Anyone can come to us without any fear. Be it a minister, a general, or a governor – we take action. Today itself, we arrested a GDI (intelligence) officer and a police officer. We will send them to court.
As the interview ended, Saiful Islam Khyber talked about a different side of his ministry – one that acted as a shield for women against their own families, ensuring that women’s assets and resources were not taken away by greedy – and often close – relatives.
In the world of Khyber, the Ministry was the ultimate balancer – a place where the ancient laws of the desert met the administration of a modern state – where the ‘pause’ on a young girl’s future was a mere footnote in a much longer, divine story.