Tag: crimes against women

  • Brother in Rajanpur sells sister for Rs400,000

    Brother in Rajanpur sells sister for Rs400,000

    A man in Rajanpur sold his sister for Rs400,000. According to the police, a man named Bilal sold his sister with the help of his friends. A case has been registered on the complaint of the woman.

    The police have arrested two people, including Bilal who is the prime suspect. The police are currently investigating the case and raids are being conducted to arrest the other accused who were involved in the crime.

    Read more- Woman escapes rape attempt in Swat

    Last year, the police in Karachi rescued a woman who had been raped by her brother and was being held hostage by him for two years.

    Read more- Man arrested for raping daughter with friends, kept her in chains

  • Australian woman allegedly axed to death by father-in-law

    Australian woman allegedly axed to death by father-in-law

    Trigger warning: Murder/Abuse

    An Australian woman has allegedly been killed by her father-in-law in Sargodha. Sajida Tasneem was allegedly killed in front of her father at a home she shared with her in-laws on June 11.

    Sher Muhammad Khan, Tasneem’s father, claimed that his son-in-law Ayub Ahmed had coerced his daughter into leaving their Perth, Western Australia home and travelling to Pakistan with her three children, reports The Guardian.

    Mukhtar Ahmad, Tasneem’s father-in-law, is accused of taking Tasneem’s passport.

    The girl’s father reported to the police that on June 11, he allegedly saw Mukhtar abusing his daughter. He discovered them in a restroom at around 1:45 pm. After entering the restroom, Sher Muhammad Khan found Tasneem’s mouth was allegedly filled with a piece of cloth by Ahmad.

    The man then allegedly used an axe to strike Tasneem in the head. Mukthar Ahmad has been booked under murder charges.

    Police are still investigating the case.

  • Woman travelling from Multan to Karachi raped by train staff

    Woman travelling from Multan to Karachi raped by train staff

    A woman was gang-raped by train workers while travelling from Multan to Karachi on the Bahauddin Zakariya Express. According to details, the victim was raped by three men. The incident took place on May 27.

    Pakistan Railways in a statement said that ticket-checker Zahid, took the victim to an air-conditioned compartment of the train, where the manager Aqib was already present. Aqib, Zahid and another train staffer then sexually assaulted the victim.

    A first information report (FIR) was filed at the Railways Police Station under Sections 377 and 34 of the Pakistan Penal Code.

    As per Pakistan Railways, the accused persons have been arrested.

    Police is further investigating the incident.

  • 22-year-model allegedly killed by brother while visiting on Eid

    22-year-model allegedly killed by brother while visiting on Eid

    A model was killed in the name of honour in Okara, Punjab. Sidra, who was only 22, was allegedly murdered by her brother in Okara’s 51-R village. She was murdered by her brother while visiting her birthplace to celebrate Eid-ul-Fitr.

    Police have registered a case on the complaint of the victim’s mother. Police have arrested the victim’s brother and have recovered the murder weapon.

    Hamza, the accused, used to forbid his sisters from modelling.

    This murder is believed to be the result of a violent argument between Sidra and her brother over the girl’s refusal to give up her modelling career.

    Qandeel Baloch, a social media star, was strangled to death in Multan in July 2016. Her brothers Waseem Azeem and Aslam Shaheen were accused of murdering her. A court in Multan sentenced her brother Wasim Azeem to life in prison for murdering his sister. Life imprisonment means 25 years in jail.

    Read more- Qandeel Baloch’s murderer released by court

    However, this year in February, the Multan Bench of the Lahore High Court (LHC) acquitted Waseem Azeem.

  • Brother, sister killed in Bannu, alleged assassin captured

    A young boy along with his sister was gunned down by an unidentified killer in Bannu district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Tuesday.

    According to ARY News, the incident occurred in Mando Khel area of Bannu, situated in the jurisdiction of Cantt Police, where the killer murdered both the siblings and fled the scene.

    The police have shifted the dead bodies to a local hospital, and eventually captured the killer. The police have also launched further investigation to ascertain the motive behind the double murder.

    Separately,  a man from Gujranwala city in Punjab identified as Ateeq burned his wife alive for not giving birth to a son, reports ARY. The incident took place in the Kot Shekju area of Gujranwala. He had three daughters.

    Read more- Man burns wife alive for not giving birth to a son

    The man’s sister-in-law allegedly supported him in the crime. According to the authorities, after killing his wife, Ateeq fled the scene with his three daughters.

  • Man kills pregnant wife for saying ‘Mera Jism Meri Marzi’

    Man kills pregnant wife for saying ‘Mera Jism Meri Marzi’

    A man in Lahore killed his wife for chanting the slogan “Mera Jism Meri Marzi”, reports Geo News. According to details, the horrific incident took place in Lahore’s Shalimar area.

    Allah Ditta murdered 28-year-old Maimona, who was pregnant, by strangling her. He later tried to cover it up by burning her body and posing it as an accident.

    However, police have arrested him. The husband had married the victim four years ago and also has four children from his first wife.

    According to the police, the accused confessed to his crime during interrogation and said that his wife used to chant the slogan “Mera Jism Meri Marzi”, which made him angry so he murdered her.
  • Assistant commissioner attacked in Mansehra ‘for being a female officer’

    Assistant commissioner attacked in Mansehra ‘for being a female officer’

    Three men attacked Assistant Commissioner Marvi Malik Sher near Ghazi Kot in Mansehra last week. The hooligans also attempted to assault the assistant commissioner by pulling her out of her vehicle, injuring both her and the guard. Some onlookers rescued them and handed the three men over to the police.

    Zoha Malik, sister of Marvi Malik, has alleged that her sister was attacked because of her gender. “Some ruffians tried to attack my sister Marvi Malik Sher last evening for being a female officer. It’s the 21st century and women in leadership posts are still an anomaly to sick and prejudiced, patriarchy-ridden mindsets in our country,” Zoha Malik wrote in a tweet.

    Marvi Malik is one of five sisters who have set a record for passing the CSS exam and joining the bureaucracy.

  • More than 25,000 women abducted in Punjab in three years, police records reveal

    More than 25,000 women abducted in Punjab in three years, police records reveal

    According to police records, 25,099 women were abducted in Punjab between 2019 to 2021. As per details, 6,571 cases of abduction of women were registered in 2019, 8,129 cases were registered in 2020 and 10,399 cases of abduction of women were registered in 2021.

    According to the police, in the last three years, suspects involved in only eight cases of abduction have been convicted. Furthermore, 5,947 cases are still under investigation while challans of 5,157 cases have been submitted to the courts.

    As per the police records,13,901 cases of abduction of women were withdrawn because the abducted women said that they had left by choice. Moreover, 94 women have not been traced yet.

    Earlier this month, a report published in The News said that in the last six months 2,439 women were raped, 9,529 were kidnapped, while 90 women were killed in the name of honour in Punjab.

  • Video: Two women allegedly kill house help, hide body in a cardboard box

    Video: Two women allegedly kill house help, hide body in a cardboard box

    A body of a female house help was discovered in a cardboard box by police in Kahna on Friday, Ary News has reported. In the CCTV footage found by the police, two women — Bushra and her daughter Irum — can be seen dragging a cardboard box, which allegedly contained the victim’s body.

    As per the police, the victim named Yasmeen worked at the house of Bushra. According to the police, the victim was first strangled and then stabbed.

    The family of the victim has alleged that Yasmeen was killed by the mother and daughter.

    Police have sent the body for a postmortem to determine the cause of death, while Bushra and her daughter have escaped. The police are conducting raids to arrest the mother and daughter duo.

  • Faisalabad incident: Women confess to stripping themselves

    Faisalabad incident: Women confess to stripping themselves

    Chairperson of the Women Protection Authority Kaneez Fatima, while talking to ARY News, has revealed that the women who were allegedly stripped naked and beaten by locals have confessed to stripping themselves out of fear.

    “The women have confessed to stripping themselves out of fear and had apologized over the act committed by them,” said Kaneez Fatima.

    She continued by condemning the torture against the alleged female robbers saying that no one has the right to beat them up even if they are involved in stealing anything. On December 7, it was reported that four women were stripped naked and beaten by locals on the accusation of the theft. Later, more videos of the incident emerged in which the women could be seen stripping themselves.

    However, the case is still under investigation