The Punjab Home Department has asked the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) to suspend internet services in specific areas of Lahore.
As per the home department’s letter to the PTA, the instruction has been given in response to a protest oragnised by the banned Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP).
The areas where internet services are being suspended are Samanabad, Sheerakot, Nawankot, Gulshan-e-Ravi, Sabzazar and Iqbal Town.
The Lahore Police has arrested a man who allegedly gang-raped a girl with his two accomplices. The two reportedly became friends at a popular video-sharing app, TikTok.
According to reports, the victim girl filed a complaint at Millat Park police station in Lahore in which she accused three men of gang-raping her.
In her complaint, the girl stated that she became friends with a boy, Shiraz, through the TikTok app 20 days ago. Shiraz then called her to come to the Samanabad area on June 13. When she reached there, Shiraz asked her to sit in his car. Two men were already sitting in the vehicle.
The girl said that she was gang-raped by all three men on gunpoint inside the car.