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| Outcry over Rape of 5-Year-Old Girl in Pakistan |
| 2013-09-16 |
| [An Nahar] Rights campaigners staged protest rallies across Pakistain on Sunday against the rape of a five-years old girl in the eastern city of Lahore whose condition is now relatively stable. Police still have no clue who carried out the attack despite detaining several suspects and releasing most of them after questioning, a law enforcement official said. The five-year old girl was kidnapped on Thursday and brutally raped in the eastern city of Lahore. Police said the girl was found outside a hospital at around 8pm (1500 GMT) on Friday, a day after she went missing from a low-income neighborhood in the city. "Her condition is relatively stable but still she is in the Intensive Care Unit," doctor Farzand Ali, medical superintendent in the Services hospital told Agence La Belle France Presse. Senior police officer Zulfiqar Hameed said Sherlocks had questioned several suspects but have yet to formally locked away Book 'im, Mahmoud! anyone. "We are investigating and we hope steady progress [is being made] but no one has yet been identified nor anyone formally arrested," Hameed told AFP. Doctors earlier said the child was raped several times. Rights campaigners and workers from NGOs on Saturday and Sunday staged protest rallies across Pakistain and demanded the arrest of the culprits, witnesses said. Widespread outrage dominated social media while Pakistain private TV channels prominently broadcast reports on the girl and her ordeal. Rape is notoriously difficult to prosecute in Pakistain, where women are often treated as second-class citizens. In April 2011, the Supreme Court upheld the acquittal of five men sentenced to death in Pakistain's most famous rape case, that of Mukhtar Mai. Mai was gang raped in 2002 on the orders of a village council as punishment, after her brother, who was aged just 12 at the time, was accused of having illicit relations with a woman from a rival clan. A local court had sentenced six men to death, but a higher court acquitted five of them in March 2005, and commuted the sentence for the main accused, Abdul Khaliq, to life imprisonment. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #8 Ah, the type of girl who would pull her sleeves up to make mud pies. Trampy indeed. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2013-09-16 20:06 |
| #7 I blame her parents for allowing her to wear an off-black bag. Trampy |
| Posted by: Frank G 2013-09-16 19:49 |
| #6 If she wasn't chewing on her dolly, she may have looked over her age. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2013-09-16 19:38 |
| #5 5 is too young. The prophet married 6yo girls only. On the other hand maybe she looked like 6? |
| Posted by: European Conservative 2013-09-16 17:42 |
| #4 She obviously led him on. /do I really need to? |
| Posted by: Barbara 2013-09-16 17:33 |
| #3 Once it comes out that it was mullah-ordered, the outrage will fade away. |
| Posted by: Rob Crawford 2013-09-16 17:01 |
| #2 This seems like a healthy reaction. Bit stunning, actually. |
| Posted by: Dopey Sinatra 2013-09-16 16:38 |
| #1 sick people equals sick country |
| Posted by: Paul D 2013-09-16 07:21 |