Tag: rape allegations

  • Man arrested for raping three minor girls and killing two of them

    Man arrested for raping three minor girls and killing two of them

    A suspect who allegedly raped three minor girls was arrested by the police in Peshawar, reported Geo News.

    According to the police, the DNA test of the man matched with the girls and he also confessed to sexually assaulting the three minor girls and killing two of them.

    In his reported confession, he said he raped and killed a 10-year-old girl in the Railway Colony area on July 3 and also killed a girl in the Kalibari area after sexually assaulting her on July 17. He raped another victim on July 10.

    The accused is reportedly aged between 25 and 30 and worked as a craftsman.

    For this case, a special investigation team interviewed a survivor. The team also went through 50 images of suspects and conducted DNA tests of 100 people and investigated 200 residences, reports Express Tribune.

    Child molestation has been on the rise as it jumped up by 93 per cent in 2021 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP). The Central Police Office (CPO) has stated that 360 cases of child sexual abuse were recorded last year across the province.

  • Gojra motorway gang-rape incident turns out to be ‘blackmailing act’

    Gojra motorway gang-rape incident turns out to be ‘blackmailing act’

    Gojra motorway gang-rape incident has turned out to be a blackmailing act as the complainant and the victim of it were actually members of the inter-district gang, reports Dawn.

    Deputy Superintendent Police (DSP) revealed that the complainant dropped First Information Report (FIR) after filing it. He said that all gang members, including the victim and complainant, have been arrested and they have confessed to blackmailing a number of people.

    Shaheen Akhtar, the complainant said that her 18-year-old niece Irumun Nisa was raped by two people in a car while travelling from Gojra to Faisalabad. Moreover, she alleged that men lured her niece from Toba Tek Singh on the pretext of offering her a job.

    Initially, a person was arrested later the police discovered that Nisa was not the niece of complainant Akhtar and added that the gang members cooked up rape stories and extorted money from people.

  • ‘I do not want to pursue an FIR,’ woman withdraws gang-rape allegation

    ‘I do not want to pursue an FIR,’ woman withdraws gang-rape allegation

    A woman from Karachi who had alleged that she was raped by three men in Lahore has reportedly withdrawn her case, saying that the First Information Report (FIR) registered on her complaint was a “misunderstanding,” reports Dawn.

    The 18-year-old registered an FIR against three suspects on November 28. However, a day later she changed her stance and recorded a statement, saying, “I got the FIR registered against the accused persons due to misunderstanding. No one committed rape with me. I do not want to pursue the FIR and the same may kindly be cancelled.”

    After her complaint, Punjab Chief Minister (CM) Usman Buzdar had taken notice of the incident and had also directed officials to arrest the culprits while assuring the victim of justice.

    The victim also had declined to get herself medically examined. In her complaint, she said that she used to play Player Unknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG) during which she befriended a man. According to the complaint, the man asked her to come to Lahore and promised marriage. She arrived in the city on November 23 and the man took her to a local hotel where he raped her for three days. After that, he dropped her off at the train station on November 26 and left.

    It is reported that while the woman was waiting at the station, two men approached her and offered a job. She said that the two took her to a house on Sarwar Road where two more men helped them take her into a room. She added that they raped her several times, but eventually she escaped.

    Prior to the withdrawal of FIA, the victim had urged authorities to take action against all three men who had raped her.

  • Woman withdraws rape complaint, says suspect is her husband

    Woman withdraws rape complaint, says suspect is her husband

     A woman withdrew her allegation of getting repeatedly raped by a man at his house where she was staying after “returning from the United Kingdom” to attend her father’s funeral, claiming that the “suspect” was her husband.

    As per reports, the woman had earlier alleged that she had come to Pakistan from the UK six months ago for her father’s funeral. She said she was living at the house of her father’s close friend in Wahdat Colony, where his son allegedly raped her for three days.

    Police had filed a rape case against the suspect and detained him.

    However, when the woman appeared before a judicial magistrate, she claimed in a statement on Sunday that the suspect is her husband.

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    Deputy Inspector General (investigation) Shariq Jamal Khan told the media that the woman had first accused the man of raping her for three days but during the inquiry, she did not agree to undergo medical inspection and also backtracked on the rape allegation.

    The officials said the families of the woman and the suspect submitted a marriage certificate showing she was married to the accused. After that, she removed the rape complaint.

    The DIG said the woman was also involved in different cases of bounced cheques and presenting fake ID cards and documents to hide her identity.

    He said police investigations had revealed that the woman, who is from Multan, has never been to the UK.

  • ‘Rape is an act of violence’: Pakistanis educate PM Imran on rape

    ‘Rape is an act of violence’: Pakistanis educate PM Imran on rape

    Prime Minister Imran Khan on Sunday held an interactive session with the general public via phone calls in which he answered their questions and responded to their concerns.

    During the session, while responding to a question about what the federal government is doing to curb the recent surge of rape cases and sexual violence especially against children, PM Khan instead of laying out his government’s plans blamed the rising cases on vulgarity.

    The premier’s comments caused an uproar on social media, prompting Pakistanis to not only bust myths related to rape but also call him out for his insensitive remarks. Some even shared their own personal experiences to make it more clear that why rape happens and why it is never okay to blame the victim.

  • Hameed Haroon denies rape allegations after Jami names DAWN’s CEO as his alleged rapist. Jami Responds.

    Prominent Filmmaker Jamshed Mahmood, known as Jami had claimed in October that he had been raped by a “media tycoon” 13 years ago and had not named his rapist. He tweeted this from his twitter account, jamiazaad, which he says has now been hacked. The twitter thread is still present on the account. He said that “i was brutally raped by a very powerful person in our media world. A Giant actually, and yes, I’m taller than him but I froze…” He did not reveal the name of the media tycoon at that time.

    He recently named the alleged rapist as Hameed Haroon, the CEO of Dawn Newspaper. He named him in a tweet from a new twitter account.

    https://twitter.com/azadjami1/status/1210926255840940033

    Jami had tweeted two days ago and Hameed Haroon has now issued a statement, rejecting the rape allegations.

    WATCH: Why was Jami not taken seriously?

    Dawn Newspaper has printed Hameed Haroon’s statement. Parts of it are as follows:

    “For some three months now, tweets in the social media and some print media, some of which have been authored or prompted by Jami Raza, have alleged that Jami was subjected to rape many years ago but was ‘coming out’ only now because the rapist was an ‘influential and powerful media personality’. Hitherto fore, strangely the alleged rapist was never specifically named, even though hints and innuendos were dropped from time to time that could be taken as suggesting that it was the CEO of Dawn, Hameed Haroon. “But since I had not been specifically named in the tweets, I was advised, that even though I had a fair idea of who was prompting Jami Raza, I should exercise restraint until I was specifically named. On 28th December, Jami Raza specifically named me and it has therefore become necessary to respond”, Haroon says.

    Haroon goes on to say how he met Jami when Jami was a freelance photographer and how he worked with him on a photo essay in 2003-04. Haroon denies ever being alone with Jami, saying that he did go to Jami’s house to, “condole on his father’s death but was unable to personally meet him….This was been the sum of my interaction with Jami”.

    Haroon adds in his statement that, “The story is simply untrue and intentionally fabricated at the instance of those who wish to silence me and through me, to compel the newspaper that I represent to support their repressive narrative,” and that he will be “initiating legal action to clear my name and reputation.”

    Jami has responded to Haroon’s statement, saying that Dawn did not give him a space to voice his side of the story, Dawn should not be detracting from the issue at hand and that this is all about #MeToo.

    https://twitter.com/azadjami1/status/1211682042490085376

    Jami is a prominent Pakistani filmmaker who directed Moor, Pakistan’s submission for the Oscars in 2015 and popular movie 021. He has also been a vocal supporter of the #MeToo movement and after he revealed what happened to him, met with a lot of support from many people including singer Meesha Shafi and actor Osman Khalid Butt.

    Dawn has posted that they assure their readers that an inquiry will be made into the allegations.