August 4, 2021 – Pakistan Gender News

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Rapists, sex offenders ‘should be made an example of’: Senator Faisal Javed Khan

The PTI member took to Twitter to share his views regarding public hangings of such offenders. In the tweet, the senator said that it is essential to create a consensus on the issue of public executions for sex offenders.
He said that people who abuse children and women “are not human beings, they are savage beasts and they should be made an example of”.
The PTI member said that along with legislation, the enforcement of said legislation and prosecution of offenders is of utmost importance.
The statement by Faisal Javed comes amid a time when crimes against women and children are on the rise again.
Most recently, on July 30, Minister of State for Climate Change, Zartaj Gul spoke in parliament about the need to implement Pakistan’s anti-rape law, following the recent high number of rape and murder cases reported.
Gul announced that for the first time, the Pakistan government is becoming a plaintiff in murder and rape cases of women and children.
She added that the government has kept aside Rs100 million from the Public Sector Development Programme (PSDP) funds for an Anti-Rape Law fund, to aide in the implementation of the law.
The Anti-Rape Ordinance was signed into law in December 2020 by Prime Minister Imran Khan under which fast-track courts would hear rape cases and reach a verdict within four months.
The law also stated that a national sex offender’s register would be created and offenders would be chemically castrated.
However, no offender has been punished under the Anti-Rape Law as of yet.

Source: Geo News

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Woman raped

KASUR: A woman was raped near Vandar village in the Sarai Mughal police limits. Fayaz’s wife was on her way when a man caught her and took her to a deserted place where he raped her. The police have registered a case.

Source: The News

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Man held for trying to rape minor granddaughter

NOWSHERA: Police has registered an FIR against an elderly man for trying to rape his five-year-old grand-daughter in Nowshera district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P).
A police official told The Express Tribune that a woman lodged an FIR with Pabbi police, stating that she gave supper to her five-year-old daughter to take it to her grandfather, but when she returned, she was crying.
“I asked the child what happened to her and she said that her grandfather Mir Basher tried to rape her but when she started crying, he left her,” she informed her, saying that the accused Mir Basher is her father-in-law and he married thrice.
“One of his wives is dead. Another one is suffering from mental ailments and the third one is living with him but even then he tried to rape my minor daughter,” she told police.
Later the father of the victim also confirmed the incident to police, on which an FIR has been registered against the accused. Police said that the accused has been booked.
“This man has been booked under section 50 and 53 of Child Protection Act (CPA) and has been arrested for trying to commit incest,” said an investigation officer.
He said that incest is more common despite a common belief that our religious society is free of such crimes.
In a separate incident a 13-year-old girl was lured and then trapped and raped in Madain, Swat. She told police that the accused Haq Nawaz called her and she went out to meet him.
“He took me to a deserted house where he raped me all night long on the promise that he will marry me. In the morning his brother came and he not only grilled Haq Nawaz for raping me but also dropped me in the marketplace,” she stated in the FIR.

Source: Express Tribune

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‘Prime suspect in minor’s rape, murder makes confession

An arrested suspect has confessed to the kidnapping, rape and murder of the six-year-old girl who went missing from Zaman Town, Korangi, officials said on Sunday.
“A suspect has confessed to the rape and murder of the child during interrogation, however, we are waiting for the DNA report of the suspect,” said Landhi SP Shahnawaz Chachar.
It is soon to make a statement about the case as the investigation is under progress, he added. According to the police, the suspect, identified as Zakir, was the driver of the rickshaw from which a witness had seen the body being thrown.
Unlike the several other suspects detained during the investigation, Zakir kept changing his statements, said the police.
The cops claim that Zakir has confessed to kidnapping the minor while she was playing outside her house during the power breakdown in their neighbourhood that night.
He then drove his rickshaw to an empty ground and raped her in the back seat of the vehicle, said the police, adding that the child was alive then.
She fell out of the rickshaw and broke her neck, Zakir told the police. The police added that the suspected rapist planned to flee the city. Hours after the incident he got tickets for Multan and was ready to escape but was arrested before he could do so.
The suspect is reportedly a father of four children himself. The minor girl was reported missing on July 29. Her body was found in a garbage dump the next morning.
The child had been subjected to torture, rape and sodomy before being murdered. Over a dozen suspects were rounded up and detained for questioning after the minor’s body was found in a garbage dump near her house after a search of nearly eight hours.
The police said they received the complaint around midnight, after the child went missing from her house in Ghous Pak area after the child went missing around 9pm.
The aggrieved family and neighbours have accused the police of delaying the investigation. Zaman Town SHO and duty officer were subsequently suspended.
The victim was shifted to Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre for medico-legal formalities and it emerged that the child had been subjected to rape, sodomy and then murder.
There were multiple injuries to the head, body, including the neck and nose, and private parts, JPMC Additional Police Surgeon Dr Summaiya Syed told The Express Tribune.
Earlier today, Sindh government spokesperson Murtaza Wahab wrote on his official Twitter handle: “DNA samples of one suspect have matched with victim child. Suspect has been arrested who has now accepted his guilt.”

Source: Express Tribune