{"id":281178,"date":"2020-09-18T11:34:25","date_gmt":"2020-09-18T06:34:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/?p=281178"},"modified":"2020-09-18T11:34:25","modified_gmt":"2020-09-18T06:34:25","slug":"boy-brutally-tortured-to-death-by-a-faith-healer-in-dg-khan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/boy-brutally-tortured-to-death-by-a-faith-healer-in-dg-khan\/","title":{"rendered":"Boy Brutally Tortured To Death By A ‘Faith Healer’ in DG Khan"},"content":{"rendered":"

A \u2018spiritual healer\u2019 in the Drahma area of Dera Ghazi Khan has been apprehended by the police on Thursday for allegedly torturing an innocent 12-year-old boy under the guise of exorcism.<\/p>\n

The family could not save the boy\u2019s life as he succumbed to his wounds on his way to the hospital.<\/p>\n

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Exorcisms are an age-old practice found in many religions. By definition, it is about evicting demonic or spiritual entities from a person who is believed to be \u2018possessed\u2019.<\/p>\n

While most people believe that there are spiritual entities all around us, not many can agree on the various methods and techniques used in exorcisms. Since there is no definitive guide on how to carry out an exorcism, there is a large number of self-proclaimed \u201cfaith\/spiritual healers\u201d who have their own ways. These \u2018healers\u2019 are mostly con-artists who are allowed the freedom to do anything with a ‘possessed’ person.<\/p>\n

Recently, a young boy lost his life to such a con-man who brutally tortured him.<\/p>\n

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The incident took place in the Darbar Peer Fateh Shah area. The boy\u2019s name was Muhammad Akash, a local from Siddique Abad Colony, who died during his \u2018exorcism\u2019 performed by the culprit Ijaz Hussain.<\/p>\n

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According to the victim\u2019s family, Akash was \u201cbrutally tortured to death\u201d at the hands of Ijaz.<\/p>\n

They demand that justice be served since the case has been registered against him. The police have apprehended Ijaz Hussain and have sent the body of the boy for medico-legal requirements.<\/p>\n

\u201cThose who torture the innocent in the name of treating a possessed soul will not be given no reprieve by the law enforcement,\u201d District Police Officer (DPO) Akhtar Farooq said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

People need to beware of these ‘faith healers’ who are nothing more than frauds.<\/p>\n

Stay posted for more updates.<\/p>\n

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A \u2018spiritual healer\u2019 in the Drahma area of Dera Ghazi Khan has been apprehended by the police on Thursday for allegedly torturing an innocent 12-year-old boy under the guise of exorcism. The family could not save the boy\u2019s life as he succumbed to his wounds on his way to the hospital. Exorcisms are an age-old practice found in many religions. […] More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":244356,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2374,1298,2199,1551,1291],"tags":[],"adace-sponsor":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-281178","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-crime","8":"category-culture","9":"category-featured","10":"category-press-release","11":"category-social-media"},"wps_subtitle":"The 12-year-old died during a 'failed exorcism.'","img_urls":{"thumbnail":["https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/death-364x205.jpg",364,205,true],"medium":["https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/death-758x424.jpg",758,424,true],"full":["https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/death.jpg",1000,560,false]},"author_name":"Sher Alam","categories_name":["Crime","Culture","Featured","Press Release","Social Media"],"title_text":"Boy Brutally Tortured To Death By A \u2018Faith Healer\u2019 in DG Khan","related_stories":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?filter&per_page=4&categories=2374,1298,2199,1551,1291&exclude=281178","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281178"},{"taxonomy":"adace-sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/adace-sponsor?post=281178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}