Article: The making of an Islamic Jack the Ripper: Hafiz Muhammad Sarwar is a notorious serial killer of women, but--unlike Jack--there's no doubt at all about his identity. In fact, he's a free man who thinks women should be secluded. Abbas Zaidi tells a disturbing tale about the underbelly of politics in Pakistan.(View from Gujranwala)

When, on the morning of 21 February 2007, a bearded man walked up to a woman and asked 'Why aren't you wearing proper Islamic dress?' he was not looking for an answer. It was just a rhetorical question because, before the woman could respond, he had pumped a bullet into her head which killed her.

The woman--dressed so traditionally that only her face was visible--was Zill-e-Huma, who at the time was addressing a public meeting in her capacity as Social Welfare Minister of Pakistan's largest province, Punjab.

After shooting the Minister, Hafiz Muhammad Sarwar calmly stood his ground, allowed the police to arrest him and said loud and clear: he had killed ...

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