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Blasphemy charges: Out of fear, Ahmadi family on the run​

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Published: December 15, 2011​

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LAHORE: Blasphemy allegations continue to haunt minorities in Pakistan.
Aalmi Majlis Tahafuz Khatm-e-Nabuwat (AMTKN) activists alleged that 16-year-old Sajeel committed blasphemy by making derogatory remarks against the Holy Prophet (PBUH) and his father, Rana Hakim Jameel, had done the same by portraying Sajeel as a Muslim in his school admission form.
Denying that he ever put down Islam as Sajeel’s religion and all other allegations levelled against his son, Jameel’s was a different tale.
According to him, the allegations stemmed from a school fight.
The school principal overheard some students abusing Sajeel and beat them up. The students later accused Sajeel of telling on them and beat him up. When Sajeel actually went to the principal to complain, he learnt that the students had “made up a story, telling the principal they had attacked him because he had made blasphemous remarks”.
Later, Haji Aslam, the school principal, expelled Sajeel.
Fearing their safety, the two have been on the run ever since the charges emerged.
While the police have yet to register an FIR against the accused, they have already started conducting raids for their arrests.
A member of the accused family, Rana Asfandyar, 18, was arrested by the police, who allegedly pressurised the young student to reveal his brother’s whereabouts, Asfandyar’s older brother, Rana Mujahid told The Express Tribune.
At local mosques, various religious scholars were fuelling a hate campaign against Ahmadis, Mujahid alleged, adding that evoking such hatred among the public could prove dire for his family.
However, Khushab police station SHO Raja Arshad told The Express Tribunethat since the family refused to tell them about Sajeel’s whereabouts, the police had brought Asfandyar in to record his statement at the DPO’s office. Arshad denied that they had detained the boy.
Mujahid alleged that religious scholars Qari Saeed and Waqas Ahmed were producing “false witnesses” before the police.
SHO Arshad said that they were still in the process of recording the statements of witnesses, and hence, were unable to conclude their investigations.
Meanwhile, Jameel alleged that a property dispute could also be a reason behind the accusations.
Published in The Express Tribune, December 15th, 2011.

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[h=1]Sheila Dikshit admits Delhi is gang-rape capital, says 'no courage to meet the gangrape victim, I am ashamed'[/h][h=2]Delhi CM says the rape of a 23-year-old woman by six men five days ago "has touched the pinnacle of cruelty and insensitivity both by police and society". Also read: Have they been caught? Delhi gangrape victim asks about perpetrators[/h]
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Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit on Friday admitted that she did not have the courage to meet the victim of a brutal gangrapein hospital and also that she is unhappy with Delhi being labelled as India's rape capital.

Dikshit, India's longest-serving woman chief minister, also said that her "hands are tied" regarding law and order as it does not fall under the Delhi government.

Admitting that Delhi is certainly unsafe for women, the chief minister said that she was even ashamed to meet the victim at the hospital.

Delhi has reported over 600 cases of rape this year, according to police.

Dikshit said the rape of a 23-year-old woman by six men five days ago "has touched the pinnacle of cruelty and insensitivity both by police and society". Her comments come as widespread protests have broken out in the capital and in other places over the gangrape.

"I frankly did not have the courage to see her, I only met her parents and doctors. It would not have been right to break down in front of her parents. The incident has touched the pinnacle of cruelty and insensitivity both by police and society," Dikshit told a news channel.

"This case is the most painful thing I have seen happening as chief minister or a citizen."

On Delhi being labelled as "rape capital", the chief minister said: "I do not like my city being described as rape capital but it is out in the open that it has become one. I have a daughter and daughter-in-law. I am concerned about all girls in the city."

On her government's role with regard to the law and order situation, she said: "I do feel my hands are tied because law and order is not under me (Delhi government). Unfortunately I do not have the police under me...if police were under me I would have suspended a few policemen. The buck stops with the police commissioner and (Delhi's) Lt. Governor. I have not had a word with the Lt.Governor (Tejendra Khanna) yet , he is not here," she said.

Dikshit also said her government is striving to make Delhi a safer place for women,

"We need to strive towards a situation where girls do not need to be escorted. Where people think of a girl, irrespective of her attire, as sacrosanct. I will not make false promises but I am striving to make it better," Dikshit said.

Dikshit said her government has decided to bring out a draft bill, which would act as a deterrent to crime.

"We called NGOs and police a few days back and decided to make a draft bill, a bill which acts as a deterrent. Once it is made we will send it to the Centre," she said.

Hundreds of people have rallied in protest in the capital in the five days since the incident.

On Friday, protesters converged outside the Rashtrapati Bhavan, the president's official residence, demanding action against the rapists. On earlier days, protesters had shouted slogans outside the residence of Dikshit, the police headquarters, Jantar Mantar and India Gate.

The victim, a physiotherapist intern at a private hospital, is still critical. Her intestines had to be removed due to the brutality of the torture she was subjected to by the rapists.

The rape and torture occurred Sunday night, when the woman and her male friend boarded a private bus in south Delhi after watching a movie. She was brutally assaulted by six men while her male friend, who tried to save her, was also beaten up by the rapists.

Both victims were stripped and dumped by the roadside near the domestic airport, after the nearly 40-minute ordeal in a moving bus.

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The basic premise on which we won ourselves Pakistan was that a permanent majority cannot and should not dominate a permanent minority on account of numeric strength. Yet contrary to that founding logic, Pakistan is today legally a totalitarian fundamentalist theocracy​

A fresh round of hate has been unleashed against the hapless Ahmediyya community once again. A young woman has been expelled from her university for daring to stand up to hate speech against her community on campus in Lahore. In Rawalpindi, ignorant and boorish mobs have been agitating to close down an Ahmedi ‘place of worship’ for being ‘unconstitutional’. In other words, practising their own faith in their own space is deemed unconstitutional by a mob that has probably never opened the constitution. All the while this community goes on praying and fasting for Pakistan, where a majority continues to persecute them for believing differently.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, the great American Judge, wrote in his dissenting opinion in Abrams vs United States 250 US 616 (1919): “When men have realised that time has upset many fighting faiths, they may come to believe even more than they believe the very foundations of their own conduct that the ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas — that the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market.” If the Ahmedi beliefs are so patently false and ridiculous as our ulema (Islamic scholars) say they are, then why be so insecure as to shut them down completely? Why not allow them to be ridiculed in the marketplace of ideas?
Every citizen of Pakistan has the unfettered right to practice and propagate his or her religion and every religious denomination and sect thereof has the right to establish its places of worship and educational institutions according to Article 20 of the constitution of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, 1973. These rights are paramount. Unlike other articles, this Article — the cornerstone of religious liberty in our country — is not restricted by reasonable restrictions but is subject to law, order and morality alone. This means that religious freedom and freedom of conscience cannot be restricted. Ahmedis might be non-Muslims for the purposes of law and constitution under Article 260 but that does not mean that they are not Pakistanis. Unfortunately, time and again the judiciary in Pakistan — whose basic function is to safeguard marginalised sections of our society — has upheld retrogressive laws that target the Ahmedis.
To begin with, let us put a popular notion to rest that if an Ahmedi calls himself a Muslim, he is violating the constitution. The most one can stretch Article 260, which is a definition clause, is to say that the state of Pakistan does not agree with an Ahmedi if he calls himself a Muslim and that laws and provisions specific to the Muslims will not apply to the Ahmedis. When Article 260 is read with Article 19 (freedom of speech and expression) and Article 20 (freedom of religion), it becomes clear that there is no constitutional bar against an Ahmedi citizen calling himself a Muslim, even if the Pakistani constitution and law does not agree with him. In these circumstances Ordinance XX of 1984 is a clear violation of the fundamental rights of an entire community to any sane and reasonable mind. However, two judges on a three member bench of the Supreme Court of Pakistan in Zaheeruddin vs the State 1993 SCMR 1718 did not think so. They felt — incredibly enough — that Ahmedis purporting to or even thinking themselves to be Muslims is a violation akin to violation of intellectual property rights. One of these judges went so far as to declare that it was reasonable for a Muslim to be outraged and therefore attack the Ahmedis on this ground. This is our Supreme Court for God’s sake. Check your religious biases on the door, Lordships. You cannot be partisan judges serving communitarian interests of the majority. You are justices of the superior judiciary of Pakistan, tasked with safeguarding fundamental rights of every citizen of Pakistan, whatever his faith maybe. The clearest duty on part of the Pakistani Supreme Court is to stand up for every citizen of Pakistan, be it an Ahmedi, Shia, Christian or Hindu. If you cannot be unbiased or if you cannot stand up or are too afraid to stand up for every citizen of Pakistan, then I implore you to resign and let men made of sterner stuff replace you.
Last but not the least, the history of Ahmedi persecution is as sordid as it is surreal. The anti-Pakistan Majlis-e-Ahrar-ul-Islam, which had opposed the Muslim League in the 1940s, enflamed passions on the Ahmedi issue to hit back at the Muslim League, which had many prominent Ahmedis in it. One particular Ahmedi target for this party was Chaudhry Zafarullah Khan who was Pakistan’s first foreign minister and in the words of Quaid-e-Azam Mohammed Ali Jinnah, the most able Muslim in his team. Jinnah himself would have been horrified at the persecution of the Ahmedis. He had dismissed appeals by the mullahs in his lifetime. saying that anyone who professes to be a Muslim is a Muslim. It was this statement that won him the eternal animosity of the Majlis-e-Ahrar-ul-Islam and other religious outfits. These religious organisations are today claimants of the protectors of Nazaria-e-Pakistan (Ideology of Pakistan).
The basic premise on which we won ourselves Pakistan was that a permanent majority cannot and should not dominate a permanent minority on account of numeric strength. Yet contrary to that founding logic, Pakistan is today legally a totalitarian fundamentalist theocracy. It will lead us to a dead end from which there will be no way out. It is time the Muslims of Pakistan halted and thought about where they intend to take this much abused, much maligned and much misunderstood Islamic Republic.
The writer is a lawyer based in Lahore. He is also a regular contributor to the Indian law website http://mylaw.net and blogs on http//globallegalforum.blogspot.com and http://pakteahouse.net. He can be reached at [email protected][/TD]
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SUNDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2010

Sodomy: Pakistan’s national hobby



Sodomy has been Pakistan’s national hobby. It’s rampant in this Islamic Republic of Pakistan. It’s being practised in madrassas.
Many of my friends, who are madrassa graduate, narrate the gruesome details of the sodomy episode repeated regularly in madrassas. Most of the time young boys are subjected to sexual abuse by their madrassa teachers.
Three boys have been accused of committing sodomy with a 15-year-old boy in a hostel associated with Islamabad Institute of Medical Sciencce, according to the media reports.Two weeks ago, an NGO report revealed that 1,216 children had been sexually abused in the first half of this year as compared to 968 recorded cases in the corresponding period last year.
This is the first reported case in which a gang, whose members are age fellows of the victim, has committed sodomy. Many such cases go un-reported due to shame and other social stigmas associated with sodomy.
My dad did a murder trial in which the father (accused) of a boy (aged 12) killed a person in the village. My dad represented the accused. The accused’s son went in to the fields to defecate. When the boy was sitting on the ground after removing his shalwar (trouser), the deceased came at the spot and trid to commit sodomy. The boy was lucky. He fled from the scene, leaving his shalwar there and coming all the way to his home. He narrated the whole incidnet to his father. His father took out his handgun and murdered the person who tried to sodomise his son. The father was given death sentence by the trial court, however the high court converted his death sentencce into life sentence recently. Sitting in the court room, while my dad was arguing the case before Lahore High Court Chief Justice Khawaja Muhammad Sharif, I was thinking about the boy’s father in the jail and the boy in the village.
The father has given his son social protection and courage to roam in the village streets without a honour. I am sure the sodomy in that village must have stopped after that incident. But few are courageous enough to make the issue public. Many vicitms and their families sulk for the rest of their lives.
I am also aware of some cases wherein the act of sodomy was filmed for future blackmailing. The video clip would be circulated in surrounding villages within the couple of hours of the sodomy. The victim in one such case brought the case in the court. The accused were punished for life. The victim went to England afterwards.
Laws in Pakistan are very strict about sodomy, but they are unable to give confidence to victims or their families to approach courts.
In the area adjoining Jhelum cantonment. A young boy was sodomised by two people who were in their mid-twenties. They took the boy from his house on the pretext of playing cricket with him and sodomised him in a deserted walled-property. The boy’s father came to our chamber and narrated the whole episode to me and my father. He was poor and we offered him our services for free. He was very nervous and would visit us daily. Despite all our assurances, he was reluctanct to go to the court.
He opted for an out-of-court-settlement with the accused. He told us that his own family elders were pressing him to give up the case. He let the accused go scot-free without even claiming come monetary compensation. I gave him the toll-free number of a non-government organisation who helps rehabiliatate sodomy victims, but I am sure he would not have called it.
The irony is that the poor boy is still living in the same area where the culprits with grins on their faces cross him daily in the streets.

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[h=1]Is India the Rape Capital of the World?[/h][h=1]We're horrified by news reports of rape in India and feel lucky we don't live there. But the country with the highest rate of sexual assault isn't India—it's us
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Trent Mays, 17 (left), and Ma'lik Richmond, 16 (center), were found guilty of raping a 16-year-old girl

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Americans are reading with horror as sexual assault after sexual assault unfolds in India. It’s easy to wonder, “What’s wrong with that country?” But we should be asking what’s wrong with the United States, too.
Rape and violence against women are a massive problem in India. According to the country's National Crime Record Bureau, crimes against women have increased by 7.1 percent since 2010. The number of rapes reported has also risen. Nearly one in three rape victims in India is under the age of 18. One in 10 are under 14. Every 20 minutes in India, a woman is raped.
And yet India only ranks third for the number of rapes reported each year. What country ranks first? The United States. In India, a country of over 1.2 billion people, 24,206 rapes were reported in 2011. The same year in the United States, a nation of 300 million, 83,425 rapes were reported. In the United States, every 6.2 minutes a woman is raped.
Even if sexual assault in India is dramatically underreported, which most likely it is, the statistical difference is still striking—as is our uniquely American inclination to dismiss such monstrous human rights violations as problems that other countries face. Not only is violence against women a global pandemic but the United States may be leading the pack.
Oh, but you think, women who've been sexually assaulted in America are better treated. Rape victims in India, especially in rural villages, are often subject to shaming and considered unfit for marriage. But meanwhile, in Steubenville, Ohio, two young men who were convicted of raping a 16-year-old girl too intoxicated to consent continue to be defended as upstanding football players while the reputation of the young woman is smeared. When the verdict was announced, a CNN reporter came close to portraying the rapists as passive victims: “These two young men that had such promising futures, star football players, very good students, literally watched as they believed their lives fell apart.” Other media coverage seemed equally sympathetic to the perpetrators.
Meanwhile, the victim was blamed. Early on, one of the 19 coaches of the Steubenville High football team said the victim was just making up the rape. The victim and her family had to get police protection due to the level of threats against them. Two weeks ago, a prominent local activitist in Steubenville spoke about the “alleged victim” (even though the allegations had turned into a conviction) and suggested, according to a reporter, that the victim “might have been a willing participant”. Meanwhile, the woman who broke the story of the rape—she is a local blogger—has been harassed and threatened.
Isolated incident of smearing and shaming the victim? Afraid not. Just weeks after the Steubenville story broke, two high school football players in Torrington, Connecticut were accused of raping a 13-year-old girl. The response? Dozens of people from the town took to social media to berate and blame the 13-year-old accuser.

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Aalmi Majlis Tahafuz Khatm-e-Nabuwat (AMTKN) activists alleged that 16-year-old Sajeel committed blasphemy by making derogatory remarks against the Holy Prophet (PBUH) and his father, Rana Hakim Jameel, had done the same by portraying Sajeel as a Muslim in his school admission form.
Denying that he ever put down Islam as Sajeel’s religion and all other allegations levelled against his son, Jameel’s was a different tale.
According to him, the allegations stemmed from a school fight.
The school principal overheard some students abusing Sajeel and beat them up. The students later accused Sajeel of telling on them and beat him up. When Sajeel actually went to the principal to complain, he learnt that the students had “made up a story, telling the principal they had attacked him because he had made blasphemous remarks”.
Later, Haji Aslam, the school principal, expelled Sajeel.
Fearing their safety, the two have been on the run ever since the charges emerged.
While the police have yet to register an FIR against the accused, they have already started conducting raids for their arrests.
A member of the accused family, Rana Asfandyar, 18, was arrested by the police, who allegedly pressurised the young student to reveal his brother’s whereabouts, Asfandyar’s older brother, Rana Mujahid told The Express Tribune.
At local mosques, various religious scholars were fuelling a hate campaign against Ahmadis, Mujahid alleged, adding that evoking such hatred among the public could prove dire for his family.
However, Khushab police station SHO Raja Arshad told The Express Tribunethat since the family refused to tell them about Sajeel’s whereabouts, the police had brought Asfandyar in to record his statement at the DPO’s office. Arshad denied that they had detained the boy.
Mujahid alleged that religious scholars Qari Saeed and Waqas Ahmed were producing “false witnesses” before the police.
SHO Arshad said that they were still in the process of recording the statements of witnesses, and hence, were unable to conclude their investigations.
Meanwhile, Jameel alleged that a property dispute could also be a reason behind the accusations.
Published in The Express Tribune, December 15th, 2011.
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[h=1]Delhi is now India’s rape capital, show NCRB data[/h]

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For the first time in history, Delhi is officially the “rape capital” of India. Even while the pace of increase in the number of reported rapes in the city has slowed down, the number of such cases proportionate to its women population was higher than for any other city or State last year.
During the past years, Delhi reported a larger actual number of reported rapes than other cities, but cities in Madhya Pradesh, including Gwalior and Jabalpur, reported higher numbers of rapes proportionate to their populations. This year, Delhi is higher in both absolute and proportionate terms, show data from the National Crime Records Bureau released on Tuesday. The NCRB collates data from all first information reports filed in police stations across the country.
The city reported 1,813 rapes in 2014, up from 1,441 in 2013. While Delhi continues to lead other big cities in the number of reported rapes, the increase in reported cases has tapered after a sharp spike in 2013. In Mumbai, in contrast, while the number of reported rapes was comparatively lower, there was a sharp spike between 2013 and 2014, from 391 to 607 cases. Nearly all of India’s custodial rape — 189 of 197 cases — was reported in Uttar Pradesh, which along with Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh recorded the highest numbers of alleged gang rapes.

For the country as a whole, as the number of reported crimes against women increased to over 3.3 lakh, or 56 incidents per lakh women, the rate of increase has tapered off. There was a sharp rise in reported crimes against women between 2012 and 2013, as a result of increased awareness following the December 2012 gang-rape, but the increase was sharply lower between 2013 and 2014, the police say.
While the share of reported rape cases in which the offender was known to the victim remained significantly high at 86 per cent, it was substantially lower than in past years, when the proportion was 94 per cent or higher.
There was a sharp rise in reported crimes against women between 2012 and 2013, as a result of increased awareness following the December 2012 gang-rape, but the increase was sharply lower between 2013 and 2014, the police say.
While the share of reported rape cases in which the offender was known to the victim remained significantly high at 86 per cent, it was substantially lower than in past years, when the proportion was 94 per cent or higher.
The new data all but establish Delhi as the country’s crime capital; the rate of cognisable crime under Indian Penal Code charges, which grew by only a few percentage points for the country as a whole, nearly doubled for Delhi, to 856 per lakh population.
This places the city next only to Indore in terms of cognisable crime proportionate to its population, but Indore’s crime rate grew only marginally between the two years.

Contributing to the spike in Delhi was a sharp increase in cases of robbery, burglary and theft, especially auto theft. The capital now accounts for over a fifth of all crime in all big cities.
Nationally, the country recorded nearly 34,000 murders. The country recorded 66,000 incidents of riots, but the majority was classified as not sectarian, political or caste-based but as “others”.
Keywords: National Crime Records Bureau, NCRB data, Delhi rape cases, crime against women

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ANALYSIS: Persecution of Ahmedis in the Islamic Republic — Yasser Latif Hamdani​

The basic premise on which we won ourselves Pakistan was that a permanent majority cannot and should not dominate a permanent minority on account of numeric strength. Yet contrary to that founding logic, Pakistan is today legally a totalitarian fundamentalist theocracy
A fresh round of hate has been unleashed against the hapless Ahmediyya community once again. A young woman has been expelled from her university for daring to stand up to hate speech against her community on campus in Lahore. In Rawalpindi, ignorant and boorish mobs have been agitating to close down an Ahmedi ‘place of worship’ for being ‘unconstitutional’. In other words, practising their own faith in their own space is deemed unconstitutional by a mob that has probably never opened the constitution. All the while this community goes on praying and fasting for Pakistan, where a majority continues to persecute them for believing differently.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, the great American Judge, wrote in his dissenting opinion in Abrams vs United States 250 US 616 (1919): “When men have realised that time has upset many fighting faiths, they may come to believe even more than they believe the very foundations of their own conduct that the ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas — that the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market.” If the Ahmedi beliefs are so patently false and ridiculous as our ulema (Islamic scholars) say they are, then why be so insecure as to shut them down completely? Why not allow them to be ridiculed in the marketplace of ideas?
Every citizen of Pakistan has the unfettered right to practice and propagate his or her religion and every religious denomination and sect thereof has the right to establish its places of worship and educational institutions according to Article 20 of the constitution of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, 1973. These rights are paramount. Unlike other articles, this Article — the cornerstone of religious liberty in our country — is not restricted by reasonable restrictions but is subject to law, order and morality alone. This means that religious freedom and freedom of conscience cannot be restricted. Ahmedis might be non-Muslims for the purposes of law and constitution under Article 260 but that does not mean that they are not Pakistanis. Unfortunately, time and again the judiciary in Pakistan — whose basic function is to safeguard marginalised sections of our society — has upheld retrogressive laws that target the Ahmedis.
To begin with, let us put a popular notion to rest that if an Ahmedi calls himself a Muslim, he is violating the constitution. The most one can stretch Article 260, which is a definition clause, is to say that the state of Pakistan does not agree with an Ahmedi if he calls himself a Muslim and that laws and provisions specific to the Muslims will not apply to the Ahmedis. When Article 260 is read with Article 19 (freedom of speech and expression) and Article 20 (freedom of religion), it becomes clear that there is no constitutional bar against an Ahmedi citizen calling himself a Muslim, even if the Pakistani constitution and law does not agree with him. In these circumstances Ordinance XX of 1984 is a clear violation of the fundamental rights of an entire community to any sane and reasonable mind. However, two judges on a three member bench of the Supreme Court of Pakistan in Zaheeruddin vs the State 1993 SCMR 1718 did not think so. They felt — incredibly enough — that Ahmedis purporting to or even thinking themselves to be Muslims is a violation akin to violation of intellectual property rights. One of these judges went so far as to declare that it was reasonable for a Muslim to be outraged and therefore attack the Ahmedis on this ground. This is our Supreme Court for God’s sake. Check your religious biases on the door, Lordships. You cannot be partisan judges serving communitarian interests of the majority. You are justices of the superior judiciary of Pakistan, tasked with safeguarding fundamental rights of every citizen of Pakistan, whatever his faith maybe. The clearest duty on part of the Pakistani Supreme Court is to stand up for every citizen of Pakistan, be it an Ahmedi, Shia, Christian or Hindu. If you cannot be unbiased or if you cannot stand up or are too afraid to stand up for every citizen of Pakistan, then I implore you to resign and let men made of sterner stuff replace you.
Last but not the least, the history of Ahmedi persecution is as sordid as it is surreal. The anti-Pakistan Majlis-e-Ahrar-ul-Islam, which had opposed the Muslim League in the 1940s, enflamed passions on the Ahmedi issue to hit back at the Muslim League, which had many prominent Ahmedis in it. One particular Ahmedi target for this party was Chaudhry Zafarullah Khan who was Pakistan’s first foreign minister and in the words of Quaid-e-Azam Mohammed Ali Jinnah, the most able Muslim in his team. Jinnah himself would have been horrified at the persecution of the Ahmedis. He had dismissed appeals by the mullahs in his lifetime. saying that anyone who professes to be a Muslim is a Muslim. It was this statement that won him the eternal animosity of the Majlis-e-Ahrar-ul-Islam and other religious outfits. These religious organisations are today claimants of the protectors of Nazaria-e-Pakistan (Ideology of Pakistan).
The basic premise on which we won ourselves Pakistan was that a permanent majority cannot and should not dominate a permanent minority on account of numeric strength. Yet contrary to that founding logic, Pakistan is today legally a totalitarian fundamentalist theocracy. It will lead us to a dead end from which there will be no way out. It is time the Muslims of Pakistan halted and thought about where they intend to take this much abused, much maligned and much misunderstood Islamic Republic.
The writer is a lawyer based in Lahore. He is also a regular contributor to the Indian law website http://mylaw.net and blogs on http//globallegalforum.blogspot.com and http://pakteahouse.net. He can be reached at [email protected][/TD]
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SUNDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2010



Sodomy has been Pakistan’s national hobby. It’s rampant in this Islamic Republic of Pakistan. It’s being practised in madrassas.
Many of my friends, who are madrassa graduate, narrate the gruesome details of the sodomy episode repeated regularly in madrassas. Most of the time young boys are subjected to sexual abuse by their madrassa teachers.
Three boys have been accused of committing sodomy with a 15-year-old boy in a hostel associated with Islamabad Institute of Medical Sciencce, according to the media reports.Two weeks ago, an NGO report revealed that 1,216 children had been sexually abused in the first half of this year as compared to 968 recorded cases in the corresponding period last year.
This is the first reported case in which a gang, whose members are age fellows of the victim, has committed sodomy. Many such cases go un-reported due to shame and other social stigmas associated with sodomy.
My dad did a murder trial in which the father (accused) of a boy (aged 12) killed a person in the village. My dad represented the accused. The accused’s son went in to the fields to defecate. When the boy was sitting on the ground after removing his shalwar (trouser), the deceased came at the spot and trid to commit sodomy. The boy was lucky. He fled from the scene, leaving his shalwar there and coming all the way to his home. He narrated the whole incidnet to his father. His father took out his handgun and murdered the person who tried to sodomise his son. The father was given death sentence by the trial court, however the high court converted his death sentencce into life sentence recently. Sitting in the court room, while my dad was arguing the case before Lahore High Court Chief Justice Khawaja Muhammad Sharif, I was thinking about the boy’s father in the jail and the boy in the village.
The father has given his son social protection and courage to roam in the village streets without a honour. I am sure the sodomy in that village must have stopped after that incident. But few are courageous enough to make the issue public. Many vicitms and their families sulk for the rest of their lives.
I am also aware of some cases wherein the act of sodomy was filmed for future blackmailing. The video clip would be circulated in surrounding villages within the couple of hours of the sodomy. The victim in one such case brought the case in the court. The accused were punished for life. The victim went to England afterwards.
Laws in Pakistan are very strict about sodomy, but they are unable to give confidence to victims or their families to approach courts.
In the area adjoining Jhelum cantonment. A young boy was sodomised by two people who were in their mid-twenties. They took the boy from his house on the pretext of playing cricket with him and sodomised him in a deserted walled-property. The boy’s father came to our chamber and narrated the whole episode to me and my father. He was poor and we offered him our services for free. He was very nervous and would visit us daily. Despite all our assurances, he was reluctanct to go to the court.
He opted for an out-of-court-settlement with the accused. He told us that his own family elders were pressing him to give up the case. He let the accused go scot-free without even claiming come monetary compensation. I gave him the toll-free number of a non-government organisation who helps rehabiliatate sodomy victims, but I am sure he would not have called it.
The irony is that the poor boy is still living in the same area where the culprits with grins on their faces cross him daily in the streets.

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The wave of protests, expressing outrage at the brutal gangrape of a 23-year-old paramedic student, continued in the city today with student groups taking centre stage.

A group of about 200 students from the JNU Students Union, along with the Jamia Millia Islamia Students Union and the All India Students Association, staged a candle light vigil outsideSafdarjung Hospital to show solidarity with the victim. Doctors proclaimed today that the girl was stable and fighting for her life, after undergoing intestinal surgery.

Camped on either side of the hospital's emergency gate, the AISA group shouted slogans while the students from JNU sat outside the hospital in silence, holding banners. The banners read, "Let us unite to give dignity, support and a place in our hearts and lives to all rape survivors". Others said, "Our thoughts and wishes are with you."

Rather than expressing anger at the authorities, which was the theme of yesterday's protests around the city, today's message was to encourage her to fight for her life and to ask the state to take all responsibility for her rehabiltation.

"Leaders like Sushma Swaraj have gone up in Parliament to say that even if she lives she will be zinda-laash or that will be dead inside. We don't see this. We are for dignity of all rape survivors and we believe rape is a social issue that the government has to address now. And they have to look after the rehabilitation of survivors and ensure that they can live a normal life," said Ruchira Sen from the SFI students party.

Many of the students outside the hospital were part of the group that had gone to India Gate yesterday. Taking the police by surprise, about 200 of them advanced toward North Block, demanding to see the Home Minister. "There were about 600 of us eventually and the Home Minister finally agreed to meet us. We gave him a charter of our demands," one of the students said.

The charter, prepared by the JNUSU, has 10 points and is backed by statistical data taken from the National Crime Records Bureau. According to a report from 2011, only 0.5 per cent of all complaints received were turned into FIRs, something the students said must be rectified immediately. Other points included ensuring more women in the Delhi police, improving the speed of investigation into such cases and introducing compulsory courses on gender sensitivity for the police force.

"When we met the Home Minister we were surprised that he had no idea about things like the conviction rate. He has asked us for some time to respond to our demands so we will wait and see what happens with that," another student said.

The JNUSU, along with AISA, will organise more protests tomorrow and may also join with a larger protest organised byArvind Kejriwal at Jantar Mantar at 4 pm.

Residents of the city have also commented that they have seen a change in the police force over the last two days as they are anx

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2010




Sodomy has been Pakistan’s national hobby. It’s rampant in this Islamic Republic of Pakistan. It’s being practised in madrassas.
Many of my friends, who are madrassa graduate, narrate the gruesome details of the sodomy episode repeated regularly in madrassas. Most of the time young boys are subjected to sexual abuse by their madrassa teachers.
Three boys have been accused of committing sodomy with a 15-year-old boy in a hostel associated with Islamabad Institute of Medical Sciencce, according to the media reports.Two weeks ago, an NGO report revealed that 1,216 children had been sexually abused in the first half of this year as compared to 968 recorded cases in the corresponding period last year.
This is the first reported case in which a gang, whose members are age fellows of the victim, has committed sodomy. Many such cases go un-reported due to shame and other social stigmas associated with sodomy.
My dad did a murder trial in which the father (accused) of a boy (aged 12) killed a person in the village. My dad represented the accused. The accused’s son went in to the fields to defecate. When the boy was sitting on the ground after removing his shalwar (trouser), the deceased came at the spot and trid to commit sodomy. The boy was lucky. He fled from the scene, leaving his shalwar there and coming all the way to his home. He narrated the whole incidnet to his father. His father took out his handgun and murdered the person who tried to sodomise his son. The father was given death sentence by the trial court, however the high court converted his death sentencce into life sentence recently. Sitting in the court room, while my dad was arguing the case before Lahore High Court Chief Justice Khawaja Muhammad Sharif, I was thinking about the boy’s father in the jail and the boy in the village.
The father has given his son social protection and courage to roam in the village streets without a honour. I am sure the sodomy in that village must have stopped after that incident. But few are courageous enough to make the issue public. Many vicitms and their families sulk for the rest of their lives.
I am also aware of some cases wherein the act of sodomy was filmed for future blackmailing. The video clip would be circulated in surrounding villages within the couple of hours of the sodomy. The victim in one such case brought the case in the court. The accused were punished for life. The victim went to England afterwards.
Laws in Pakistan are very strict about sodomy, but they are unable to give confidence to victims or their families to approach courts.
In the area adjoining Jhelum cantonment. A young boy was sodomised by two people who were in their mid-twenties. They took the boy from his house on the pretext of playing cricket with him and sodomised him in a deserted walled-property. The boy’s father came to our chamber and narrated the whole episode to me and my father. He was poor and we offered him our services for free. He was very nervous and would visit us daily. Despite all our assurances, he was reluctanct to go to the court.
He opted for an out-of-court-settlement with the accused. He told us that his own family elders were pressing him to give up the case. He let the accused go scot-free without even claiming come monetary compensation. I gave him the toll-free number of a non-government organisation who helps rehabiliatate sodomy victims, but I am sure he would not have called it.
The irony is that the poor boy is still living in the same area where the culprits with grins on their faces cross him daily in the streets.

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And children are raped in Madarassas!!!!

The Saints Of Dark Sins
An AIDS conference woke Pakistan to a stark, ugly reality: the rampant sodomy in madrassas
MARIANA BAABAR
Special Issue: 4. International

For decades, it has been a sight common to most Pakistani homes: the bearded maulana teaching children the holy Quran. But what has changed over the last few years is the presence of a family elder at these private tuitions, irrespective of the child's gender. The family elder, though it's tacit, is there to deter the maulana from preying upon children for sexual gratification. Indeed, the maulana's penchant to sodomise the male child, or molest girls, has been Pakistan's darkest, best-kept secret.

Until it was made public last month at a most unusual venue: a World AIDS Day conference in Islamabad.

Husain cited 500 cases of sexual abuse in 2004, 2,000 in 2003.


And the person who dared talk about it was the country's junior minister for religion, ushr and zakat, Dr Amir Liaquat Husain. The irrepressible minister, who conducts a weekly religious programme on a private TV channel, said Pakistan
must countenance the harsh truth about the madrassa's role in spreading AIDS. This was because, he offered to explain, maulanas are guilty of rampant sexual abuse of children.

There was an ironical backdrop to Husain's decision to blow the whistle. The Pakistan government has in recent times been trying to revamp the country's antediluvian madrassas, and also hoping they could, because of their tremendous clout, spread awareness about AIDS in society. Obviously, Husain assumed, the maulanas couldn't teach safe sex even as they abused their pupils. Lest his audience was unaware of how rampant the menace was in madrassas, the minister said, "During a raid on a madrassa in Karachi, I caught a cleric red-handed, abusing a student sexually.
An inquiry was ordered."

Since that conference on December 1, Husain's remarks have continued to generate controversy, gathering momentum every day with clerics,

The revelation comes when madrassas were being asked to help spread AIDS awareness.

the government and the minister's party, the MQM, joining issue. The initial response of the clerics was to run for cover and keep mum on the affair. But as the western media picked up the contentious thread, the maulanas rallied to hit back as only they could. They issued death threats to Husain.

Not one to be pummelled by the unholy passion of the maulanas, Husain began to reel out statistics to the media to bolster his case. There were 500 reported cases of sexual abuse involving the maulanas in 2004; it was as high as 2,000 in 2003; and, worse, there hasn't yet been a successful prosecution.

The fury of the fundamentalists prompted a nervous Shaukat Aziz government to ask the senior religious minister, Ijaz-ul-Haq, to mollify the clerics. In doing so, Ijaz was attempting to appease the constituency of fundamentalists whom his father, Zia-ul-Haq, had so assiduously cultivated. In the Senate, the conglomeration of religious parties, Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal, and even liberal parties like the Pakistan People's Party banded together to demand an apology from Husain. PPP spokesperson Farhatullah Babar told Outlook, "Actually, Husain made a sweeping statement and painted everyone black with his brush. He should have talked about specific examples."

The MQM found the heat difficult to bear. It asked Husain to apologise. Sans support from the political class and civil society, Husain relented: he apologised in the last week of December. Some thought President Pervez Musharraf, whose post-9/11 rhetoric has been anti-fundamentalist, should have publicly backed Husain's fight against the maulanas. Musharraf, however, remained silent, though it is said he told the junior minister in private that he shouldn't have apologised.

Some western websites perceived a political dimension in the controversy. As one of these noted, rather gravely, "Rape is practised to break the spirit of the child and make him obedient to the extent that he can carry out terrorist acts, including suicide bombing.

The minister should take the funds available from foreign sources and simply take the pre-teen children out of residential seminaries, (besides) replacing them with normal (read secular) schools."

Others saw a global trend in the incidents of sexual abuse in Pakistan's religious seminaries. There have been infamous cases of Catholic priests sexually exploiting children in the West; there's also the cases surrounding the Kanchi math in India currently. With the 'faithful' betraying the faith the child reposes in them, psychologist Dr Iffat Hussain points out, "Abuse on children has devastating effects on their lives later on. Sexual abuse not only destroys the child's personality but also turns such abused individuals into culprits later on."

The controversy received a fresh impetus this week as the National AIDS Control Programme held a workshop in Islamabad. Its goal: to convince religious leaders to encourage HIV/AIDS patients to use contraceptives instead of separating from their partners. They were also encouraged to talk about the HIV/AIDS kit in their Friday sermons. The moot question is: is the mullah suited for the job?

Pakistani NGO SPARC (Society for Protection of the Rights of the Child) in its 2003 report says that an amount of $225 million has been earmarked to modernise 8,000 madrassas over three years. The modernisation programme, it is hoped, could also help spread consciousness about AIDS. Yet, the same report says 14 per cent of all child-abusers in 2003 were clerics. SPARC activists cite three specific cases from 2004 to illustrate sexual abuse of children and their brutalisation in religious seminaries.

Case One
In June 2004, when five-year-old Talha did not return from the Lajna mosque in Lahore, where he had gone to take Quranic lessons from Maulvi Mohammad Altaf, his mother went to fetch him. She found the boy in the corridor of the mosque, bleeding and unconscious; the maulvi was missing from the mosque. An fir was duly lodged. Altaf was subsequently arrested and Tahla identified him as the person who had sodomised him.

The family was determined to pursue the case. But soon different religious groups began to mount pressure on them to drop the case; the family was even told that these "maulvis have links with Al Qaeda". Pressure was, apparently, also brought upon the police. The family ultimately relented in July, agreeing to not pursue their case and withdrawing their witnesses.

Case Two
Sanam, 9, daughter of Mohammad Saleh Kori, a resident of the Microwave Colony, Sukkur, Sind, was a student of Abdul Wahid Chachar's madrassa. On February 15, 2004, at the end of her classes, Maulvi Abdul Wahid told her that she was his wife and would have to live with him. Sanam rushed out to tell her parents about the incident. When her father went to the madrassa to complain, Abdul produced a nikahnama bearing Kori and his daughter's signatures.

The father-daughter had been tricked into appending their signature to the marriage document. Apparently, the maulana had asked them to sign on a form, claiming it would enable the family to receive zakat (charity money). The illiterate father, obviously, couldn't distinguish between a zakat form and a nikahnama. Worse, the local Chachar tribesmen began pressuring him to hand over Sanam to Abdul.

Case Three
Child abuse in seminaries often involves physical torture. As in the case of 11-year-old Atif. Brutally assaulted at a seminary in Faisalabad, he is currently undergoing treatment at the Children's Hospital in Lahore. On May 1, 2004, he was quoted saying, "I was punished by the teacher who wanted to make an example of me because I dared to escape from the daily routine of beatings at the seminary." Once nabbed, he was chained and detained in a room at the seminary; Maulvi Mahboob Alam then beat him severely with an iron rod. The hospital's treatment note says the boy was brought in with a head injury and bruises all over the body. Atif's case came to light following the intervention of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan.

It's one thing to take legal action against culprits or modernise madrassas. It's quite another to retreat against the fury of fundamentalists keen to insulate their arcane world from scrutiny and criticism. A pity Pakistanis let down Husain.

What is the problem with these people, my friends?!?!?!?!?! WHAT?!?!?!?!?!!!!???!!!

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ISLAMABAD, April 22 (Xinhua) -- Living behind the bars for last 15 years, Tanveer Abbas (alias), 30, has been spending every painful day with a question nagging in his mind, "What is his fault that makes him to face life imprisonment?"
Sitting at the floor of a prisoners' cell in the central jail in Pakistan's historical city of Multan, Abbas narrated how he was abducted and raped by five notorious men turn-by-turn for more than a week before throwing him comatose in the outskirts of the city.
He was 9th class student in a secondary school in Vehari district in southern part of the Punjab province when he faced that unforgettable tragedy which spoiled his whole life.
"After they brought me in a house they took off my clothes and burnt them, they kept me all the time naked besides torturing," said Abbas. "The incident made my life painful, I had to leave my school because every body was hating and laughing at me."
Culprits were free. Instead of taking action on his complaints police blamed him that he did this himself intentionally for some money.
Abbas could not bear the social humiliation and finally bought a pistol and killed three of them before getting sentenced for 25 years imprisonment by the courts.
According to a report "Cruel Numbers" issued by Sahil, a non governmental organization (NGO) working exclusively on child sexual abuse and exploitation in Pakistan, in 2010 a total of 2, 252 children were sexually abused throughout the country.
The report tells a harsh reality that these figures are based on reported incidents so the actual number might be much larger as majority of people hesitate to report for their social face saving.
The Sahil, that monitors 66 newspapers daily across Pakistan to collect statistics, categorized the crime in three major categories showing that 48 percent cases were of rape/sodomy, 31 percent cases of gang-rape/sodomy and 19 percent cases of attempt of rape/sodomy.
Both sexes were assaulted as girls became victims with 73 percent and boys 27 percent, under most vulnerable age of 11-18 years for girls and 6-15 years for boys.
A total of 4,543 abusers were involved in abusing 2,252 children among whom more than half of the victims faced one time abuse and 21 percent were abused for more than a day. Almost 67 percent of the cases were reported from rural areas whereas 33 percent were reported from urban areas.
Sodomy is covered under the law of Pakistan Penal Code. "Our state considers sodomy a far more serious crime than vaginal penetration or any other sexual violence, definitely we shall have to deal evil with iron hand to eradicate it," said Muhammad Rafiq, a social worker against this crime.
Some religious scholars suggested sentence to death to stop this rising evil, which always was considered as unnatural and against humanity.
The courts performance has been remained satisfactory but people consider the worst role is of police, which has almost failed to control the crime and punish culprits due to their own interests.
Recently Punjab province police arranged sodomy of a young boy in custody by a criminal in jail. In another case in the east city of Lahore three police officers arrested a boy, beat and raped him in custody, and later distributed a video of the rape.
This terrible offense has invisible motives and reasons behind it but porn-addiction, sexual-frustration, use of drugs, psychological-illness, no fear of reprisal from the law and society are considered as common reasons.
Many victims of rape, sodomy, and incest were murdered by the rapists to conceal their crime and 80 percent of the survivals have fallen prey to different physical and psychological problems, like sleep disturbance, fatigue, headaches, respiratory infections, chest pains and so on.
The children who could not bear depressions become aggressive like "Abbas" and try to avenge the abuse.
Sahil recommended dire need of focus on child protection issues, inclusion of a course in primary education to encourage children for body safety, media responsibility, and providing adults and communities with information to recognize the warning signs of sexual abuse.
Abbas is not hopeful and does not see any charm in his future life as he would be 40 after spending major golden part of his life in prison. But he still urges the government, people and especially police to favor sodomized/raped people to give them justice so that they can live with some peace in their lives.

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[h=1]India Bihar rapes 'caused by lack of toilets'[/h]By Amarnath TewaryPatna, Bihar

• 9 May 2013
  
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More than half-a-billion Indians lack access to basic sanitationMost of the cases of rape of women and girls in India's Bihar state occur when they go out to defecate in the open, police and social activists say.
Some 85% of the rural households in the state, one of India's poorest, have no access to a toilet, a study says.
The police reported more than 870 cases of rape in Bihar last year.
More than half-a-billion Indians lack access to basic sanitation. Many do not have access to flush toilets or other latrines.
The issue of sexual violence against women and girls in India has been under intense scrutiny since the gang rape and murder of a student on a Delhi bus in December led to widespread protests.
In March, India passed a new bill containing harsher punishments, including the death penalty, for rapists.
[h=2]'Worrisome trend'[/h]There have been a number of recent cases where women and girls have been raped in Bihar after they stepped out of their homes to defecate:

• On 5 May, an 11-year-old girl was raped in Mai village in Jehanabad district when she was going to the field at night

• On 28 April, a young girl was abducted and raped when she had gone out to defecate in an open field in Kalapur village in Naubatpur, 35km (21 miles) from the state capital, Patna

• On 24 April, another girl was raped in similar circumstances on a farm in Chaunniya village in Sheikhpura district. She told the police that two villagers had followed and raped her. One of them has been arrested.

Senior police official Arvind Pandey told the BBC that such cases happen every month in Bihar.
"They take place when women step out to defecate early in the morning and late evening. It is a very worrisome trend."
Mr Pandey said that about 400 women would have "escaped" rape last year if they had toilets in their homes.
A recent study by global health organisation Population Service International (PSI) and Monitor Delloitte, done in collaboration with Water for People, said that Bihar had India's poorest sanitation indicators with 85% rural households having no access to toilets.
The report added that 49% of the households that did not have a toilet wanted one for "safety and security".
Some 45% wanted a toilet for "convenience", while 4% wanted one for "privacy".
"Surprisingly, only 1% indicated health as a motivator for having a toilet," the report said.
The Bihar government says it plans to provide toilets to more than 10 million households in the state by 2022 under a federal scheme.
A law making toilets mandatory has been introduced in several states as part of the "sanitation for all" drive by the Indian government.
Special funds are made available for people to construct toilets to promote hygiene and eradicate the practice of faeces collection - or scavenging - which is mainly carried out by low-caste people.

And children are raped in Madarassas!!!!

The Saints Of Dark Sins
An AIDS conference woke Pakistan to a stark, ugly reality: the rampant sodomy in madrassas
MARIANA BAABAR
Special Issue: 4. International

For decades, it has been a sight common to most Pakistani homes: the bearded maulana teaching children the holy Quran. But what has changed over the last few years is the presence of a family elder at these private tuitions, irrespective of the child's gender. The family elder, though it's tacit, is there to deter the maulana from preying upon children for sexual gratification. Indeed, the maulana's penchant to sodomise the male child, or molest girls, has been Pakistan's darkest, best-kept secret.

Until it was made public last month at a most unusual venue: a World AIDS Day conference in Islamabad.

Husain cited 500 cases of sexual abuse in 2004, 2,000 in 2003.


And the person who dared talk about it was the country's junior minister for religion, ushr and zakat, Dr Amir Liaquat Husain. The irrepressible minister, who conducts a weekly religious programme on a private TV channel, said Pakistan
must countenance the harsh truth about the madrassa's role in spreading AIDS. This was because, he offered to explain, maulanas are guilty of rampant sexual abuse of children.

There was an ironical backdrop to Husain's decision to blow the whistle. The Pakistan government has in recent times been trying to revamp the country's antediluvian madrassas, and also hoping they could, because of their tremendous clout, spread awareness about AIDS in society. Obviously, Husain assumed, the maulanas couldn't teach safe sex even as they abused their pupils. Lest his audience was unaware of how rampant the menace was in madrassas, the minister said, "During a raid on a madrassa in Karachi, I caught a cleric red-handed, abusing a student sexually.
An inquiry was ordered."

Since that conference on December 1, Husain's remarks have continued to generate controversy, gathering momentum every day with clerics,

The revelation comes when madrassas were being asked to help spread AIDS awareness.

the government and the minister's party, the MQM, joining issue. The initial response of the clerics was to run for cover and keep mum on the affair. But as the western media picked up the contentious thread, the maulanas rallied to hit back as only they could. They issued death threats to Husain.

Not one to be pummelled by the unholy passion of the maulanas, Husain began to reel out statistics to the media to bolster his case. There were 500 reported cases of sexual abuse involving the maulanas in 2004; it was as high as 2,000 in 2003; and, worse, there hasn't yet been a successful prosecution.

The fury of the fundamentalists prompted a nervous Shaukat Aziz government to ask the senior religious minister, Ijaz-ul-Haq, to mollify the clerics. In doing so, Ijaz was attempting to appease the constituency of fundamentalists whom his father, Zia-ul-Haq, had so assiduously cultivated. In the Senate, the conglomeration of religious parties, Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal, and even liberal parties like the Pakistan People's Party banded together to demand an apology from Husain. PPP spokesperson Farhatullah Babar told Outlook, "Actually, Husain made a sweeping statement and painted everyone black with his brush. He should have talked about specific examples."

The MQM found the heat difficult to bear. It asked Husain to apologise. Sans support from the political class and civil society, Husain relented: he apologised in the last week of December. Some thought President Pervez Musharraf, whose post-9/11 rhetoric has been anti-fundamentalist, should have publicly backed Husain's fight against the maulanas. Musharraf, however, remained silent, though it is said he told the junior minister in private that he shouldn't have apologised.

Some western websites perceived a political dimension in the controversy. As one of these noted, rather gravely, "Rape is practised to break the spirit of the child and make him obedient to the extent that he can carry out terrorist acts, including suicide bombing.

The minister should take the funds available from foreign sources and simply take the pre-teen children out of residential seminaries, (besides) replacing them with normal (read secular) schools."

Others saw a global trend in the incidents of sexual abuse in Pakistan's religious seminaries. There have been infamous cases of Catholic priests sexually exploiting children in the West; there's also the cases surrounding the Kanchi math in India currently. With the 'faithful' betraying the faith the child reposes in them, psychologist Dr Iffat Hussain points out, "Abuse on children has devastating effects on their lives later on. Sexual abuse not only destroys the child's personality but also turns such abused individuals into culprits later on."

The controversy received a fresh impetus this week as the National AIDS Control Programme held a workshop in Islamabad. Its goal: to convince religious leaders to encourage HIV/AIDS patients to use contraceptives instead of separating from their partners. They were also encouraged to talk about the HIV/AIDS kit in their Friday sermons. The moot question is: is the mullah suited for the job?

Pakistani NGO SPARC (Society for Protection of the Rights of the Child) in its 2003 report says that an amount of $225 million has been earmarked to modernise 8,000 madrassas over three years. The modernisation programme, it is hoped, could also help spread consciousness about AIDS. Yet, the same report says 14 per cent of all child-abusers in 2003 were clerics. SPARC activists cite three specific cases from 2004 to illustrate sexual abuse of children and their brutalisation in religious seminaries.

Case One
In June 2004, when five-year-old Talha did not return from the Lajna mosque in Lahore, where he had gone to take Quranic lessons from Maulvi Mohammad Altaf, his mother went to fetch him. She found the boy in the corridor of the mosque, bleeding and unconscious; the maulvi was missing from the mosque. An fir was duly lodged. Altaf was subsequently arrested and Tahla identified him as the person who had sodomised him.

The family was determined to pursue the case. But soon different religious groups began to mount pressure on them to drop the case; the family was even told that these "maulvis have links with Al Qaeda". Pressure was, apparently, also brought upon the police. The family ultimately relented in July, agreeing to not pursue their case and withdrawing their witnesses.

Case Two
Sanam, 9, daughter of Mohammad Saleh Kori, a resident of the Microwave Colony, Sukkur, Sind, was a student of Abdul Wahid Chachar's madrassa. On February 15, 2004, at the end of her classes, Maulvi Abdul Wahid told her that she was his wife and would have to live with him. Sanam rushed out to tell her parents about the incident. When her father went to the madrassa to complain, Abdul produced a nikahnama bearing Kori and his daughter's signatures.

The father-daughter had been tricked into appending their signature to the marriage document. Apparently, the maulana had asked them to sign on a form, claiming it would enable the family to receive zakat (charity money). The illiterate father, obviously, couldn't distinguish between a zakat form and a nikahnama. Worse, the local Chachar tribesmen began pressuring him to hand over Sanam to Abdul.

Case Three
Child abuse in seminaries often involves physical torture. As in the case of 11-year-old Atif. Brutally assaulted at a seminary in Faisalabad, he is currently undergoing treatment at the Children's Hospital in Lahore. On May 1, 2004, he was quoted saying, "I was punished by the teacher who wanted to make an example of me because I dared to escape from the daily routine of beatings at the seminary." Once nabbed, he was chained and detained in a room at the seminary; Maulvi Mahboob Alam then beat him severely with an iron rod. The hospital's treatment note says the boy was brought in with a head injury and bruises all over the body. Atif's case came to light following the intervention of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan.

It's one thing to take legal action against culprits or modernise madrassas. It's quite another to retreat against the fury of fundamentalists keen to insulate their arcane world from scrutiny and criticism. A pity Pakistanis let down Husain.

What is the problem with these people, my friends?!?!?!?!?! WHAT?!?!?!?!?!!!!???!!!

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[h=2]13-year-old Devdasi Girl, #Raped by #Religious Leaders in #India, Gives Birth[/h]Posted on January 8, 2015 by THE 50 MILLION MISSING CAMPAIGN

December 28, 2014, Maharashtra
A 13-year-old “devdasi” who was repeatedly raped over a period of time by several “religious leaders” in Akole tehsil of Ahmednagar, gave birth to a daughter. The police has arrested four persons. The girl was sold off as a ‘Devdasi’ by her grandmother Leelabai Jadhav when she was one year old. When she was 10, she was taken away to sing in gondhal (night programmes) by prime accused Rajendra Chavan, who was also her “guru” and godfather. She is believed to have been sexually abused by Chavan and many others since she was 10.
http://www.asianage.com/india/raped-13-year-old-devdasi-gives-birth-4-held-552
Despite numerous laws, the Devdasi tradition where daughters are sold into ‘temple prostitution’ continues to flourish in India. For more see this reporthttp://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2011/jan/21/devadasi-india-sex-work-religion

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ISLAMABAD, April 22 (Xinhua) -- Living behind the bars for last 15 years, Tanveer Abbas (alias), 30, has been spending every painful day with a question nagging in his mind, "What is his fault that makes him to face life imprisonment?"
Sitting at the floor of a prisoners' cell in the central jail in Pakistan's historical city of Multan, Abbas narrated how he was abducted and raped by five notorious men turn-by-turn for more than a week before throwing him comatose in the outskirts of the city.
He was 9th class student in a secondary school in Vehari district in southern part of the Punjab province when he faced that unforgettable tragedy which spoiled his whole life.
"After they brought me in a house they took off my clothes and burnt them, they kept me all the time naked besides torturing," said Abbas. "The incident made my life painful, I had to leave my school because every body was hating and laughing at me."
Culprits were free. Instead of taking action on his complaints police blamed him that he did this himself intentionally for some money.
Abbas could not bear the social humiliation and finally bought a pistol and killed three of them before getting sentenced for 25 years imprisonment by the courts.
According to a report "Cruel Numbers" issued by Sahil, a non governmental organization (NGO) working exclusively on child sexual abuse and exploitation in Pakistan, in 2010 a total of 2, 252 children were sexually abused throughout the country.
The report tells a harsh reality that these figures are based on reported incidents so the actual number might be much larger as majority of people hesitate to report for their social face saving.
The Sahil, that monitors 66 newspapers daily across Pakistan to collect statistics, categorized the crime in three major categories showing that 48 percent cases were of rape/sodomy, 31 percent cases of gang-rape/sodomy and 19 percent cases of attempt of rape/sodomy.
Both sexes were assaulted as girls became victims with 73 percent and boys 27 percent, under most vulnerable age of 11-18 years for girls and 6-15 years for boys.
A total of 4,543 abusers were involved in abusing 2,252 children among whom more than half of the victims faced one time abuse and 21 percent were abused for more than a day. Almost 67 percent of the cases were reported from rural areas whereas 33 percent were reported from urban areas.
Sodomy is covered under the law of Pakistan Penal Code. "Our state considers sodomy a far more serious crime than vaginal penetration or any other sexual violence, definitely we shall have to deal evil with iron hand to eradicate it," said Muhammad Rafiq, a social worker against this crime.
Some religious scholars suggested sentence to death to stop this rising evil, which always was considered as unnatural and against humanity.
The courts performance has been remained satisfactory but people consider the worst role is of police, which has almost failed to control the crime and punish culprits due to their own interests.
Recently Punjab province police arranged sodomy of a young boy in custody by a criminal in jail. In another case in the east city of Lahore three police officers arrested a boy, beat and raped him in custody, and later distributed a video of the rape.
This terrible offense has invisible motives and reasons behind it but porn-addiction, sexual-frustration, use of drugs, psychological-illness, no fear of reprisal from the law and society are considered as common reasons.
Many victims of rape, sodomy, and incest were murdered by the rapists to conceal their crime and 80 percent of the survivals have fallen prey to different physical and psychological problems, like sleep disturbance, fatigue, headaches, respiratory infections, chest pains and so on.
The children who could not bear depressions become aggressive like "Abbas" and try to avenge the abuse.
Sahil recommended dire need of focus on child protection issues, inclusion of a course in primary education to encourage children for body safety, media responsibility, and providing adults and communities with information to recognize the warning signs of sexual abuse.
Abbas is not hopeful and does not see any charm in his future life as he would be 40 after spending major golden part of his life in prison. But he still urges the government, people and especially police to favor sodomized/raped people to give them justice so that they can live with some peace in their lives.

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7 charged in Pakistan child abuse video case

By Sophia Saifi, Ralph Ellis and Laura Smith-Spark, CNN
Updated 1604 GMT (2304 HKT) August 12, 2015



Source: CNN


Child sexual abuse ring busted in Pakistan 03:14




Story highlights

• Protester: "The world's media is here, but the government has still not taken proper action"
• Police said a gang of 20 to 25 people made videos of the children being sexually abused
• Some 274 videos have been circulated, says the head of a child protection NGO

Kasur, Pakistan (CNN)Seven people accused of blackmailing scores of children into making sex videos and then blackmailing them again by threatening to sell the recordings have been arrested in Pakistan's Punjab province.

Police Officer Rai Babar Saeed said a gang of 20 to 25 people had abused the children between 2009 and 2014 in the village of Hussain Khan Wala in the Kasur district.
Chaudhary Hamid, a villager, said the gang blackmailed the children into engaging in sexual activity again and again to stop the videos from being leaked. Parents were also blackmailed, he said.
At least one CD shop in Kasur had been selling the videos, Saeed said. In most of the videos, the faces of criminals are not shown, but the child's face can be seen clearly, the officer said.
Latif Sara, a lawyer representing parents of the abused children and the head of a nongovernmental organization called Children Abuse Protection, said 274 videos had been circulated.
According to a survey by the group last week, one in three of the 500 households questioned in the district of Kasur had a child who had been sexually abused, Sara said.
CNN affiliate Geo TV reported higher numbers, saying around 400 videos were made of 280 minors.
Members of the local Farmers' Association are leading protests calling for justice for their children.
"The world's media is here, but the government has still not taken proper action against the atrocities that have occurred over here," protester Muhammad Hussain told CNN.
The Punjab chief minister's office ordered a judicial inquiry, according to a statement.
The statement said the suspects are between the ages of 14 and 25 and have been charged with sodomy and extortion.
U.N. children's agency UNICEF said the reports of children being sexually abused over several years in Kasur district were "appalling," and that it was in contact with the Pakistani government about the case.
"Our sympathies are with the children who have been victims to this abuse," said Philippe Cori, UNICEF deputy regional director for South Asia.
"It is vital that the children and families affected are immediately offered the necessary care and protection that will prevent further victimization and allow the difficult process of healing to begin."
CNN's Sophia Saifi reported from Kasur, while Ralph Ellis wrote from Atlanta and Laura Smith-Spark from London.

 

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Madrassa sodomy victim still awaits justice

• Lahore

JANUARY 5, 2011 BY STAFF REPORT

LAHORE – Sabzazar police has not yet arrested the three accused who sodomized an 8-year-old eight days ago, police sources said on Wednesday.
Sources said that the victim Umer Shahzad, a resident of Shadiwal, studied at a local madrassa, Noor-ul-Furqan, located a few yards away from his house. Some eight days ago, second to the administrator of the aforementioned Madrasa, Qari Sadaqat, along with his two unidentified accomplices, took Umer Shahzad to an under construction house and sexually assaulted the minor boy. As a result, Umer was injured and shifted to the Children Hospital. Police has registered a case but they have not yet made any arrests. Umer’s brother, Ghulam Abbas, said Umer had told about the three men, after coming into his senses, over which they had requested the police too take stern action against the criminals. He said that in Umer’s case the accused were identified and were traceable but he could not understand why police was not arresting them. Meanwhile, two men were found dead whereas four people sustained injuries in four separate cases on Wednesday.
ACCIDENTS: Three people including two minor girls were injured when a car ran over them in Mughalpura police precincts on Wednesday. The injured were identified as Amna (11), Aisha (9) and Arif (35).
The aforementioned people were going on a motorcycle when an unidentified rashly driven car hit them. They were then rushed to the Services Hospital, where their condition is said to be critical. The car driver managed to escape, whereas police have registered a case against the unidentified car driver upon the request of the Arif’s brother and have started an investigation. An electric pole fell on a 27-year-old man on Multan Road on Wednesday.
Farhan, a laborer, was working at an under construction house when an electric pole installed near the house suddenly collapsed on him. He was injured and rushed to the Jinnah Hospital, where his condition is said to be critical.
FOUND DEAD: A man was found dead on the road opposite to Data Darbar, in Lower Mall police precincts on Wednesday. The deceased, yet to be identified, was spotted by the locals, who informed the police. Police suspect that the man was a drug addict and died of drug abuse. The body was then shifted to the morgue for an autopsy. A 65-year-old man was found dead in Bhatti Gate police precincts on Wednesday.
The deceased is yet to be identified and police suspects that he was a drug addict and died of hypothermia. Police officials made announcements but no one showed up to claim the body, which was later shifted to the morgue.

 

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70-year-old Indian priest rapes minor girls inside temple premises

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• Lahore

JANUARY 5, 2011 BY STAFF REPORT

LAHORE – Sabzazar police has not yet arrested the three accused who sodomized an 8-year-old eight days ago, police sources said on Wednesday.
Sources said that the victim Umer Shahzad, a resident of Shadiwal, studied at a local madrassa, Noor-ul-Furqan, located a few yards away from his house. Some eight days ago, second to the administrator of the aforementioned Madrasa, Qari Sadaqat, along with his two unidentified accomplices, took Umer Shahzad to an under construction house and sexually assaulted the minor boy. As a result, Umer was injured and shifted to the Children Hospital. Police has registered a case but they have not yet made any arrests. Umer’s brother, Ghulam Abbas, said Umer had told about the three men, after coming into his senses, over which they had requested the police too take stern action against the criminals. He said that in Umer’s case the accused were identified and were traceable but he could not understand why police was not arresting them. Meanwhile, two men were found dead whereas four people sustained injuries in four separate cases on Wednesday.
ACCIDENTS: Three people including two minor girls were injured when a car ran over them in Mughalpura police precincts on Wednesday. The injured were identified as Amna (11), Aisha (9) and Arif (35).
The aforementioned people were going on a motorcycle when an unidentified rashly driven car hit them. They were then rushed to the Services Hospital, where their condition is said to be critical. The car driver managed to escape, whereas police have registered a case against the unidentified car driver upon the request of the Arif’s brother and have started an investigation. An electric pole fell on a 27-year-old man on Multan Road on Wednesday.
Farhan, a laborer, was working at an under construction house when an electric pole installed near the house suddenly collapsed on him. He was injured and rushed to the Jinnah Hospital, where his condition is said to be critical.
FOUND DEAD: A man was found dead on the road opposite to Data Darbar, in Lower Mall police precincts on Wednesday. The deceased, yet to be identified, was spotted by the locals, who informed the police. Police suspect that the man was a drug addict and died of drug abuse. The body was then shifted to the morgue for an autopsy. A 65-year-old man was found dead in Bhatti Gate police precincts on Wednesday.
The deceased is yet to be identified and police suspects that he was a drug addict and died of hypothermia. Police officials made announcements but no one showed up to claim the body, which was later shifted to the morgue.

 

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Kasur reveals the ugly truth about child abuse in Pakistan

By Omar R QuraishiAugust 11, 2015 16:00

The shocking child abuse scandal in Kasur unearthed by a brave reporter of The Nation will maybe now jolt us awake so that we can see this monster prevalent in our society.The scale of the Kasur scandal is horrific — 400 videos of some 280 children who were forced to have sex while being filmed — and the manner in which the local police and MP tried to cover it up is depressing.The tapes that were made were then used to blackmail the parents of the victims into keeping quiet and into giving money to the paedophilia ring. These tapes were also being sold to locals in the town for Rs 50 and even, according to one report, were being sold to paedophile websites overseas.Read more: Pakistan’s largest ever child abuse scandal comes to light in Punjab town of KasurThat it happened for so long — since 2009 — and was kept under wraps and even the media was unaware of it till now is cause for concern.The local MPA is believed to have covered it up and even used his power and influence to ensure that the local police don’t follow it up and even managed to secure the release — before the scandal came out in the media — of one of the primary accused.

The matter is now being investigated and — mainly because of media pressure (including on social media) — 15 people have already been arrested and charged. The pressure from civil society and the media will have to be vigorous and consistent if we are to ensure that the victims and their families get justice in this case.

The local administration officials, police and especially the area MPA should also be probed under the premise that how could they have not known all this was happening for so long. The state should seek to charge them with deflection of duty at the very least.Ugly truth revealed

Kasur had revealed the truth about paedophilia in Pakistan and it is an ugly one.First, that paedophilia is far more prevalent in society than we are willing to admit or recognize.Second, it is often done in an organized manner and those agents of the state whose job it is to protect citizens and uphold the law such as police and legislators do the very opposite. In the case of Kasur the police actively sought to stifle and muzzle the protests carried out by the victims and even went so far as to arrest the one villager who wanted to expose the scandal to the media.

Third, there is an active market for paedophile paraphernalia especially videos and pictures and it exists in Pakistan. We can either pretend that ut doesn’t exisyexist and continue burying our heads in the sand or we can wake up and see this clear and present danger ro our children and act against it.Fourth, many of us ignore this activity which may be present in society as a whole. Take the case of the notorious serial killer and paedophile Javed Iqbal who confessed and was convicted of raping and killing over 100 boys in Lahore in the late 1990s. He was caught several times and even sent to jail for sodomy but always managed to get out of jail.

Javed Iqbal – who sexually assaulted and killed over 100 children in Pakistan in the late 1990s.​

Even when he was eventually caught, it was he who surrendered himself at the offices of Jang in Lahore. Later police found his house in a congested part of Lahore complete with two vats of acid in which he would dissolve his victims bodies after raping and killing them. And all this happened without any of his neighbours even bothering to report him to the police even for suspicious activity let alone murder.Let’s hope the Javed Iqbala of Kasur get what they deserve. If any deserves to hang at all it should be the perpetrators of such horrific acts.

 

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India's streak of making headlines for horrific acts of rape and sexual assault continues this week with the revelation that two young girls, aged seven and eight, were raped in a temple in South Delhi by a 70 year old priest.
The priest, Baba Vishvabandhu, allegedly molested the girls over the course of a week, taking advantage of Janmashtami day, when celebrations were taking place. The eight year old girl broke down and revealed what happened to her mother, after complaining of pain in her abdomen and difficulty passing urine.

The girls said that the man molested them each time they had gone to the temple in the past week. He offered money and food to buy their silence, and threatened them to ensure they told no-one about what he had done.
When the news broke, residents of the area dragged the priest out of the temple and beat him before going to the police. He has been arrested, but there are not yet any details of the length of his sentence.
This comes after reports that India has been noted as one of the worst places to be a woman, just one notch below Saudi Arabia. Delhi, in particular, has been referred to as particularly unsafe for children. Across India, 58,224 crimes against children were recorded in 2013 alone.
H/T to @RegaJha

• Lahore

JANUARY 5, 2011 BY STAFF REPORT

LAHORE – Sabzazar police has not yet arrested the three accused who sodomized an 8-year-old eight days ago, police sources said on Wednesday.
Sources said that the victim Umer Shahzad, a resident of Shadiwal, studied at a local madrassa, Noor-ul-Furqan, located a few yards away from his house. Some eight days ago, second to the administrator of the aforementioned Madrasa, Qari Sadaqat, along with his two unidentified accomplices, took Umer Shahzad to an under construction house and sexually assaulted the minor boy. As a result, Umer was injured and shifted to the Children Hospital. Police has registered a case but they have not yet made any arrests. Umer’s brother, Ghulam Abbas, said Umer had told about the three men, after coming into his senses, over which they had requested the police too take stern action against the criminals. He said that in Umer’s case the accused were identified and were traceable but he could not understand why police was not arresting them. Meanwhile, two men were found dead whereas four people sustained injuries in four separate cases on Wednesday.
ACCIDENTS: Three people including two minor girls were injured when a car ran over them in Mughalpura police precincts on Wednesday. The injured were identified as Amna (11), Aisha (9) and Arif (35).
The aforementioned people were going on a motorcycle when an unidentified rashly driven car hit them. They were then rushed to the Services Hospital, where their condition is said to be critical. The car driver managed to escape, whereas police have registered a case against the unidentified car driver upon the request of the Arif’s brother and have started an investigation. An electric pole fell on a 27-year-old man on Multan Road on Wednesday.
Farhan, a laborer, was working at an under construction house when an electric pole installed near the house suddenly collapsed on him. He was injured and rushed to the Jinnah Hospital, where his condition is said to be critical.
FOUND DEAD: A man was found dead on the road opposite to Data Darbar, in Lower Mall police precincts on Wednesday. The deceased, yet to be identified, was spotted by the locals, who informed the police. Police suspect that the man was a drug addict and died of drug abuse. The body was then shifted to the morgue for an autopsy. A 65-year-old man was found dead in Bhatti Gate police precincts on Wednesday.
The deceased is yet to be identified and police suspects that he was a drug addict and died of hypothermia. Police officials made announcements but no one showed up to claim the body, which was later shifted to the morgue.

 

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10-year-old boy sodomised

• Lahore

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014 BY STAFF REPORT

A 10-year-old boy was sodomised near Lajpat Road at Shahdara this weekend.
According to sources, the son of an electrician left his house to buy some household items from a local grocery shop, owned by Abdullah and Muneer, when Abdullah took him inside his house and sexually assaulted him.
Family members of the child said that their child informed them about the incident on which they immediately informed the police and registered their complaint.
Taking action on the complaint, Shahdara Police Station arrested Abdullah’s father who later disclosed his son’s location to the police. Police arrested Abdullah and released his father but the other accused Muneer fled from the scene. Police said the child identified the culprit to be Abdullah.
Locals said two other incidents have been reported in the past at the same shop but former MPA interfered and resolved the matter.
BURN VICTIM DIES: A boy who was immolated in Green Town police precincts a few days ago and was under treatment at Jinnah Hospital breathed his last on Sunday.
Hassan and Asif were burnt badly while playing in the street in the area of Butt Chowk, Green Town on September 16.
It was reported that two unidentified men riding motorbike threw petrol and burnt them. The victims were later shifted to the Jinnah Hospital by the locals.
Both kids were being treated for the last few days, where Hassan lost his life yesterday while Asif is still being treated at the hospital. The police have handed over the dead body after completing initial enquiry.
FOREIGN RETURN FAMILY ROBBED: Unidentified men robbed a foreign return family at the Canal Road on Sunday.
As per details, Tahir and his family were going to their house from Lahore Airport when unidentified men, pretending to be Customs officials, intercepted them at the Canal Road and robbed them of 3000 pounds, 10 tolas of gold and other valuables and escaped from the scene.
The victims said a police mobile was nearby when the incident occurred but they did not help them. Few days ago another family was also robbed by the robbers pretending to be custom officials.
MAN MURDERS WIFE, COMMITS SUICIDE: A man commits suicide after murdering his wife near Cha Timwali, Manga Mandi.
As per details, Afzal, 25, went to bring his wife back home from her parents’ house on Sunday when the woman’s parents refused to send her back. Afzal got furious and opened fire murdering his wife Shahzia and later shot himself too.

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[h=1]Delhi woman raped, sodomised and made to drink urine by husband on honeymoon in Thailand[/h]India Today Online New Delhi, December 13, 2013 | UPDATED 18:54 IST

A newly married woman has accused her husband, an executive with a private firm, of brutally raping and sodomising her during their honeymoon in Thailand, police said on Thursday.

The 23-year-old victim, along with her family, approached police late last night after which an FIR under relevant sections of the IPC was lodged against the victim's husband, Punit Bhardwaj.

She was taken to Deen Dayal Upadhyay Hospital where sodomy was confirmed in her medical examination. She was also given medical assistance there, police said.

Her husband, who works as a project manager with a multinational company, is at large and several police teams have been deployed to nab him, police said.

"In her complaint, the victim said that her husband's behaviour during their honeymoon in Bangkok caused unbearable physical and mental torture to her. She also said that initially, they were supposed to go to Maldives but her husband took her to Bangkok," a police official said.

The victim, who also works at a private firm, married Bhardwaj on November 29. It was an arranged marriage, after which the couple went to Bangkok on 1 December for their honeymoon and returned to the national capital on December 8.

The woman shared her ordeal with her parents after returning home, following which the family decided to approach police alleging that she was confined, mercilessly raped and sodomised by her husband during their honeymoon trip.

Sometimes, she was also forced to drink urine.

Police have taken up investigation and a manhunt has been launched to nab Bhardwaj, the official said.

-With PTI inputs

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By Omar R QuraishiAugust 11, 2015 16:00

The shocking child abuse scandal in Kasur unearthed by a brave reporter of The Nation will maybe now jolt us awake so that we can see this monster prevalent in our society.The scale of the Kasur scandal is horrific — 400 videos of some 280 children who were forced to have sex while being filmed — and the manner in which the local police and MP tried to cover it up is depressing.The tapes that were made were then used to blackmail the parents of the victims into keeping quiet and into giving money to the paedophilia ring. These tapes were also being sold to locals in the town for Rs 50 and even, according to one report, were being sold to paedophile websites overseas.Read more: Pakistan’s largest ever child abuse scandal comes to light in Punjab town of KasurThat it happened for so long — since 2009 — and was kept under wraps and even the media was unaware of it till now is cause for concern.The local MPA is believed to have covered it up and even used his power and influence to ensure that the local police don’t follow it up and even managed to secure the release — before the scandal came out in the media — of one of the primary accused.

The matter is now being investigated and — mainly because of media pressure (including on social media) — 15 people have already been arrested and charged. The pressure from civil society and the media will have to be vigorous and consistent if we are to ensure that the victims and their families get justice in this case.

The local administration officials, police and especially the area MPA should also be probed under the premise that how could they have not known all this was happening for so long. The state should seek to charge them with deflection of duty at the very least.Ugly truth revealed

Kasur had revealed the truth about paedophilia in Pakistan and it is an ugly one.First, that paedophilia is far more prevalent in society than we are willing to admit or recognize.Second, it is often done in an organized manner and those agents of the state whose job it is to protect citizens and uphold the law such as police and legislators do the very opposite. In the case of Kasur the police actively sought to stifle and muzzle the protests carried out by the victims and even went so far as to arrest the one villager who wanted to expose the scandal to the media.

Third, there is an active market for paedophile paraphernalia especially videos and pictures and it exists in Pakistan. We can either pretend that ut doesn’t exisyexist and continue burying our heads in the sand or we can wake up and see this clear and present danger ro our children and act against it.Fourth, many of us ignore this activity which may be present in society as a whole. Take the case of the notorious serial killer and paedophile Javed Iqbal who confessed and was convicted of raping and killing over 100 boys in Lahore in the late 1990s. He was caught several times and even sent to jail for sodomy but always managed to get out of jail.

Javed Iqbal – who sexually assaulted and killed over 100 children in Pakistan in the late 1990s.​

Even when he was eventually caught, it was he who surrendered himself at the offices of Jang in Lahore. Later police found his house in a congested part of Lahore complete with two vats of acid in which he would dissolve his victims bodies after raping and killing them. And all this happened without any of his neighbours even bothering to report him to the police even for suspicious activity let alone murder.Let’s hope the Javed Iqbala of Kasur get what they deserve. If any deserves to hang at all it should be the perpetrators of such horrific acts.

 

[ballumsingh]

Child rape now gets more media attention in Pakistan

REPORT

from IRINPublished on 24 Sep 2013 —View Original


LAHORE, 24 September 2013 (IRIN) - It is a fact few are willing to face, but each year hundreds - perhaps thousands - of children under 18 in Pakistan are raped or sodomized, and the situation is either getting worse or being more widely reported.
According to the Islamabad-based NGO Sahil there were 3,861 child sexual abuse cases in 2012 - a 17 percent increase on the previous year. The data is drawn from NGOs monitoring the situation, child abuse helplines and Sahil's own media monitoring.
But, as in many parts of the world, abuse is probably under-reported. "In our conservative society rape is a taboo," Shiraz Ahmed, survival support officer at Karachi-based NGO War Against Rape (WAR), told IRIN. "People do not talk about it, including the victims themselves."
WAR has documented a number of cases of rape, some involving very young children, and also detailed the reluctance of victims to speak out, and their difficulties in obtaining justice when they do.
But there is some evidence attitudes may be changing. Following the brutal rape of a five-year-old girl, Sumbal, in Lahore on 13 September, there have beenwidespread protests; arrests have been made; the matter has been taken up at the highest levels of government; and a campaign has started on social media seeking justice for the child. She had been dumped outside a large hospital after the rape.
"Certainly, the Sumbal case and the amount of media attention it received has focused attention and raised awareness about the issue of rape and child sexual abuse," Habiba Salman, programme officer/media at Sahil, told IRIN.
She also said that "more cases" of child rape were being reported after the Sumbal incident from across the country.
In a separate recent case, protesters took to the streets in Faisalabad, where, according to media reports, a four-year-old boy was sodomized by the principal and other staff members of the kindergarten he attended.
Of the 2,788 cases of child abuse reported in the press in 2012, 342 involved rape and 139 sodomy. There were a further 386 cases in which rape or sodomy had been perpetrated by more than one individual. Most victims (22 percent) were aged 11-15; 16 percent were aged 6-10, and 6 percent 1-5.
Sahil notes that in 47 percent of cases the crime was carried out by an "acquaintance" or a person "known to the victim and his family". Women had abetted a male abuser in 168 cases.
"I would say somewhere around 10 to 20 percent of all rape cases that take place are reported," WAR's Ahmed told IRIN, explaining that the under-reporting was due in part to social pressures, the prolonged legal process, stigma associated with rape, and the handling of cases by police.
Dark secret
Zuleikha Bano*, 23, and her mother Abida Bibi, 55, from Lahore, share a dark secret. Eleven years ago, when Zuleikha was 13, she was raped by a neighbour.
Her mother took her to a doctor, who treated the child's injuries and "stitched back" the hymen, assuring Abida she was not pregnant. The mother says she "told no one what had happened, not even Zuleikha's father" because of the shame" it would cause him and the rest of the family.
Zuleikha's facial injuries were passed off as having been caused by a fall from a swing. She was told not to mention the matter and today she is married. She has not, according to her mother, told her husband.
Sahil's Salman told IRIN that while there was media hype around the Sumbal case there had been a general increase in awareness, partly thanks to Sahil.
"We give trainings to people, including primary school teachers in orthodox areas like Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa Province and Jaffarabad [in Balochistan Province] and tell them how to recognize sexual abuse, how to talk to children about it and so on. They do respond and implement in schools what is discussed at these workshops," she said.
There had also been an increased readiness to discuss the issue more openly, Salman said.
In most schools efforts to broach the topic have met with resistance, but attitudes, especially among the young, may be changing.
"People in my generation are quite willing to talk about rape and child sexual abuse," said Hina Abbas, 18, a college student who with her friends has been joining Sumbal-inspired protests in Lahore.
She said the high-profile rape cases in neighbouring India "had led to everyone talking much more openly about rape, molestation, harassment and all that," adding that some of her friends had been "shocked" to hear about how common sexual abuse of children was in an "Islamic country like ours".
"The rape of children under 10 is on the rise and in cases of child rape the average age is down from 18 to 14," said WAR's Ahmed.
Cramped living conditions did not help, he said. Some Karachi neighbourhoods, for instance, have houses with several families living in them, putting the children living there at particular risk.
While child sexual abuse may be on the front pages and is being more openly discussed than ever before, it is unclear how far attitudes will change in the longer term.
"Of course I will protect my child. But I don't think I could ever talk to her about sex or rape," said child rape survivor Zuleikha Bano, now the mother of a one-year-old girl.
*not a real name
kh/jj/cb

 

[modern.fakir]

Incest rapes in Delhi up, fathers among offenders

• Soibam Rocky Singh, Hindustan Times, New Delhi |
• Updated: Nov 19, 2014 02:45 IST

Figures submitted by Delhi Police reveal that out of 215 instances of incestuous rape in 2014, fathers were offenders in 43 cases. (PTI File Photo)

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Shocking figures submitted by the police to the Delhi high court have revealed that of the 1,704 cases of rape registered in the Capital in the first 10 months of this year, 215 were instances of incestuous rape. More disturbingly, in 43 of these cases it was the father who committed the crime and in 27 cases it was the brother.
In one case the accused turn out to be the victim’s grandfather and in another 23 rape cases the stepfather was the accused.
Watch: Delhi faces rising incest rapes, father and brothers among offenders
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The figures demonstrate that in most rape cases, the offender was a known person to the victim. Father-in-law’s were found involved in eight cases, son-in-law in three cases, and brother-in-law in 74 cases.
Not only this, uncle or maternal uncle were involved in 32 cases, and in four cases the accused turn out to be a cousin. And it wasn’t only immediate family members that preyed upon women.

In 352 cases, the neighbour was the accused and in another 83 cases a family friend had a role. Tutors or instructors were involved in 24 cases while five cases were registered against a priest or tantric. Friends were the perpetrators in a staggering 642 cases.
Of the 1,613 people arrested in these cases, 116 were illiterate and 570 were school dropouts, 122 were juveniles and 23 accused were above 50 years of age.
There were 1,711 victims in total of which four victims were below two years of age, 115 victims were between the age group of 2 to 7 years and 127 between 7 to 12 years.

The Delhi police said it was taking all necessary steps to make registration of crime hassle free so that victims can come forward to report the crime without hesitation. It claimed that reporting of crime against women has gone up substantially in recent times due to their efforts.
Now women officers in civil dresses directly visit the victim in hospitals to record statement and take up investigation, it said. “Victims do not have to visit police station,” it added.


http://www.hindustantimes.com/newde...fathers-among-offenders/article1-1287696.aspx

REPORT

from IRINPublished on 24 Sep 2013 —View Original


LAHORE, 24 September 2013 (IRIN) - It is a fact few are willing to face, but each year hundreds - perhaps thousands - of children under 18 in Pakistan are raped or sodomized, and the situation is either getting worse or being more widely reported.
According to the Islamabad-based NGO Sahil there were 3,861 child sexual abuse cases in 2012 - a 17 percent increase on the previous year. The data is drawn from NGOs monitoring the situation, child abuse helplines and Sahil's own media monitoring.
But, as in many parts of the world, abuse is probably under-reported. "In our conservative society rape is a taboo," Shiraz Ahmed, survival support officer at Karachi-based NGO War Against Rape (WAR), told IRIN. "People do not talk about it, including the victims themselves."
WAR has documented a number of cases of rape, some involving very young children, and also detailed the reluctance of victims to speak out, and their difficulties in obtaining justice when they do.
But there is some evidence attitudes may be changing. Following the brutal rape of a five-year-old girl, Sumbal, in Lahore on 13 September, there have beenwidespread protests; arrests have been made; the matter has been taken up at the highest levels of government; and a campaign has started on social media seeking justice for the child. She had been dumped outside a large hospital after the rape.
"Certainly, the Sumbal case and the amount of media attention it received has focused attention and raised awareness about the issue of rape and child sexual abuse," Habiba Salman, programme officer/media at Sahil, told IRIN.
She also said that "more cases" of child rape were being reported after the Sumbal incident from across the country.
In a separate recent case, protesters took to the streets in Faisalabad, where, according to media reports, a four-year-old boy was sodomized by the principal and other staff members of the kindergarten he attended.
Of the 2,788 cases of child abuse reported in the press in 2012, 342 involved rape and 139 sodomy. There were a further 386 cases in which rape or sodomy had been perpetrated by more than one individual. Most victims (22 percent) were aged 11-15; 16 percent were aged 6-10, and 6 percent 1-5.
Sahil notes that in 47 percent of cases the crime was carried out by an "acquaintance" or a person "known to the victim and his family". Women had abetted a male abuser in 168 cases.
"I would say somewhere around 10 to 20 percent of all rape cases that take place are reported," WAR's Ahmed told IRIN, explaining that the under-reporting was due in part to social pressures, the prolonged legal process, stigma associated with rape, and the handling of cases by police.
Dark secret
Zuleikha Bano*, 23, and her mother Abida Bibi, 55, from Lahore, share a dark secret. Eleven years ago, when Zuleikha was 13, she was raped by a neighbour.
Her mother took her to a doctor, who treated the child's injuries and "stitched back" the hymen, assuring Abida she was not pregnant. The mother says she "told no one what had happened, not even Zuleikha's father" because of the shame" it would cause him and the rest of the family.
Zuleikha's facial injuries were passed off as having been caused by a fall from a swing. She was told not to mention the matter and today she is married. She has not, according to her mother, told her husband.
Sahil's Salman told IRIN that while there was media hype around the Sumbal case there had been a general increase in awareness, partly thanks to Sahil.
"We give trainings to people, including primary school teachers in orthodox areas like Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa Province and Jaffarabad [in Balochistan Province] and tell them how to recognize sexual abuse, how to talk to children about it and so on. They do respond and implement in schools what is discussed at these workshops," she said.
There had also been an increased readiness to discuss the issue more openly, Salman said.
In most schools efforts to broach the topic have met with resistance, but attitudes, especially among the young, may be changing.
"People in my generation are quite willing to talk about rape and child sexual abuse," said Hina Abbas, 18, a college student who with her friends has been joining Sumbal-inspired protests in Lahore.
She said the high-profile rape cases in neighbouring India "had led to everyone talking much more openly about rape, molestation, harassment and all that," adding that some of her friends had been "shocked" to hear about how common sexual abuse of children was in an "Islamic country like ours".
"The rape of children under 10 is on the rise and in cases of child rape the average age is down from 18 to 14," said WAR's Ahmed.
Cramped living conditions did not help, he said. Some Karachi neighbourhoods, for instance, have houses with several families living in them, putting the children living there at particular risk.
While child sexual abuse may be on the front pages and is being more openly discussed than ever before, it is unclear how far attitudes will change in the longer term.
"Of course I will protect my child. But I don't think I could ever talk to her about sex or rape," said child rape survivor Zuleikha Bano, now the mother of a one-year-old girl.
*not a real name
kh/jj/cb