How a LinkedIn profile helped a woman piece together the clues of her father's murder 14 years later until she uncovered the truth
On the afternoon of August 26, 2008, Maham Amjad, then 15, was still in bed, nursing her fractured right thumb – a basketball injury at school.
When she was finally taken to the hospital - after a lot of tears and pleas - she refused to believe that the man lying on the hospital bed was her father, who was shot ten times and was in a coma. “When my father was alive, we didn’t face any financial difficulty. He was the one who did grocery shopping, paid for it and took care of all our needs. But after him, it was like everything spun out of control,” says Maham, now a 28-year-old marketing consultant with a penchant for the arts.
A few months after Amjad’s murder, someone sent Maham an email with attached pictures of his father’s bloodied body. Maham’s family moved 1,200 kilometres to another city, Lahore. “It was a complete cultural shock. I never really fit in. All my friends were in Karachi. It was a miserable life.” As Maham grew older, the questions that had lingered at the back of her mind became a driving force to find out what had actually happened and seek justice. She also spent hours on the internet, Googling in search of Shah, the accused in her father's murder.Five years ago, she moved to Dubai to focus on her marketing career and also ventured into a real estate business. “I never gave up searching for him, though.
She took a screenshot and shared the picture with one of her father’s old colleagues. Yes, it was him, he told her. For two years, Maham tracked Shah’s online activity. She discovered that many of her father’s former colleagues - some who had even attended his funeral - were friends with Shah on his Facebook account.
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