A young woman waiting to commute at Jaranwala Road was allegedly gang-raped by six men on Thursday, ARY News reported. The woman was waiting for the conveyance at the Jaranwala Road in the limits of PS Mangatwala, after the bus, she was traveling in went out of order.
Woman waiting for transport in Lahore gang-raped by six men#ARYNews https://t.co/SfCwoPFwGk
— ARY NEWS (@ARYNEWSOFFICIAL) October 1, 2020
Moments after, she was given a lift by passing by car on the road. The woman was intoxicated by the men traveling in the car and was gang-raped by six men, the police said and added that the incident was reported on September 24.
The case of the incident has been registered, while no arrests have been made so far.
On September 9, the woman along with her children was waiting for help on the Lahore-Sialkot motorway after her car ran out of fuel when she was forcefully brought out of the car at gunpoint and gang-raped in the Gujjarpura area on the outskirts of the provincial capital.
The eight special teams — comprising personnel from the Punjab Police’s Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) and Crime Investigation Agency (CIA), Special Branch, and the Quick Response Force — almost caught him thrice in Kasur, Nankana Sahib, and Sheikhupura but he managed to evade police each time, sources added.
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So far, police have blacklisted the suspect, blocked his and his wife’s computerized national identity cards (CNICs), detained his wife, daughter, father, brother, and brother-in-law, and arrested accomplice Shafqat Ali.
Violence against women in Pakistan
It is important to recall that Pakistan ranks 150 out of 153 countries on The Georgetown Institute’s Women, Peace, and Security index ─ among the five worst countries for women in the world. According to 2016 data, 26.8 percent of Pakistani women said they have experienced intimate partner violence.
A #French_woman was gang-raped in #Pakistan’s Lahore in front of her two children.
The woman had called police when her car broke down,two men broke the car windows, dragged her out of the vehicle, and attacked and raped her multiple times in front of the children. pic.twitter.com/fTsnZP88J6
— GovernanceLive.in (@GovernanceLive) September 18, 2020
According to another report of the Aurat Foundation, Pakistan is a country where almost 70% of women are victims of domestic violence, at least once in their lives. This violence is generally committed by their intimate partners – husbands. These figures, however, do not include psychological violence, which is even more common in urban communities.
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One in every three women in Punjab aged between 15 and 64 years has suffered violence, according to a survey conducted by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). The survey funded by the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID) was the first of its kind in Pakistan in collaboration with the Bureau of Statistics and Punjab Commission on the Status of Women.