Pakistan: girl raped in front of family for brother’s alleged crime

“A 16-year-old girl was raped by a man in front of her family on the orders of the village council as a punishment after her brother was accused of raping the man’s sister”. Pakistan continues to deteriorate under the horrors and barbarity of sharia. It is unimaginable that anyone who cares about human rights — especially self-declared feminists — can continue to turn a blind eye to the plight of women in such areas.

Although there were arrests, Pakistan is notorious for its double game, on one hand trying to give the appearance of fighting jihad terror, while also behaving as an “untrustworthy ally.” Yet at the grassroots level, it is becoming increasingly difficult for anyone who does not practice “orthodox Sunni Islam”:

The toxic religious atmosphere in Pakistan can’t be blamed entirely on jihadis on the periphery of society…..In recent years in government-approved schools, students are using textbooks that teach hostility towards all forms of thought and expression – except orthodox Sunni Islam.

“Girl raped in front of family on order of panchayat in Pakistan”, Zee News (thanks to The Religion of Peace), July 26, 2017:

Lahore: A 16-year-old girl was raped by a man in front of her family on the orders of the village council as a punishment after her brother was accused of raping the man’s sister in Pakistan’s Punjab province, police said on Wednesday.

Police have arrested 20 people after the incident that took place on July 18 in Rajpur village in Muzaffarabad in the province, Multan division police chief Ahsan Younis said.

“We have arrested 20 people including the head of the village council for ordering rape of the sister of Umer Wadda of Rajpur village,” Younis told PTI.

He said Wadda was accused of raping the teenage sister of Ashfaq of his locality on July 16.

“The matter was brought to the village council that unanimously ordered the rape of Wadda’s sister by Ashfaq. The Wadda’s family protested over the decision but it was told that justice could only be done if the same act was repeated with the accused’s sister,” he said.

Younis said the police sprang into action when the victim’s family reported the matter to it two days ago.

“The victim family did not report the matter until last Monday. We have registered separate FIRs against Ashfaq and over 30 village council members, and Wadda,” he said, adding that the police was investigating all aspects of the case.

“We are also investigating whether the sister of Wadda was raped in front of her parents and the brother (which is the claim of the Wadda family),” he said.

He added that the station house officer of Muzafarabad police has become a complainant in the case so that both parties cannot reach a compromise and withdraw the FIRs against each other.

It is the same district where in early 2000 Mukhtaran Mai was raped on the order of the village council, triggering an international outrage.

Rights activist and former Supreme Court Bar Association Asma Jehangir said a number of such cases are not reported….

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