Rape culture is not a phenomenon unique to Pakistan. It’s been a crime which has affected women across the globe. Yet, whenever I hear of a rape case surfacing in Pakistan — it literally hits home. For females as young as five years old to be raped and left to die is horrifying for anyone to hear let alone for families to endure.
A woman in Pakistan was gang-raped in front of her two kids. This fact is enough to send people to riot for justice. Yet, Pakistanis want to know what the woman was doing, where she was, why she was not accompanied by a male, to begin with. Why does any of this matter? Are we still as a society going to point a blaming finger on women? Is human morality truly dead?
In September of this year, a five-year-old girl was raped and murdered in Karachi, Pakistan after going to the local shop to buy biscuits. Her rape and murder came just months after Pakistan’s Parliament passed a new law on child abuse.
Last month, videos of a Muslim cleric raping a child while the child recited Quran surfaced. In a country where individuals are murdered for speaking against religious sects and accused of blasphemy — it boggles my mind as to why this cleric is still alive.
In the first 60 days of 2020, there were as many as 73 cases of rape in Lahore. I share these…
