Punjab

Man raped and beaten after being offered a lift

3 motorists abducted Raza and took him to an outhouse where he was raped.

Express April 11, 2011

RAHIM YAR KHAN:

Three drunk motorists allegedly raped and beat up a man who asked for a lift on Saturday evening.

According to police officials, Iqbalabad Rehmat Colony resident Kashif submitted an application with the police stating that he was sodomised and brutally beaten by three men.

Raza said that he was waiting by the road looking for a lift when a white car approached him on Saturday evening. One of the motorists, Muhammad Riaz was an acquaintance and he offered Raza a lift to his house. “He came out of the car and asked me where I was headed. Then he offered me a lift and I got in,” Raza said.

Raza said that the three men kept drinking in the car and forced him to join them at gunpoint.

“The moment I got in they pointed a gun at me,” he said. Raza said that he was drugged and taken to an outhouse where he was raped.
“When I regained consciousness I was at an unknown place.

They had beaten me through the night,” he said. Raza said that Muhammad Riaz, Maulvi Attique and an unidentified man beat him up and sodomised him and a medical test confirmed that he had been sexually assaulted.

“He has lots of bruises and he was raped,” Dr Shakeel, at the DHQ hospital said. Police officials have registered a case against the accused and are searching for their whereabouts.

*All names in the story have been changed to protect the identity of the victim

Published in The Express Tribune, April 11^th, 2011.

COMMENTS (32)

goggi | 13 years ago | Reply @Grace: Child Abuse and all sorts of sexuell perversions are in fact the stigma of almost all western european countries and the pioneer is the Catholic church, the biggest paedophile ring in the world. A report was published from a very renowned german magazine DER SPIEGEL in feb. 2010 that nearly 100 clerics had been suspected of abusing children and teenagers nationwide since 1995. The abuse of children by members of the clergy remains one of the most difficult issues for the church. The Vatican had then accepted the resignations of several Irish bishops after a report by the Irish Government detailed the physical, sexual and emotional Abuse of children by Catholic priests in church-run residential schools. Pope bendict at the Vatican, told members of the Pontifical Council for the Family that he condemned the abuse of children by members of the clergy. In 2010 the child abuse scandal in the USA costed the catholic church more then §3 billion but only a very small fraction of offenders was jailed. The catholic Church has sex abuse scandals in every western country and nobody knows exactly the real number of the crimes committed from priests towards children, teenagers and women. Sigmund Freud wrote, "the human is a polymorph perverses being" and unfortunately the world is full of them! The question is not whether they are muslims or christians, the question is how to cure them humanly!! kheer ho aap ki

goggi | 13 years ago | Reply I quote a verse of Baba Bulleh Shah which exposes such fake clergymen: "BULLEHYA MULLAN TEY MASCHALCHI DOHAN IKO CHIT LOKAN KARDEY CHANANAn AAP HANEREY NIT ......Bulleh the Mulla and the torch-bearer are in a way alike, themselves in the dark show others light! And Kabir sahib wrote: when the guru be blind and the disciple be blind when the blind follows the blind both fall in the well! Dear sisters and brothers, this is the tragedy of our society that we blindly follow all lallu-panju spiritual and political leaders, who themselves are blind and ignorant and thus the result: our society has stumbled in total anarchy! When the normal biological flow of the body is repressed or disturbed, either physically or emotionally, then inevitably it leads to psychological problems, anger or perversions of all kinds. We experience the "effects" of these perversions in our daily life, in form from suicide killings, rapes, violence against children and women etc. etc. etc. whereas the "causes" are so deep rooted in our collective conscious! These rape offenders are themselves victims, perhaps abused in their childhood!! may the divine light be with us and enlighten our minds

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Naushad Shafkat | 13 years ago | Reply I almost said 'Thank God a Maulvi was involved!".

M Ali Khan | 13 years ago | Reply @Goga: shariah law will stop all the sexual frustration in society? HA!

Hassan | 13 years ago | Reply @goggi: @Goga: Well said gentlemen, men have never been safe, and homosexuality is rife in our wonderful islamic republic. But it's ok because it's the islamic republic, if you are homosexual in the western world then the mullahs will pass a death sentence on you.

Shafqat Ali Khan | 13 years ago | Reply Who so were must be dealt according to law and it was very unfortunate incident. I really appreciate RAZA courage to report it.

Riz | 13 years ago | Reply Yeah!! In Pakistan, it is always victim`s fault and perpetrator is always innocent as he/she somehow is always resourceful and powerful.Ever heard of word "courtesy"????.

Goga | 13 years ago | Reply Wow not even men are safe now...this is the limit...time we get Sharia law in this country

Grace | 13 years ago | Reply @kamal: Why do these things only go on mostly in Muslim countries like Saudi Arabia, Iran and Egypt? Male rape is so common in Afghanistan that they call it Bache Bazi. This is why Afghanistan is called Assghanistan in western countries do to male sodomy practice. When will Muslim societies stop sexually abusing others?

S Quraeshi | 13 years ago | Reply Why have you given these people any names? This is not fiction! While stating facts you state names and then a disclaimer in the end. How irresponsible! This could have been handled in a reponsible fashion. Causing controversy and peddling smut isn't going to get you far.

Henna | 13 years ago | Reply Maybe "Maulvi" was his title, not name? I don't think that's a name anyway... is it?

fatimaah | 13 years ago | Reply i agree with umair waheed sheikh he must not ask for lift,anyhow its was a pathethic xperience!

Umair Waheed Sheikh, Khayban e Hafiz,IBA Karachi | 13 years ago | Reply Well it was the victim's fault as well to a degree. He could have not taken the lift. There is never a free lunch!

Naveed | 13 years ago | Reply It is often witnessed that the lack of open scrutiny and debate with these so-called molvis by their followers including the passivity of the Muslim community, is leading to the shameful abuse of power. If one is to tackle the growing reports of such heinous crimes, then their credibility and model citizenship should withstand critique, hence acting as an additional safeguard...inshAllah

goggi | 13 years ago | Reply Once, long ago I met a german man who spoke fluent Urdu which he had learned during his education in Government College, Lahore. I asked him naive whether he is a muslim from confession and he replied humbly in Urdu, "musalman to ham sab hen magar ham me momin kitne hen!" Hmmm his answer still haunts my conscience. Dear brothers and sisters, growing a 2 feet long whiskerless beard does not give anyone a licence of a superman in the society. It is the education of the eye, it is the taming of the senses which makes a human momin. The editors are no way anti-maulvis to associate the word maulvi with this report. Such maulvis are no more then berupias disguised as holy preachers. Do you people know how many halala maulvis exist in our country and how they interpretate and misuse islam?

Angelos | 13 years ago | Reply How can you say he is maulvi??? stop that blind bias

Anwar | 13 years ago | Reply The police know the names of the rapists. Let's see how soon is justice served.

Hassaan Islam | 13 years ago | Reply Why do people automatically assume that the rapists were Molvis ?? WERE THEY?

nasir | 13 years ago | Reply this is very very wrong. these acts in our country is done by wildly people. we should punish them.

Ahsan | 13 years ago | Reply what has this story to do with madrassahs n maulvis? :s I think the writer explicitly mentioned in the end "*All names in the story have been changed to protect the identity of the victim" atleast read the whole thing before jumping to conclusions...

Faizan Subzwari | 13 years ago | Reply "...resident Kashif submitted an application"... "Raza said that he was waiting by the road looking for a lift.." What was the victim's name again? I think you need to keep to one pseudo name. Despicable and heinous crime nonetheless. Should be condemned on all forums and platforms.

kamal | 13 years ago | Reply Get in line sodomized man... Reality check: No one gets hanged in pak.. Infact no one gets justice.. . Even if there found judiciary will free them.. No justice.. Sialkot victims still searching for justice. Judiciary has video. E vidence as well but still no justice. Still no death penalty..

salarzai | 13 years ago | Reply @farhan jawwad: the name moulvi attique has been changed.stop sayin moulvi to every bearded man.ppl like u r spreading hatred in society against those islamist who want a true islam.there r bad ppl everywhere but it does not meaan u start abusing them by sayin moulvi.

PakCricFanatic | 13 years ago | Reply Stop bashing the maulvis for no reason. "All names in the story have been changed to protect the identity of the victim"

Adbawany | 13 years ago | Reply Nobody seems to be complaining about the easy availabilty of drugs and other alcoholic material. It things like these that have such horrible consequences and such incidents follow. It is not maulviISM that has anything to do with it. Just a few months back, a lady met similar fate. According to reports, she had been travelling back home from some party and a couple or three guys chased her and something bad happened. There was no maulvi invloved, infact, it was reported that the guys came from good influential families. Then less than a couple of years back, a gang of ladies victimmed a man. None of them wore a burqa. P.S. it is not cool to blame it all on Islam. Get a life.

Aslam Panday | 13 years ago | Reply Sick! Find them and hang them!

Javed Afridi | 13 years ago | Reply Fool you are as is the author of the story, who used the word Maulvi with one of the accused name. Read the note at the end of the story: *All names in the story have been changed to protect the identity of the victim.

:| | 13 years ago | Reply The names have been changed. He might not even be a maulvi. Just goes to show you lot's blind bias.

Faisal Khan | 13 years ago | Reply -> maulvi attique what you do in your madrassas you can’t go around doing to the public. This is so true. Sodomy in Madrassa's is oh-so-common!

Waqas Kazmi | 13 years ago | Reply Very unfortunate!

saad nasser | 13 years ago | Reply maulvi attique what you do in your madrassas you can't go around doing to the public.

farhan jawwad | 13 years ago | Reply what about all the hatred directed towards gays in our society & now this maulvi attique goes about raping men!! just like all those fire breathing maulvis who rape small boys in mosques & madrassas with impunity & without fear as they know that no media person or anyone else will dare do a story on a man with a beard,then these same maulvis go around condeming gays & spreading hate against them. What religious hypocrisy & double standards ,it's time we stopped fearing men with beards and women in burkas or abayas.these people use their religiosity to blackmail the rest of society.

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