Rape & rape victims Archive

Muslim Women Speak About Sexual Harassment in ‘Holiest City’ of Mecca:   While many Muslim women say they get a sense of serenity in Mecca, hundreds of others have spoken up over the past few days about their experiences of sexual harassment in what they thought was the “holiest city
جنسی ہراسانی اور روشن خیال مرد – حسنہ علی: جنسی ہراسانی کا کیس جو پچلے دو سالوں سے خبروں میں تھا. بلاخر اپنے انجام کو پہنچا – نامور ادیب پروفیسر سحر انصاری پر ساتھی ٹیچر ڈاکٹر نویں حیدر کو جنسی طور پر حراساں کرنے کا الزام ثابت ہوا
Return to Kasur:   EARLIER this week, the body of a six-year-old girl was recovered from a garbage heap in Kasur. It has since been confirmed that she was raped and murdered. Kasur has erupted in riots. The autopsy report is unreadable.
زینب کا خط اپنے باپ امین کے نام – عامر حسینی: پیارے بابا! میں نے اپنے خدا سے کچھ لمحات مستعار لیکر آپ کو یہ خط لکھ رہی ہوں۔آپ سے مخاطب ہونے کا خود مجھ میں حوصلہ نہیں ہے۔مگر کیا کروں آپ اور امی کی تکلیف دیکھی نہیں جاتی تو
اصل ایشو تو زینب کو انصاف دلانا ہے – ریاض ملک: ظالموں کو چھوڑ کر مظلوموں مجرم ٹھہرانے والے قافلہ یزیدیت کے سالار ہیں رانا ثناء اللہ ! شرم تم کو مگر نہیں آتی وہ لوگ جو معصوم پامالی ہوگئی مقتول بچی کے والدین کو اس قتل و ریپ کا
#JusticeForZainab – The core of the issue:   Those who are blaming the parents of this innocent victim for the horrific murder-rape of their child are regurgitating the nonsense being peddled by the Saudi-backed PML N regime and its craven Apologists. There is an epidemic of
The PML N Apologists of Child Rape:   Child rape, hate rallies and a tanking economy are clearly not the priorities of the Saudi Establishment backed PML N regime and its neoliberal Apologists. As the rest of Pakistan is horrified with the rape of an 8-year
PML N/Sipah Sahaba henchman Rana Sanaullah disparages protests against child rape:   Rana Sanaullah, senior PML N minister tells protestors against Child Rape to “not get too emotional”. This was after his police once again shot into the crowd and killed two policemen. Instead of condemning PML N for its
Deobandi Quran teacher, jailed for 13 years after carrying out sex attacks on four girls: A ‘dark and deviant’ Koran teacher has been jailed for 13 years after carrying out sex attacks on four girls during lessons in a mosque. Mohammed Haji Saddique, 81, would call the pupils to sit next to him and
British woman raped before murder according to Wahhabi Salafi religious law:   On July 30, 2016 we presaged based on evidence and media reports that the British Pakistani woman, Samia Shahid of Bradford, was murdered by her parents and former husband for marrying a Shia Muslim man as well as
Christian woman gang raped in front of 5 children in ‘Honor’ attack in Pakistan:   A Christian woman in Pakistan was beaten and gang-raped in front of her five children by a Muslim man seeking to avenge his family’s “honor,” because the woman’s sister fell in love and fled with the man’s brother.
لاہور زیادتی کیس پر نجم سیٹھی کے جانبدارانہ اور بے شرمانا تجزیے – عامر حسینی: نجم سیٹھی کہتا ہے کہ ” 15 سالہ مبینہ ریپ کا شکار ہونے والی لڑکی ڈرامہ کررہی ہے ” جبکہ آج اس لڑکی کی بہن نے بتایا کہ مبینہ گینگ ریپ کا شکار لڑکی نے پولیس کی جانب سے
I am a prince and I do what I want, said drugged-up Saudi royal: A Saudi prince, who was arrested last month at his LA mansion, is accused of having a sexual relationship with a male aide, taking cocaine and threatening to kill women who refused his advances — as well as sexually assaulting
Country’s biggest child abuse scandal jolts Punjab:     GANDA SINGH WALA – Punjab’s leading child protection official has called for a federal inquiry into ‘the largest-ever child abuse scandal in Pakistan’s history’ after the discovery of 400 videos recording more than 280 children being forced
Iraq: ISIS Escapees Describe Systematic Rape:   The extremist group Islamic State (also known as ISIS) has carried out systematic rape and other sexual violence against Yezidi women and girls in northern Iraq. Human Rights Watch conducted research in the town of Dohuk in January
لاہور کی دیوبندی مسجد میں ایک چھ سالہ معصوم کا زیادتی کے بعد قتل: لاہور کے علاقے گرین ٹاؤن کی بہار کالونی میں واقع دیوبندی مسجد میں ایک چھ سالہ معصوم بچے معین سے ہونے والی زیادتی کے بعد قتل کی اندوہ ناک خبر میڈیا پر نشر ہونے کے بعد ہر با ضمیر
Lahore and Quetta: How the media treats rape differently: In October 2013, many will still remember, a minor girl was picked up from a hospital courtyard in Lahore, raped and then let go. Albeit in terrible shape, she survived. CCTV footage that caught the main accused on tape
Thousands of Pakistani children are falling prey to paedophiles:   Ijaz, a bus conductor in his early twenties, spends his days travelling through the bustling streets of Peshawar in northern Pakistan, working hard to scrape a living. The pay is low and the hours are long, and Ijaz,
Umar Razak, the UK sex abuse monster, flies to Pakistan and says: I’m living the high life – by Jeremy Armstrong, Alun Palmer, Lucy Thornton: One of the abusers at the heart of the Rotherham child sex scandal today boasted he was “living the high life” – leaving his victim distraught. Sick Umar Razaq – released from jail after appealing the length of his
Teenage cricketer Halima Rafique dies under mysterious circumstances:   Editor’s note:  While PCB’s current chairman Najam Sethi is focused on protecting and promoting political and economic interests of his benefactors, Nawaz Sharif, Mir Shakil-ur-Rehman and CIA in particular, this the actual state/plight of cricket at grassroots level
Staring at women is an Indian pastime, even nuns get stared at: travel expert – by Prasun Sonwalkar:     Reports of rape and sexual assaults on women in India continue to make headlines in the British media as the Foreign Office advisory asks women travelling to India to exercise caution and one India travel expert concludes
Boy strangulated after being tortured – by Obaid Abbasi:   Police believe the 10-year-old boy was sexually assaulted before being killed. PHOTO: FILE ISLAMABAD:The body of a 10-year-old seminary student was found in the Koral area late on Wednesday. He had allegedly been sexually-assaulted by an unidentified person
دیوبندی مدرسہ مہتمم کی لڑکیوں سے زیادتی: Source : http://ummatpublication.com/2014/05/14/news.php?p=news-84.gif مدرسہ مہتمم اور اس کا گروہ لڑکیوں کے ساتھ زنا بالجبر کا گینگ چلا رہا ہے۔ مذہبی اثر و رسوخ کی وجہ سے پولیس ہاتھ نہیں ڈالتی اور ہر دفعہ بچ نکلتا ہے۔ اب ہمارے بعض
Females face rape, harassment in Pakistan -by Avinash Advani: “Bravery, give up, willpower, commitment, hardiness, sympathy, ability, guts. That’s what girls are made of; the heck with sugar and spice.” While in Pakistan it is absolutely descending and they are victimizing the rape. Recently Muzafargarh issue has shown
As many as 91 per cent of female domestic workers say they have suffered sexual abuse – by Hassan Naqvi:   A Filipina maid cleans a mirror during a crash course in domestic duties on September 14, 2011. PHOTO: AFP/FILE LAHORE:“As many as 91 per cent of female domestic workers say they have suffered sexual abuse,” Munawar Sultana, senior
A nightmare while I was awake – by Qurat ul ain Haider Zaidi: Mama and Baba can we go back to home. You know I am scared I am in terrible pain-why I cannot speak anything. This is unfathomable for me. I am uncharacteristically nervous! I want to become free I want
Pinpricks of our conscience – by Alizeh Khaleeli:   The Bold font of a daunting question; ‘Are you a Responsible Muslim’ plastered on a flyer, slipped under my door and posted randomly everywhere near my home. It is a weekend class which promises once again in bold font to
Delhi gang rape verdict: Is it a crime to be born a girl in India? – by Maheen Usmani: After the verdict, the family could not contain their grief with the mother saying the court might just as well acquit the rapist. PHOTO: AFP She came from a small town in Uttar Pradesh, but she had big dreams.
Heinous crimes in a misogynist society that validates and perpetuates rape – by A Z: A glimpse into the heinous crimes that are rife in our society but very few come to light. No wonder in a misogynist society that validates and perpetuates rape a major serious newspaper fails to make the distinction between
PIA sexual harassment issue: former medical officer reported incident after a month – by Meher Ali: A female medical officer at Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) has lodged a complaint against five men, including PIA’s chief medical officer for Karachi, a deputy medical officer, lab assistant and an ambulance driver, accusing them of attempting to rape
ڈی این اے , رحمت کا فرشتہ – سعدیہ نواز:   انصاف سب کیلیےامریکی ریاست مشی گن کے شہر ڈیٹرائٹ میں 54 سالہ شخص ایڈی جو للیڈ کو سترہ سال جیل میں گزارنے کے بعد 6 جون 2013 کو رہای نصیب ہوئ، اس پر الزام تھا کہ اسنے ایک
A license to rape – by Murtaza Hassan: A series of events in the past few weeks have again highlighted the injustices being committed against women in the name of Islam in Pakistan. Recently, the three accused of raping an 18-year old woman at Jinnah’s Mausoleum were
Pakistan Council of Islamic Ideology: Don’t let DNA con justice in a rape case – by A Z: The Council of Islamic Ideology (CII), that great avant-garde enabler of Islamic Ideology in the Land of Pure, has decreed today that the DNA evidence does not comprise a substantial proof for conviction in rape cases. The Council opined
According to Jamaat-e-Islami’s Munawar Hasan, it ain’t rape without four witnesses: I found this argument by Munawar Hassan of the religio-political party Jamaat-i-Islami to be unbelievably disgusting and fundamentally blasphemous in the way he invokes the Qur’an to justify blatant misogyny: http://youtu.be/-nQTTDCromw Anchor: Why did you vehemently oppose the women protection
Silent victims -by Shama Junejo: She was raped at the age of ten; she remained silent all these years. Believing that it was not him but her fault, believing that guilty was not that Pied Piper but her. She faced post traumatic stress syndrome
Is rape more common in the USA?: Things can get confusing for a lot of people. Why are USA rape statistics  so high? And if rape is so common in the USA, why do Pakistani women still feel safer living here in the USA as compared
A woman is not a lollipop! – by Shazia Nawaz: India’s brutal gang rape has shocked the world. But this was also an opportunity for us to look inside the minds of average Pakistani and Indian people. Not only several Indian and Pakistani men, but a few Indian women
Rape-protectionism in Pakistan and the role of political parties: Rape is a heinous crime.  It is reflection of a system that is based on coercion and intimidation for those daring to confront the status quo.  In India, the realization has reached its people who are shocked to see
Politics of Rape: Rahila Tiwana 15 December 1990: The CIA (Crime Investigation Agency ) treated me like notorious criminal. Repeatedly they pulled my hair and slapped me on my ace . The wanted to make a false sexual allegation against Asif Zardari (Benazir Bhutto’s jailed husband )
Genocide of Bengal 1971: All India Muslim League was founded in Bengal, Pakistan Resolution was forwarded and presented by Late. Maulvi Fazle Haq but his name is not on the Minar-e-Pakistan, Lahore. The vote of Bengalis was 62% for Pakistan. In a memorable