Pakistan: Horror of child abuse finally out in the open in Muslim Pakistan.

[Assault Rifle]

Horror of child abuse finally out in the open in Muslim Pakistan.

Stream of sexual attacks make headline news in a traditional Muslim nation that is being forced to open its eyes to heinous crimes
Monday, 14 October, 2013 [UPDATED: 10:26PM]
The Washington Post in Gujranwala

In a rural village in Pakistan's eastern rice belt, two teenage sisters left for school one recent day on a muddy village path far too narrow for cars.

Within hours, they were dead, their bodies left facedown along a swampy canal after they had been raped and shot multiple times. By the next morning, their deaths were news across Pakistan, the latest in a grisly stream of sexual attacks on minors.

"People are now reporting things, and people are now seeing children are suffering heinous, horrible crimes NARJIS ZAIDI, HUMAN RIGHTS ADVOCATE

"They were identified by their clothes," Muhammad Nazir, the victims' uncle, said. "All we know for sure: They went from their house to school, and they were murdered."

For generations, rape was a taboo subject in this conservative Muslim society. Just a decade ago, the news about the sisters might never have travelled beyond their rural area.

But thanks to a freer media and a push by child-welfare advocates to get families to report such crimes, the number of cases under investigation is rising, as is the outrage of parents, the public and advocacy groups.

"People are now reporting things, and people are now seeing children are suffering heinous, horrible crimes," said Narjis Zaidi, a human rights advocate in Islamabad.

On the same day in late September that the sisters were killed on the outskirts of Gujranwala, the body of a 13-year-old girl was found on a Karachi beach after she had been raped and killed on the way to school.

A week earlier, a five-year-old girl was raped multiple times after being kidnapped. She was then dumped outside a hospital in Lahore, Pakistan's second-largest city.

And on a single day - September 20 - Pakistan's Express Tribune reported on the alleged rape of a four-year-old boy by his school principal in Faisalabad, and the rapes of another boy, also four, and a 14-year-old girl. The teenager had been gang-raped by four men over two days.

Each case has brought new waves of angry mothers besieging police stations demanding public executions. In Karachi, after the rape of the five-year-old in Lahore, schoolgirls paraded with signs displaying a noose. In Pakistan's culturally conservative northwest, female lawmakers attempted to block roads in Peshawar to protest the crime.

"This country has gone to the dogs," said Shazia Shaheen, coordinator for the Mumkin Alliance, a Pakistan-based coalition of organisations that advocate for battered women.

Activists and government leaders note that sexual violence is hardly unique to Pakistan, citing widespread abuses across much of the Middle East and South Asia, including the brutal gang rape and murder of a 23-year-old New Delhi student in December that shocked India.

What makes the reports in Pakistan especially notable is that they have emerged at all, reflecting a broader awareness by victims and the news media.

Activists say the media attention can be credited in part to the opening of several dozen private television news stations after the government's monopoly on electronic media ended in 2002. That has led to more aggressive coverage of topics previously ignored.

Several rape cases have been well publicised in recent years, including that of Mukhtar Mai, who made international headlines after she spoke out about being gang-raped in 2002 on orders from village elders. The convictions of all but one of six men charged in connection with the case were overturned.

In Punjab, Pakistan's most-populous province, there was extensive coverage in 2010 and 2011 of a serial rapist who attacked eight children, leaving some of them dead, said Muhammad Imtiaz Ahmed, of Pakistan's Society for the Protection of the Rights of the Child.

"After that, the media, the police, educationally, all started talking about how we need to do a better job of protecting children," he said.

In Gujranwala, where the sisters' blood still stains the grass, the local police commander said he was under pressure to make an arrest. "With the media attention and pressure from higher authorities, we have to do our job," Zubar Warriach said.

Horror of child abuse finally out in the open in Muslim Pakistan | South China Morning Post

 

[Gentelman]

Looks like this Guy is sleeping in his country and don't know situation of his own country whose name even changed to Rapistan……
Wake up dude go on chk out your home fellas first……

 

[Contrarian]

Please dont take time out to quote the person above me.

On topic: Its good to see that rapes and such crimes are being reported in Pakistan as well. This increased reporting in India started about a decade back. Pakistan is particularly prone to suppression of such news - first by the families, then by the police and last by the conservative society because of tribal, feudal social norms.

Bringing these incidents and issues to public light and scrutiny is the only way to slowly reduce this menace in both India and Pakistan. Hushing it up in the name of honour only increases it.

Wish the perpetrators of this crime get caught and sentenced.

 

[[Bregs]]

This is very sad incident, its better not to indulge in country specific bashing in this horrific and gruesome acts

 

[Informant]

Guys we both have the same issues in our countries, instead of pointing fingers we should work to make a difference in regards to this problem we face.

 

[Anees]

Suprise .. News came from South China Morning Post........ True friends....

 

[Ghareeb_Da_Baal]

Looks like this Guy is sleeping in his country and don't know situation of his own country whose name even changed to Rapistan……
Wake up dude go on chk out your home fellas first……

exactly. these are the stats from a GOI Study .Although form 2007, a pretty good indication !
MAJOR FINDINGS:
It has very clearly emerged that across different kinds of abuse, it is young children, in the 5-12 year group,
who are most at risk of abuse and exploitation.
Physical Abuse
1. Two out of every three children were physically abused.
2. Out of 69% children physically abused in 13 sample states, 54.68% were boys.
3. Over 50% children in all the 13 sample states were being subjected to one or the other form of physical
abuse.
4. Out of those children physically abused in family situations, 88.6% were physically abused by parents.
5. 65% of school going children reported facing corporal punishment i.e. two out of three children were
victims of corporal punishment.
6. 62% of the corporal punishment was in goverment and municipal school.
7. The State of Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Bihar and Delhi have almost consistently reported higher rates
of abuse in all forms as compared to other states.
8. Most children did not report the matter to anyone.
9. 50.2% children worked seven days a week.
Sexual Abuse
1. 53.22% children reported having faced one or more forms of sexual abuse.
2. Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Bihar and Delhi reported the highest percentage of sexual abuse among both
boys and girls.
3. 21.90% child respondents reported facing severe forms of sexual abuse and 50.76% other forms of
sexual abuse.
4. Out of the child respondents, 5.69% reported being sexually assaulted.
5. Children in Assam, Andhra Pradesh, Bihar and Delhi reported the highest incidence of sexual assault.
6. Children on street, children at work and children in institutional care reported the highest incidence of
sexual assault.
7. 50% abuses are persons known to the child or in a position of trust and responsibility.
8. Most children did not report the matter to anyone.
Emotional Abuse and Girl Child Neglect
1. Every second child reported facing emotional abuse.
2. Equal percentage of both girls and boys reported facing emotional abuse.
3. In 83% of the cases parents were the abusers.
4. 48.4% of girls wished they were boys

The bottom line is that both people need reality check and seriously mind their own issues!

 

[third eye]

exactly. these are the stats from a GOI Study .Although form 2007, a pretty good indication !
MAJOR FINDINGS:
It has very clearly emerged that across different kinds of abuse, it is young children, in the 5-12 year group,
who are most at risk of abuse and exploitation.
Physical Abuse
1. Two out of every three children were physically abused.
2. Out of 69% children physically abused in 13 sample states, 54.68% were boys.
3. Over 50% children in all the 13 sample states were being subjected to one or the other form of physical
abuse.
4. Out of those children physically abused in family situations, 88.6% were physically abused by parents.
5. 65% of school going children reported facing corporal punishment i.e. two out of three children were
victims of corporal punishment.
6. 62% of the corporal punishment was in goverment and municipal school.
7. The State of Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Bihar and Delhi have almost consistently reported higher rates
of abuse in all forms as compared to other states.
8. Most children did not report the matter to anyone.
9. 50.2% children worked seven days a week.
Sexual Abuse
1. 53.22% children reported having faced one or more forms of sexual abuse.
2. Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Bihar and Delhi reported the highest percentage of sexual abuse among both
boys and girls.
3. 21.90% child respondents reported facing severe forms of sexual abuse and 50.76% other forms of
sexual abuse.
4. Out of the child respondents, 5.69% reported being sexually assaulted.
5. Children in Assam, Andhra Pradesh, Bihar and Delhi reported the highest incidence of sexual assault.
6. Children on street, children at work and children in institutional care reported the highest incidence of
sexual assault.
7. 50% abuses are persons known to the child or in a position of trust and responsibility.
8. Most children did not report the matter to anyone.
Emotional Abuse and Girl Child Neglect
1. Every second child reported facing emotional abuse.
2. Equal percentage of both girls and boys reported facing emotional abuse.
3. In 83% of the cases parents were the abusers.
4. 48.4% of girls wished they were boys

The bottom line is that both people need reality check and seriously mind their own issues!

Instead of shooting the messenger why dont we focus on the contents which are common across S Asia.

This story has been carried by the South China Morning Post too.

 

[third eye]

exactly. these are the stats from a GOI Study .Although form 2007, a pretty good indication !
MAJOR FINDINGS:
It has very clearly emerged that across different kinds of abuse, it is young children, in the 5-12 year group,
who are most at risk of abuse and exploitation.
Physical Abuse
1. Two out of every three children were physically abused.
2. Out of 69% children physically abused in 13 sample states, 54.68% were boys.
3. Over 50% children in all the 13 sample states were being subjected to one or the other form of physical
abuse.
4. Out of those children physically abused in family situations, 88.6% were physically abused by parents.
5. 65% of school going children reported facing corporal punishment i.e. two out of three children were
victims of corporal punishment.
6. 62% of the corporal punishment was in goverment and municipal school.
7. The State of Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Bihar and Delhi have almost consistently reported higher rates
of abuse in all forms as compared to other states.
8. Most children did not report the matter to anyone.
9. 50.2% children worked seven days a week.
Sexual Abuse
1. 53.22% children reported having faced one or more forms of sexual abuse.
2. Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Bihar and Delhi reported the highest percentage of sexual abuse among both
boys and girls.
3. 21.90% child respondents reported facing severe forms of sexual abuse and 50.76% other forms of
sexual abuse.
4. Out of the child respondents, 5.69% reported being sexually assaulted.
5. Children in Assam, Andhra Pradesh, Bihar and Delhi reported the highest incidence of sexual assault.
6. Children on street, children at work and children in institutional care reported the highest incidence of
sexual assault.
7. 50% abuses are persons known to the child or in a position of trust and responsibility.
8. Most children did not report the matter to anyone.
Emotional Abuse and Girl Child Neglect
1. Every second child reported facing emotional abuse.
2. Equal percentage of both girls and boys reported facing emotional abuse.
3. In 83% of the cases parents were the abusers.
4. 48.4% of girls wished they were boys

The bottom line is that both people need reality check and seriously mind their own issues!

Instead of shooting the messenger why dont we focus on the contents which are common across S Asia.

This story has been carried by the South China Morning Post too.

 

[Coltsfan]

Looks like this Guy is sleeping in his country and don't know situation of his own country whose name even changed to Rapistan……
Wake up dude go on chk out your home fellas first……

1) OP has posted a news report based on facts and provided link to that. If you have nothing useful to contribute to the discussion then just STFU.

2) You should be ashamed of making jokes about rape, be it in any country. Reflects poorly on the way your parents have raised you.

 

[Gentelman]

1) OP has posted a news report based on facts and provided link to that. If you have nothing useful to contribute to the discussion then just STFU.

2) You should be ashamed of making jokes about rape, be it in any country. Reflects poorly on the way your parents have raised you.

1)- go through post #7 dude……
2)- Go on fetch some sense maybe its a bit difficult to understand this………

1) OP has posted a news report based on facts and provided link to that. If you have nothing useful to contribute to the discussion then just STFU.

2) You should be ashamed of making jokes about rape, be it in any country. Reflects poorly on the way your parents have raised you.

1)- go through post #7 dude……
2)- Go on fetch some sense maybe its a bit difficult to understand this………

 

[Gautam]

Physical abuse is a common issue in South Asia. Hope we all overcome it some day.

 

[HariPrasad]

It is good that because of presence of media, this kind of heinous crime are now reported. A good sign for Pakistan.

How ever some Pakistani members are not happy with that. It seems that they want that it should not be exposed. It seems that they are more worried about some Indian member pointing a finger at them in PDF rather than the actual Child molesting and worse Human right condition in their country.

 

[JonAsad]

Muslim Pakistan?-Lol-
How do we fare when we look at Pakistan just as a country?- as it should have been-
Things seems to be quite better-
Stupid journalism-