general, ruling class, bureaucracy or university administration officer should be arrested and investigated. We claim that this murder will come to light, otherwise the establishment of investigation commissions will lead to turning the murder into an accident because the murderer and the commission members are people from the same class and protect each other’s interests.

Civil society should take this demand forward with a clear and unequivocal stance because our girls are not safe even while getting an education. When they advance in this competition, they are even killed. The future is not safe in colonial and occupied societies anyway, but now life is not safe either.

Our people should raise their collective voice on the murder of Fariha Efrahim on a very simple demand that the biometric data of the three topper girls be made public and arrests be made on the basis of public indications. This is the only way to bring Fariha Efrahim’s killers to justice. Otherwise, we will continue to receive the bodies and bury them in silence and pray.

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