Man arrested for raping daughter

Cases of incest have been increasing in K-P

PESHAWAR:

Police have registered an FIR against a local resident of Patwar Payan village, Peshawar for raping his 14-year-old daughter.

Police told The Express Tribune that a 14-year-old girl lodged an FIR against her father Muhammad Shafiq alleging that he had been raping her for the past two years.

“An FIR was registered and the accused was arrested by the police who is a tailor. During interrogation he admitted raping his own daughter,” said a police official of Michni Gate police station, adding that the victim had been sent for medical examination and further investigation was underway.

“The girl approached a female relative who encouraged her to report the case to police so she visited the police station and lodged an FIR against her father,” he said.

The cases of incest have been on the rise in the province as previously two cases were reported from Swat district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) and another was reported from Nowshera district.

Child rights activist Imran Takkar told The Express Tribune that incest violence was more widespread than generally believed and it was not a good sign for society.

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“Children and women are the most vulnerable segment of our society and they are at high risk of rape and sexual violence even by their blood relatives,” he said, adding that most of the times such incidents are covered up by the families in order to save their ‘honour’.

A local psychiatrist Dr Iftikhar said that mothers should be educated to be aware of the possibility of incest behaviour of their husbands or sons.

“Mothers should look after their adult daughters well. They must confront bribing or threatening behaviour of their husbands or sons towards their daughters,” he maintained, saying that wives should have a healthy and loving relationship with their husbands and personally take care of them on a daily basis.

Published in The Express Tribune, November 4^th, 2021.