Posted on 09/16/2008 10:03:50 AM PDT by Nachum
KARACHI: On average, 100 women are raped every 24 hours in Karachi city alone, and a majority of them are working women, said Additional Police Surgeon (APS) Dr Zulfiqar Siyal.
A majority of them are working class women or those working as domestic help and are mostly up to 20 years old, he said.
“I am saying with full authority that such a large number of rape cases happen in the city,” he told Daily Times on the sidelines of a discussion on sexual violence organised by the Aurat Foundation on Monday. “But very few rape survivors have the courage to come forward in search of justice.”
They do not come forward because of the lengthy medical process and delayed justice system in Pakistan. Only 0.5 percent of cases are reported and the majority (99.5 percent) of survivors prefers to stay silent.
Part of the problem is that there are 11 medico-legal sections in three major public sector hospitals but there are only six women medico-legal officers (WMLOs) for the 18 million population of Karachi.
“I am sure that there are more than 100 rape cases every day ... but you can gauge how many are reported from the official data which says that during the last eight months (between January to August 2008) a total of 197 cases were reported,” Dr Siyal said.
The WMLOs also face a lot of problems, he said.
Karachi is also short on hospitals where rape survivors can go through the entire medical examination. “It isn’t just medical facilities but you won’t find a single women police officer (WPO) in any of the total 101 police stations of the city,” he said.
Provincial minister Tauqeer Fatima Bhutto said though previous governments had passed legislation they were not implemented. amar guriro
Say it with me people: “Islam is a religion of peace.”
Karachi? ...is that anywhere near Detroit?
And they know this ... how? If women are not reporting rapes to the authorities, then the other possible sources of information include the rapists ("In the past 24 hours, have you raped a domestic employee?") and the sociologists' favorite, the Wild Guess.
It’s called Karachi itch.
Rapes unreported? Gee, I wonder why?
Oh, that’s right...HONOR KILLINGS. Save the family honor, kill the soiled daughter.
Sounds more like Hibachi
This is what can happen in a society where the gospel has been repressed and people are killed for preaching the truth. Rapes happen in our society, yes, a society that is fast falling from the truth, but in a world where Christ has never entered, evil truly runs rampant.
In an ideal world, the muslims and communists would wipe each other out.
Is Bill opening the ice concession?
Pakistan -— again...
When Pakistan makes the news, you can be certain that it is shocking, disgusting, barbaric, criminal, terrorist biased, threatening or all the above..
Pakistan is competing for 1st place, in the contest of which nation most deserves total “ethnic cleansing”......
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