Pakistan's 'shame': Rape cases in 2012

While the New Delhi gang rape case has resulted in outrage that has spilled into the streets across the border, the plight of women who have faced rape and sexual assault in Pakistan has been largely confined to formulaic articles in the press, slow-moving cases in the courts, and frequent dropped charges due to bribes, threats of further violence and family pressure on the victim to avoid further ‘shame’.

In 2012, The Express Tribune covered over 150 reports on cases of rape and their follow-ups across the country, but the actual number of incidents is likely much higher as the stigma of rape, treatment meted out by police officials and low prosecution rates makes this crime largely unreported.

While statistics are few and far between, according to a November report by the Awaz Foundation Centre for Development, as many as 2,713 cases of violence against women have been reported in 15 districts of southern Punjab since January 2012, giving some measure of the scale of the issue.

As such, the reports below can only be considered a small snapshot of the violence being wrought on the women of Pakistan.

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2012: Rape cases in Pakistan reported by The Express Tribune

 

	December 2012
1	Case registered against man for ‘raping’ daughter-in-law	Tariq*, a resident of Choa Saidan Shah District Chakwal, was accused of raping his 24-year-old daughter-in-law and mother of two kids.
2	FIR registration: Judge directs woman to approach SHO	Salim’s son Haider* raped the victim and then detained her for several days.
3	Political worker accused of raping Hindu girl	A 14-year-old Hindu girl, N, was raped allegedly by a local leader of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP).
4	Karak murder case: Alleged murderer arrested on court premises	Ibrahim is one of the accused in the murder of alleged rape victim Uzma Ayub’s brother.
5	Bilawal sends flowers to rape victim, vows action	Bilawal Bhutto Zardari sent a bouquet to six-year-old rape victim of Umerkot district.
6	Twenty months later, rape survivor Kainat fights on	Sindh High Court issued warrants to arrest two of the four suspects, who were all acquitted of rape charges in May 2010.
7	Heinous crime: ‘Child rapist, murderer’ arrested	Accused first raped and then strangled the girl. He left her body behind a local school and fled.
8	Strange but true: Police register rape case against eight-year-old	Mankera police in Bhakkar arrested him for allegedly raping two women.
9	Under attack: Journalists threatened for reporting rape case	Reporter received threatening calls for reporting the rape of a six-year-old girl in Meghwadh colony.
10	Justice delayed: LHC asks judge to probe rape case	The accused took her daughter to a house in Model Town, raped her and threw the girl in critical condition in front of her relatives’ house.
11	Accountability: Two rapists jailed for life, fined	Muhammad Afzal and Muhammad Waqas accused of kidnapping and raping man’s daughter.
12	Abduction: Child left with internal injuries	9-year-old son, a grade four student, was kidnapped by three men.
13	Suo motu: LHC seeks report on gang rape	Gang rape of a woman and her daughter in Chakwal, led by the woman’s ex-husband and her daughter’s father.
14	Abuse: Five-year-old girl allegedly raped	The girl went missing while she was playing on the street outside her house.
15	Raped for seeking justice	Cruelty seems to know no bounds in our country with even fewer regards given to basic human rights.
	November 2012
1	Five peasant girls gang-raped for ‘demanding wages’	Five peasant girls were gang raped by their employers, because the girls asked them for their wages.
2	Police rape — a grave failure	The gang-rape case of a 13-year-old female child victim in Ratta Amral, Rawalpindi, spoke of the baseness of human nature.
3	Kainat was denied justice but wins battle for compensation	Four men kept the 13-year old Kainat in their custody for four days and subjected her to sexual assault.
4	Tribal (in)justice: 9-year-old girl given in Vani to settle dispute	Village council ordered a father to hand over his nine-year-old daughter as compensation in a rape case.
5	Men remanded on charges of rape	The men have also been accused of trying to sell 11-year-old S and her 13-year-old friend into prostitution.
6	9-year-old girl awarded as ‘compensation’ in rape case	The worker, Arshad, who goes by one name, was accused of involvement in the abduction and rape of landowner Ali Sher’s daughter.
7	Crime: Suspected child murderer arrested	The victim’s two children were injured in the incident, of which one of them died at a hospital.
8	Police recover woman forced into prostitution	Victim said she was raped for three months by ‘clients’ as well as Iqbal. She said another pimp also raped her.
9	Harrowing Journey: Kidnapped girl produced in court	‘A’ said that her kidnapper repeatedly raped her and then brought her to Sohrab Machi in Ratodero, where she was sold for Rs50,000.
10	Violence Against Women: 2,713 cases reported in 2012 so far	304 cases of rape registered since January 2012.
11	Violence against women: Three women beaten and humiliated	Shah Jamal police said Rohina, not her real name, was allegedly gang-raped by four men. She told police that the men also shaved her head.
	October 2012
1	Age dispute: Boy arrested for child rape	Father of the girl said that the boy was 15, but the police and the boy’s family claimed he was 10 years old.
2	Child homicide: Ten months on, Anti-Terrorism Court II yet to hear case	The girl in the morgue had been allegedly raped, strangled to death and her eyes gouged out.
3	Alleged rape victim sent home from Darul Aman	Victim said she was picked up near a market by three police personnel, who raped and tortured her for three days at the Mansehra City Police Station.
4	Sexual exploitation: ‘Nurse lured to big city, forced into prostitution’	Victim warned not to tell anyone of the incident as they had made a video of it and would upload it on YouTube if she didn’t remain quiet.
5	Unidentified armed bandits: Residents panic as gang rape, looting increases	Incident of around 20 men entering three houses and raping women in Mullazai village has also been associated with the group.
	September 2012
1	Cleric’s daughter stripped, paraded naked in village	The daughter of a cleric was allegedly paraded nude in a village by young men seeking revenge for her brother’s ‘indiscretions’.
2	Crime against children: Six-year-old girl critical after sexual assault	Suspects raped her and later abandoned her outside her home in an unconscious condition.
3	Crime: Man held for attempted rape	Suspect was arrested in a position with his trousers down and the girl crying in his arms.
4	Conflicting claims: Rape victim retracts statement	While negating the claim she had made before the media and the judicial magistrate, she said she was not raped but was tortured physically.
5	Threatened: Gang rape victim fears for her life	While 20-year-old Bisma* wants to see them punished by the courts, she fears that the threats to her and her family will derail the process.
6	Kidnap, sexual assault: Girl to continue testimony against suspects on Monday	The girl said she had been drugged and kidnapped from Karachi two years ago by Jano Mai.
7	Violence: Man arrested for sexually assaulting minor girl	Maheen* Bibi, 5, went to her paternal uncle’s house, where her first cousin Tanveer*,14, forcibly took her to a room and assaulted her.
8	Lured to capital for a job, woman gang raped	An assistant director of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) and an industrialist were among the three men arrested.
9	Rape, murder of niece: Rapist says actions were motivated by a fictional character	Khan said that he was reading a fictional story from an Urdu digest wherein a character used to kill his girl victims after raping them.
10	Incest case: Young woman ‘raped’, tortured by father	On the complaint of a neighbour, the police raided Sameer’s flat and found Sajida, still in chains.
11	Crime: Teenager rapes, murders minor niece	Perpetrator said he first hid the girl in a cupboard but for fears of being caught, he dumped her body in a nearby stream.
12	Brutal murders: Two boys found dead, rape suspected	Father accused eight men, with whom he had had a property dispute, of kidnap, rape and murder.
13	Gang rape: Case registered 12 days after victim dropped off at police station	The men took her to a house in the outskirts of the city and raped her for four days before dropping her off at the police station.
14	Hindu gang rape survivor warns of suicide	The married woman was allegedly gang-raped by influential men of the Allah Rakhio Mahar village.
15	Murder: Nine-year-old girl raped, killed	Autopsy revealed that the girl was sexually assaulted multiple times and then killed.
16	Crime and punishment: Three arrested in two sexual assault cases	One of the suspects was a minibus driver who had found the child alone in Hafizabad and offered her a ride.
17	Heinous crime: Minor allegedly raped by school students	A seven-year-old boy was allegedly raped by two students of class 9 and 10.
18	In Pakistan, crimes against women increased by 7% this year	57 districts reported 982 cases in May 2012.
	August 2012
1	Seeking justice: FIR lodged against four accused of rape	Her family told the media that if justice is denied, S and her family will commit suicide in protest.
2	Heinous crime: Minor girl raped	Maryam Bibi*, had gone to a nearby shop and was returning home when Muhammad Irfan* forcibly took her to a nearby field and raped her.
3	Rape case: Kainat asks for promised compensation	The Sindh High Court has asked the Sindh government to consider paying the full compensation amount to rape survivor Kainat Soomro on humanitarian grounds.
4	Teenager, five-year-old abducted, raped	Girl was kept in a room and subjected to rape for five consecutive days.
5	Minor raped: Shopkeeper forces himself on girl	Victim had gone to buy milk from Rajput’s shop who pushed her into an adjacent room and raped her.
6	Rape case: Court issues non bailable arrest warrants for three police officers	Rape victim had allegedly been taken away by some policemen from her home for a DNA test.
7	Criminal minds: Girl gang-raped, left to die	S had gone out to buy sweets in the Rasuh Mori area in Kotri.
8	Assault on a minor: Father lodges FIR against four men	The girl was reportedly abducted by armed men and taken to an undisclosed location.
9	‘Rape during police detention’: Two SHOs suspended, inquiry committee formed	Sophia* claimed she had been gang-raped by nine police officials of Mansehra and Kaghan for five days.
10	Child abuse: Police arrest rape suspect	Shaukhat sexually assaulted the girl in the guestroom of his house, following which she had to be rushed to the hospital in a critical condition.
11	Illegal detention: Teenaged girl allegedly gang-raped by Mansehra police	A teenager, who eloped with the boy of her dreams, ended up a rape victim after he abandoned her.
12	Crime: Two men detained in child rape case	Suspect’s family was threatening father of victim with dire consequences if he did not withdraw the FIR.
13	Heinous crime: Pregnant rape victim asked to deliver baby	The court has bound rape victim to give birth to the illegitimate child, whose chances of survival are slim.
	July 2012
1	Sexual assault: Four men remanded to police for three days	Victim sexually assaulted for three days before the suspects abandoned her in a field near her home.
2	Gender-based crime: Assault case against 6, including 3 cops	Victim said she was attacked by the rape suspects and their lawyer.
3	‘Panchayat raj’ and a woman stoned	Maryam Bibi was cutting grass in the fields of a local landlord who forced her to submit to his sexual advances. When she refused, the landlord levelled allegations against the woman.
4	Finally home: After 3-year ordeal, girl gets freedom	The accused allegedly raped her and she gave birth to a boy, who is now two years old.
5	Domestic violence against women surges by 25%: Report	10.88% decrease in incidents of rapes and gang rapes of women in 2011.
6	Sexual assault: Three held on rape charges	Bibi, a mother of four, said that the three men entered her house at night while she was asleep with her children and fled after raping her.
7	Law and order: Rape victim attacked in front of court	Sexual assault victim and her brother were beaten up allegedly by one of the two men accused of raping her.
8	Heinous crime: Woman abducted, gang raped	Three men took the victim to some unknown place and raped her repeatedly for two days.
9	Abduction: Woman ‘raped by three villagers’	The woman said that seven men from the village had jumped her when she reached the village well.
10	Caught, escaped, killed: Fugitive in child rape and murder case shot, killed	A child rape and murder suspect was shot and killed in an encounter.
11	Acid attack: Mother, son sent to jail	Danish had tried to rape the victim, while she was visiting their house. When she screamed for help, he and Nasreen threw acid at her.
	June 2012
1	Ratta Amral rape case: Punjab IGP, prosecutor summoned	Supreme Court summoned IG Punjab, prosecutor for second time in rape case of 13-year-old. A resident of Ratta Amral had alleged that three men forcibly took his daughter to their house and raped her in March.
2	Activists demand end to out-of-court rape case settlements	A domestic worker was abducted and reportedly raped by a lawyer in DHA and police pressurized the victim to take back the case. Activists demanded lawyer’s license to be revoked.
3	Narowal village: Christian family pleads for justice after child rape, stillbirths	A 13-year-old Christian girl was drugged and raped by her employee and his friends on March 29. The accused tortured the family into withdrawing case. Police started siding with the accused and declared one accused innocent.
4	Ratta Amral case: Scolded for laxity, Punjab police chief and prosecutor told to submit report today	Supreme Court expresses dismay over attitude of police officials in the case, “who collude with the aggressors instead of the helping the victims”.
5	Combating subversion: SC asks LHC to hear gang rape case appeal	An illegal jirga held in Ratta Amral reached an out-of-court settlement of a rape case. Punjab prosecutor general files appeal against the acquittal of the accused men, which is forwarded to LHC by SC.
6	Five girls gang-raped by border military police	Five teenage girls reached Fort Monro hill station from Lahore for vacations. They were held captive and gang-raped by border military police.
7	Barbarism: 13-year-old raped, forced to swallow acid	A balloon-seller’s daughter got abducted by a shopkeeper in Bahawalpur when she went to buy some eatables. He took her to a school building to rape her.
8	Fort munro incident: President orders action against ‘rapists’	Interior Minister also took notice of five teenage girls being raped by border military police, sought report from Punjab chief secretary and IG Punjab.
9	Fort Munro gang rape: Three border police officials surrender	Two accused remained at large, one claimed the victims were “call girls”. Victims said they could recognize all the accused.
10	45-year-old woman raped to settle loan	Farid Gul from Peshawar offered relative to sleep with his 45-year-old wife to settle a loan.
11	Karak rape case: Investigation team submits polygraph test results	Uzma Ayub was allegedly raped by 13 people, including three police officials in 2010. The Peshawar High Court had ordered that 17 people, including the victim, be tested after DNA tests failed to identify the culprits.
12	‘Rape’: Father approaches court for ‘fair probe’	Mian Ali Imran’s daughter was promised a job by a woman and was raped on April 19 when she went for the job interview. Imran said police took bribe from the suspect to declare the rape as “consensual sex” in the report.
13	Fort Monroe station: Three border policemen remanded in rape case	Preliminary investigations revealed victims had hidden their true identity. Husband of one victim said police investigators had beaten two girls to make them change their statements.
14	Fort Munro victims' alleged perpetrators undergo medical, DNA tests	Five teenage girls reached Fort Monro hill station from Lahore for vacations. They were held captive and gang-raped by border military police.
15	Child rape: DSP, SHO suspended for negligence	A class two student in Faisalabad was abducted by three teenage boys at gunpoint. They took her to a house and raped her, filming and taking pictures of her.
16	Rape allegations: Factory area SHO suspended	Lahore Cantt SP was directed to register FIR against SHO and four other constables for alleged rape. There were no details of the rape.
17	Six-year-old ‘sexually assaulted’, murdered	A 6-year-old girl found strangled to death in Jaranwala after she had gone missing a day earlier. Police registered case of murder and said rape section will be added to FIR if autopsy confirms rape.
18	Uzma Ayub hearing: PHC dismisses Karak rape case, tells trial court to take over	Uzma Ayub said she did not want to contest the case any longer. Court said four inquiries were done but it could not reach any conclusion.
19	Heinous crime: Two deaf-mute sisters gang-raped	Two sisters taken to Naseem’s house who allegedly runs a brothel. Then they were taken to an unknown place on a rickshaw, where they were sedated and raped for two days. They were thrown semi-conscious, semi-naked on the roads later.
20	Sexual assault: Four accused of raping a neighbour	Saleem accuses two neighbours and two unidentified people in Bahawalpur for kidnapping and sexually assaulting him on gunpoint.
21	‘Police inaction’ in rape case condemned	A 15-year-old girl was sexually assaulted for over eight months by her colleague. The colleague had promised to marry her but turned her away after learning about her pregnancy.
22	Crimes against our children rise	Six-year-old girl in Karachi was abducted by three men, who kept her in a windowless room, repeatedly assaulted her. They later strangled her, gouged out her eyes and dumped her body.
23	Fort Munro gang rape: DNA report finds one official guilty	One border military force official found guilty of raping Salma* – one of the five girls who were gang-raped in Fort Monro.
24	WAR seminar: Research points to systemic imbalances in prosecuting rapists	War Against Rape researchers lament that country’s law books were devoid of specific punishments for object rape, incest, digital rape necrophilia, marital rape and other forms of sexual violence.
25	Kidnap-murder: Rickshaw driver confesses to killing six-year-old girl	Rickshaw driver Nadeem strangled a barber’s daughter in Faisalabad after raping her and then dumped the body in a field.
	May 2012
1	Acid attacks: Police delays suspect’s production ‘to complete interrogation’	Shazia Bibi* from Muradpur Basti accused Hussain, and his two accomplices of kidnapping her and trying to rape her. She said the three men threw acid on her and fled.
2	Crime: Teenager arrested in child rape case	Medical examination confirms that a teenage boy raped a four-year-old relative when her parents were away from home.
3	Siding with bad guys: Punjab police officials found guilty of negligence	Inquiry report said police officials were guilty of delaying the registration of FIR in the Ratta Amral gang-rape case.
4	Man, daughter attempt self-immolation	Abdul Rasheed from Javed Colony said a relative Shahid and Nadeem had kidnapped his 15-year-old daughter on February 18. Girl said she was raped for 15 days.
5	Vigilante justice: Man beaten up, paraded ‘for visiting woman’	A woman’s relatives in Faisalabad accuse a man of trying to break into her house. Police registered rape case against the man on complaint filed by the woman’s uncle.
6	Sexual assault: Family asked to back up charge with medical report	Eight-year-old girl was raped by teacher at her seminary during the lunch break on March 12. The suspect had also raped four other students whose parents had earlier been reluctant to take the matter to the police.
7	Heinous Crime: Stepfather assaults daughter	Seven-year-old, M, was allegedly sexually assaulted by her stepfather, AS and his friends at her home when her mother was out.
8	Ratta Amral rape case: Suspended DSP challenges police order in LHC	DSP was earlier suspended for misuse of authority and delaying the registration of the rape case by almost one month.
9	Sexual assault: Woman sent to Nishter Hospital	A woman in Multan was kidnapped and raped on May 6 by unidentified men. She said she was cut by razor blades on resisting the assault.
10	Police finally register rape case	Girl’s family said a hotel owner wanted illicit relations with the girl but she refused. He picked her from her home, took her away and raped her.
11	Busted: Man arrested for raping daughter-in-law	R was raped by her father-in-law when she was alone at home. She informed her husband, whom she had married nine months ago, of the incident but he “tortured” her and kept her in detention.
12	Three cops arrested for delaying case registration	Rawalpindi police had registered a criminal case against three for one-month delay in the registration of Ratta Amral rape case.
13	Swindled: Woman raped by spiritual healer	Zarrina Bibi, 22, resident of Chowk Taranda Mohammad Panah, said that she had visited the man to get a charm.
14	No escape: Beaten, humiliated, charged with rape	Residents of Chak 662 beat a man after a woman accused him of entering her sister-in-law’s room and raping her while the men of the family were away at work.
15	Forensic evidence: LHC dismisses bail plea of rape accused	Rao Hanif raped his niece for five months at her house and left her pregnant.
16	Samples sent for DNA test	A 10-year-old girl was abducted on her way home from her school in Mohallah Nokar of Lahore and raped on May 15.
17	Gang rape: Burki police yet to arrest suspects	On May 18 Fariha* and Fauzia* of Phularwan village, Lahore were pulled into crop fields by three men, identified as Naseem Akram, Jameel Akbar and Kaka. Fariha was gang raped by the men.
18	Sixth grade student allegedly raped, police seeking suspect	A 13-year-old girl in Islamabad  claimed she was returning from school while a young boy with a knife threatened to kill her. He took her to a secluded place near a stream and raped her.
19	Sexual slavery: SHO directed to hear woman’s complaint	A woman was lured to the City Railway Station by Jahangir, Khandad, Sabir and Chanda Bibi on the pretext that they had arranged a job for her. They took her to Victoria Restaurant where they kept her hostage for a year and a half in a room, repeatedly raped by various men who would pay her captors.
20	At gun point: Woman raped by brother in-law	A woman was allegedly raped by her brother-in-law on gun-point in Taranda Saway Khan when her husband was out of town.
21	Grieving family accuse police of protecting landlord behind murder	Shumaila Parveen, 16, was stabbed to death at her home on May 18, allegedly by a landlord and his servant. They had allegedly tried to rape her before killing her.
22	Follow up: Cases filed against 35 for rape and torture	A man had married a widow from his neighbourhood and moved to Jhang. The woman's family registered an abducting case against the man and accused him of “wooing” their daughter into marrying him. They later abducted he and his wife and beat him in public.
	April 2012
1	Medical exam confirms rape of child	A four-year-old girl was raped and thrown in a field where she was found lying unconscious by a relative.
2	Gang rape case: Of 6 suspects police manage to arrest just one	Two girls, both students of class 9, were abducted from Jhangi Syeda and raped by six men.
3	Where is one safe?: LGH clerk suspended over kidnap and rape charges	Muhammad Rizwan, a hospital clerk, abducted a 29-year-old patient with help from two accomplices and took her to a quarter on Ghazi Road in Millat Park, where she was raped.
4	Rape victim downs over 40 pills	The two ninth graders were allegedly abducted from a street while returning from school by six men. They were taken to a nearby real estate office and were raped for hours.
5	Major Crimes: Gang rape, kidnapping reported	Neelum* was attacked by Sher Alam, Rashid and an unidentified. The attackers sexually assaulted her.
6	Gang rape case: One girl was raped, the other was ‘only’ harassed, say police	The rape of two schoolgirls in Islamabad took place at the hands of one boy, the main accused, while the others waited outside the room.
7	Refusal To Prostitute: Woman ‘escapes rape attempt by brothers-in-law’	Kausar Bibi* said her mother-in-law and brothers-in-law had been pressing her to take up sex work since her husband left for work in Karachi. Her brothers-in-law tried to sexually assault her ‘for being disobedient’.
8	Gang rape allegations: Five accused of sexual assault, kidnap	Saleema Bibi* had accused an Ahmedpur resident and his four accomplices of kidnapping her daughter Saima* and detaining and sexually assaulting her for 13 days.
9	Heinous crime: 10 yr old girl raped, tortured to death	A 10-year-old girl, Kaniza Rukia, was found critically injured, and later succumbed to her wounds. Her doctor said her body bore numerous torture marks, and she might have been sexually assaulted.
10	‘Family feud’: Girl, 15, raped by relative	A relative, along with some other people, came to Faryal's* house when she was alone. They gave her a pack of juice and she fainted after drinking it. She was tied up and raped for two weeks.
11	Sexual assault: Medical examination confirms rape	A 15-year-old girl had been sexually assaulted allegedly by a relative and his two accomplices.
12	Rape: Doctor arrested after bail dismissed	Dr Imtiaz Ahmed raped the dispenser at his clinic in Nawankot.
13	Woman stripped, paraded: Police take notice after road-block	Shazia* was stripped and paraded through the streets by one suspect and his accomplices over resistance to landlord Ghulam Ahmed’s* bid to rape her.
14	No arrests: Woman raped, burnt with cigarettes	Naveed* along with a friend, entered Mavra's* house, gagged her and tied her. She repeatedly burnt her with cigarette butts and raped and beat her.
15	Karak Rape Case: Court orders lie detector tests for victim, accused	DNA tests failed to ascertain the parentage of Uzma Ayub’s baby girl.
16	Treating a headache: Woman raped by ‘healer’	Hameeda Bibi,* resident of Mohallah Ghafoorabad, was raped at Peer Bawa Hayat Shah’s abode. Shah had locked the room and first chanted some stuff to ‘cure the headache’ but then harassed her with a gun and he and one Mudassir had raped her.
17	PHC grants bail to accused killers of Uzma Ayub’s brother	Rape victim Uzma Ayub's brother Alamzeb Khattak was shot dead on December 9, 2011, while escorting Uzma for a hearing for her rape case at Karak courts.
18	Dismissed: Three accused of rape released	Two rape victims said an arrested man and two women were not to be blamed for the rape and a misunderstanding had resulted in registration of the case.
19	Busted: Teenager arrested for rape	Irfan Dayo, 16, sexually assaulted four-year-old Shazia in Nazar Mohalla. Shazia was while she was playing outside her house.
20	Cases settled: Three released from rape and murder cases	Allah Rakhi said her daughter had gone to Arshad’s shop to buy some goods on October 12, 2011, but did not return. She went looking for her daughter and some children told her that she was being held in the shop where she was allegedly raped.
21	Child abuse: Boy assaulted by neighbor	Mohammad Hussain said that his eight-year-old son was abducted by a neighbour and raped at gunpoint.
22	Uzma Ayub case: Family to move apex court in murder case	Peshawar High Court’s (PHC) had passed verdict to bail out four men who were accused of murdering Uzma’s brother Alamzeb Khattak.
	March 2012
1	Acquaintance rape: Probe initiated into kidnap-assault-detention charges	Shazia Bibi* said she had escaped the house where Arshad and his two accomplices detained her. She said she had been allegedly sexually assaulted and tortured for three days.
2	Search Operation: Police on the hunt for alleged rapist	Five men tried to rape Naheed Channa, 35, but when they couldn’t they attacked her with a knife.
3	When will justice be served?	So far, the police have not been able to catch a single culprit, or even ascertain if the rape-murders were carried out by the same perpetrators.
4	Rape survivor tells incensed court police favouring accused for law minister ties	Rape survivor S* informed the court that police had detained Mushtaq, the sole witness of the rape, and tortured him for three days.
5	Sexual assault: Child raped ‘by neighbour’	A 10-year-old deaf-and-dumb girl was alone at her home when her neighbour broke in and sexually assaulted her.
6	Eve of Women’s Day: Policeman, aide rape 14-year-old girl	A 14-year-old girl was raped at gunpoint by a police constable and another man, while her grandparents were tied and gagged in another room of their house.
7	Karak rape case: Six accused approach court seeking bail	Thirteen men had allegedly abducted Uzma Ayub and kept her in detention for 13 months.
8	Attempted rape: Six-year-old girl found unconscious	A 12-year-old boy, Ameer Mallah, allegedly tried to rape his six-year-old cousin.
9	Supreme Court: Faisalabad CPO reprimanded for failing to arrest suspect	Saima Mukhtar* said Asghar Ali called her to his office for a job interview but he and four other people had raped her.
10	Uzma Ayub case: Witness in rape case to undergo DNA test	Uzma Ayub's brother said DNA test of main eyewitness Jamal was a plot to trap him.
11	Gilgit Gang Rape: Three men remanded in police custody	Three men were accused of gang-raping two sisters who had reportedly run away from their home.
12	Minor girl sexually assaulted in Haripur
13	Injury and insult: Worker accused of rape over minimum wage demand	Shabana*, five, had gone to buy groceries from a store in the neighbourhood, where she was assaulted by the shopkeeper’s son.
14	Karak rape case: Six suspects test negative	Alleged rape victim Uzma Ayub had accused 13 people, including three police officials and an army official, of raping her after she was abducted and kept in custody for 13 months.
15	Supreme Court continues with police lament	The court was hearing three cases jointly – one a petition for the recovery of a maid abducted from Lahore, the second concerning a murder during an incident of illegal dispossession, and the third concerning the arrest of the alleged ring leader in a gang rape case who is said to be a friend of Law Minister Rana Sanaullah.
16	Sexual assault: Blind woman raped	35-year-old Khanim Bibi* was kidnapped on her way home in Ahmedpur village and raped allegedly by Muhammad Ameer.
17	Bartering women: Apex court declares ‘jirgas’ unconstitutional	The apex court expressed concern over lack of convictions in cases of acid crimes and a recent rape incident in Shiekhupura.
18	Rule of law: 3 policemen arrested for biased investigation	The victim had told the court that despite several requests the police did not registered an FIR.
19	Heinous Crime: 4 arrested for raping disabled woman	A 22-year-old physically disabled woman said she was kidnapped from her house by four men who took her to a vacant house. She was raped by Sarfaraz, while his accomplices Latif Gujjar, Aslam Rath and Riaz Arain watched the house.
20	Woman climbs pole to protest alleged rape	22-year-old Neha claimed she was raped by spiritual healer Ashraf on January 15. She had gone to the peer after having an argument with her husband.
21	Rape case: SC displeased with police report in Sonia Naz case	The CJ was astonished that former Superintendent of Police (SP) Faisalabad Ahmed Raza Tahir, against whom substantial evidence was provided, was posted as Regional Police Officer (RPO) Lahore.
	February 2012
1	Smooth ascend: On average, three children assaulted every day	A report by NGO Sahil said a total of 4,846 attackers abused 2,303 children in 2011. The total number of sexual abuse cases in 2011, stood at a staggering 2,303.
2	Assault, homicide: Neighbour arrested for child’s rape, murder	A 12-year-old boy sexually assaulted and killed. In another incident, mutilated body of a woman found in a field who was apparently sexually assaulted and murdered.
3	Vulnerable: Rape and harassment lead to attempted suicides	A 25-year-old woman was alone at home, when two men from the same locality broke into the house and raped her. When news of her rape spread and people taunted her, she consumed poison.
4	Gang rape victim: Strengthening resolve to seek justice in Karak	Rape victim Uzma Ayub vowed to fight for justice till she breathes her last.
5	Karak rape case: Uzma Ayub’s new-born baby girl hospitalised	Rape victim Uzma Ayub gave birth to a baby girl Zeba on January 20 who became a key evidence in the rape case.
6	Karak rape case: Victim’s last hope hangs by a thread	Uzma Ayub's baby, a key evidence in the rape case, was hospitalised in a critical condition.
7	Karak Rape Case: Journalists offer their side of the story	Uzma Ayub's daughter Zeba went missing from the hospital soon after she was born, but was later found.
8	Alarming figures: 12 women killed, two raped in Hazara division this year	Two married women were gang-raped in Haripur, while two women, including a teenage girl, attempted suicide.
9	Gang rape: Six men sentenced to death in seven-year-old case	Suspects kidnapped Razia* and sexually assaulted for to avenge the alleged kidnapping of a suspect's daughter by a friend of Razia's father.
10	Child kidnapped, badly hurt in rape attempt	A five-year-old child was hospitalised with a severe head injury and several cuts he suffered in an assault allegedly by two men who were attempting to rape him.
11	Abuse of power: Teenaged school girl accuses a police official of rape	The sub-inspector of the Rescue 15 police has been accused of assaulting a 15-year-old schoolgirl after harassing and blackmailing her.
12	Nick of time: Man held for attempting to rape 11-year-old girl	An 11-year-old girl’s shrieking and crying for help saved her from attempted rape at the hands of a family acquaintance, a 22-year-old single man living in the same street as her.
13	Karak rape case: PHC dissatisfied with judicial inquiry	The Peshawar High Court (PHC) expressed dissatisfaction with the inquiry report on how Uzma Ayub’s baby was handed over to an NGO.
14	Sexual slavery: ‘Cancel bail of rape, abduction perpetrators’	A woman moved a bail-cancellation plea for five people who she says kidnapped her, raped her repeatedly for two years, broke her knees and rendered her unable to walk.
15	Journalistic ethics: How the media traumatises rape victims	Uzma Ayub has been hounded by journalists from her house to her hospital bed, narrating her experiences of abduction and gang-rape to reporters and millions of viewers across the globe – again and again.
16	‘Moro scandal’: Woman constable alleges DSP attempted to rape her	DSP Alan Khan Abbasi said Police head constable Hamida Bhan was "corrupt" and ran a brothel in the police station.
17	Karak rape case: DNA samples of six accused taken	Suspects who were named by Uzma Ayub, the rape victim, were brought to the Khyber Medical Centre where their blood samples were taken.
18	Karak Rape Case: Court rejects bail pleas of accused	The four persons were arrested when Zafran, Uzma’s other brother, registered a complaint with the police, accusing the officials and Ibrahim Shah, the ASI’s brother, of killing Alamzeb on court premises.
19	Raped and murdered: Body of five-year-old found in empty plot	The girl, ‘S’, was kidnapped outside her house in Muslimabad when she went to buy candy from a nearby store.
20	Child sexual abuse: For some children, home is the most dangerous place	Victims, age no bound, are left physically, psychologically and socially scarred. They suffer from deep depression, anxiety, and often lose their trust and confidence in everyone.
21	Sexual assault: Rapist sentenced to five years	Muhammad Khurram visited the house when the homeowner was away and added sedatives to their milk. He then raped the 16-year-old daughter after the family lost consciousness.
	January 2012
1	Heinous crime: Man arrested for kidnapping child, assault	Two man sexually assaulted an 11-year-old child after kidnapping her from near her house.
2	Fighting intimidation: Raped and robbed, victim appeals for justice	Nazia*, 25, was asleep with her two minor children when two persons entered her room after scaling the boundary wall. They held her at gunpoint, looted Rs1,80,000 cash and raped her.
3	Two girls abducted, gang raped	Saima*, 18, was gang raped after being abducted at gun point. Four people kidnapped Farah* when she was carrying cattle feed from her house.
4	Karak rape case: Victim gives birth to baby girl	An inquiry committee was formed to investigate the rape case after victim Uzma Ayub said she was pregnant.
5	Karak rape case: Stolen baby reunited with mother	Uzma Ayub accused NGO of taking her baby away without her permission, shortly after she was born at Hayatabad Medical Complex
6	Karak rape case: Accused sent on five-day judicial remand	Nasibullah, who was serving in Air Defence in the Pakistan Army, had escaped from the area after the FIR nominated him.
7	Kidnapping & murder: 7-year-old abducted, ‘raped’, murdered by neighbours	Asiya, 7, was allegedly abducted by her neighbor Salman along with his accomplice Abid Husainand was killed due to non-payment of ransom.
8	Cover up?: Court orders registration of case against seven policemen	Rukhsana Bibi alleged that policemen entered her house and tried to rape her daughter, Samina*. When the girl resisted, the two sub-inspectors slit her throat.