"Blocking public roads as part of VVIP protocols of government and private personalities is a violation of fundamental human rights," Burney argued in his plea. Last month, a 10-month-old girl died when her family was unable to enter Karachi's Civil Hospital due to security measures for the arrival of Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Chairperson Bilawal Bhutto Zardari and other party leaders. Bisma, a resident of Gabol Park in Lyari, had been suffering from measles and had a high fever when her father, Faisal, brought her to the hospital.
He arrived at the trauma centre entrance, which was manned by security officials for the arrival of Bilawal, Sindh Chief Minister Qaim Ali Shah and others. Faisal said the security officers deployed on the road stopped him from entering the gate even after he argued for some time. By the time he walked around the premises to arrive at the second entrance to the emergency ward, Bisma's condition had deteriorated. The doctors told him that she was dead. "The doctors believed that she could have survived if I had reached at least 15 minutes earlier," Faisal sobbed in front of television cameras as he held her lifeless body.