In the Islamic State of Pakistan, a fourteen-year-old girl shot and killed her own father for raping her over the last three months. The incident took place in Lahore’s Gujjarpura neighborhood where the minor revealed to the authorities how her own biological father had been sexually abusing her for the previous three to four months.
She told the police that she was fed up after being regularly raped by her father and thus made up her mind to kill him, reports the Express Tribune.
According to the statement given by the victim to the police, “She was going through hell and decided to kill her rapist father and hence shot him dead using his gun.” As per the reports, the rape victim shot her father in the head while he was sleeping.
However, the victim’s family members which include her mother and brother said they did not know that her father was raping her. In fact, the mother had gone to lengths not to involve the police in this matter. But the loud gunshot was heard by neighbors and the police were called.
As per a report by War Against Rape (WAR) WAR, over 82% of rapists in Pakistan are family members including fathers, brothers, grandfathers, and uncles of the victims. In Pakistan, at least 11 cases of rape are reported everyday, with over 22,000 reports filed 2015–2020; however, at the end of that period in 2020, only 4,000 of those cases had moved to court.
Pakistan is also notorious for honor killing and in cases where a girl gets pregnant after being raped by a blood relative, it is most often not reported and instead, the family would take the victim to a gynecologist for an abortion to terminate the pregnancy. Since Pakistan is a very patriarchal society women are financially dependent on men, so they ensure the rape is hidden from authorities.
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