Shazia Masih

On Friday, 22 January 2010, Shazia's step-father, Bashir Masih, received a call from Chaudhry Naeem reporting that she had fallen down the stairs. She was admitted to Jinnah Hospital. Doctors at Jinnah Hospital initially told her parents and the media that Shazia was dead on arrival, and that she may have died about four days earlier based on the state of the body. Shazia's killer had broken her jaw, ribs and right arm, and she bore signs of blunt force trauma on her sensitive parts, including kidneys, neck and forehead. There were also signs of trauma on her private parts.

Shazia Masih (May 20, 1997 – January 22, 2010) was a young girl from Pakistan's impoverished Christian community. Near her 12th birthday, she was hired to work as a house maid in the home of the former President of the Lahore Bar Association, Chaudhry Naeem. After eight months of employment in Naeem's home, she was found dead with marks of torture on her body.

Shazia Masih was born on May 20, 1997. Her parents were Akbar Masih and Nasreen Bibi. After her father died while she was young, her mother married her step-father, Bashir Masih, who was a sweeper. She lived in a rented room with her mother, step-father and five siblings in a slum in Samanabad, Lahore. Shazia was the third child.