Women allege they have been abused for four years. PHOTO: FILE
In the tribal area of Dera Ghazi Khan, two women have accused their father of raping them for the last four years.
Eighteen-year-old N* and 22-year-old S, claim that their father started sexually abusing them after their mother died four-and-a-half years ago.
The accused, A, is a resident of village Mauza Jaidi of union council Sakhi Sarwar, district Dera Ghazi Khan. He has four sons and eight daughters. S and N are the eldest daughters.
His wife and their ninth child died during the delivery.
On Sunday, after their father rejected a marriage proposal for S, the women approached the Border Military Police Commandant Muhammad Riaz and told him the entire tragedy. He filed an FIR No. 22/2013 in the Sakhi Sarwar Border Military Police Station under Section 376-A. The Border Military Police has arrested the accused father. He told The Express Tribune that the allegations were baseless.
N and S informed the officer of horrifying details of the four-year-long abuse.
They had approached the Border Military Police because they did not trust the district police, the women said, adding that they feared for their four younger sisters who had not been raped so far. All marriage proposals had been rejected by their father on the pretext of their education, they told the officer. “Nobody in our home is studying simply because our father cannot afford it.”
The Border Military Police has sent the girls to a maternity home for a medical examination. *The names have not been revealed to protect their identities
Published in The Express Tribune, August 29th, 2013.
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Shameless father!! why doesn't he take second wife, as well as third & fourth. All at the same time. And he belong to the area notorious for Punjabi Taliban. Where are all of them? Must be busy beheading some innocent shia!
@Mishrab: if fathers DNA is found in vitim's birth canal. will you still doubt that?
@Mishrab DNA test is done in cases of rape to find evidence (semen residue, etc.) of the accused. Once and if it is found (that is, if the rape accusations are true), then it is very easy to find out who has committed the crime. Every person has his own DNA.
@Mishrab:::Very good question.This entire,may be 'so called', according to you,progress in medical science,is a hoax
@Gingo Can you tell me how DNA test help in identifying the rape ?
This is awful news if it is true. I shudder to think that it is. What kind of animals are these people who would do this to their own children?
In the report, there is mentioned that the father has 4 sons and 8 daughters. And that the wife died along with the 9th child during pregnancy. Am I getting this wrong, or the total children are 8?
Taliban allow this?
DNA test will establish who the culprit is in matter of days what Sharia will take forever.
All those who were against using DNA testing to prove rape by stating the example that a wife can blame her husband after consensual intercourse, now here is a case of an incest.