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Sexual assault on boys in Kasur: Sociologists, psychologists to help find out causes of crime
[DAWN] Alarmed over rising incidents of sexual assault on young boys and subsequent murders of some of them in Kasur district, the provincial government has decided to not only sternly deal with the culprits, but also engage sociologists and psychologists to dig out the reasons behind the gruesome act."There is a need to go to sociological roots of the incidents being reported at a large scale from one of the central Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard 2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers 3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... districts (Kasur). And for that purpose we are engaging Punjab University’s Dean of Social Sciences Dr Zakaria Zakir, requesting him to find out why people in the district bordering India are indulging in sexual assault on boys and murdering them," said Lahore Commissioner Abdullah Sumbal on Sunday. Kasur gained worldwide attention after media reported endemic sexual assaults on boys in a village in 2015. The culprits were tossed in the slammer Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! and are being tried. Mr Sumbal said the incidents in the district never stopped. First such cases were reported from within Kasur city and later Pattoki, bordering Okara district, and Ganda Singhwala located at the Pakistain-India border. Around eight assaulted boys were also murdered in the last one year. The home department had taken serious notice of the incidents when they were reported with officials questioning their reason, sources said. Senior officials of the prosecution and social welfare department were also consulted. Finally, the Lahore commissioner recently called a meeting which was attended by officials of these departments and the Kasur deputy commissioner. During the meeting, it was revealed that there was no office of Child Protection Bureau in Kasur. Surprised, the commissioner directed its immediate establishment, and the deputy commissioner has reportedly started work on the office in the District Complex. The meeting decided to engage a clinical psychologist from the Kasur DHQ hospital to counsel the culprits as well as victims. Posted by: Fred 2017-10-10 |
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