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Protests held across Pakistan after 7-year-old girl's rape and murder

By Mubasher Bukhari

 

Members of Civil Society light candles and earthen lamps to condemn the rape and murder of 7-year-old girl Zainab Ansari in Kasur, during a candlelight vigil in Islamabad, Pakistan January 11, 2018. REUTERS/Faisal Mahmood

 

LAHORE, Pakistan (Reuters) - Protests broke out across Pakistan on Thursday after the rape and murder of a 7-year-old girl in a district south of Lahore, due to public anger at what is seen as the authorities' failure to investigate such cases.

 

It is the 12th such murder in the town of Kasur in a year, and has raised concern that a serial killer may be on the loose.

 

Two people were killed on Wednesday when police fired at angry protesters in Kasur, and a local resident said schools, offices, and markets remained shut in the town on Thursday.

 

Demonstrations were held in all cities between Faisalabad in the northeast down to Pakistan's southern metropolis of Karachi.

 

In Lahore, the provincial capital of the state where Kasur is located, protesters blocked a major road connecting the two, causing traffic between them to be suspended.

 

Police recovered the body of Zainab Ansari from a garbage dumpster in Kasur on Tuesday, four days after she was reported missing.

 

The chief minister of Punjab province, Shahbaz Sharif visited Ansari's parents to assure them that the perpetrators would be apprehended soon, a provincial government spokesman said.

 

"(Sharif) has announced Rs 10 million ($90,000) for anyone giving information about the kidnapper," Punjab government spokesman Malik Muhammad Ahmad Khan told Reuters. He said it could not be ruled out that the murders involved a serial killer.

 

A police official speaking on condition on anonymity said two of Ansari's relatives had been interrogated and 26 locals are currently in custody and being questioned. He added that police are waiting for forensic evidence to be collected and analysed.

 

Ansari's family doubts justice will be done.

 

"We don't have any expectations from police, as we gave proof to police including the CCTV footage, but they could do nothing," her uncle Hafiz Muhammad Adnan told Reuters.

 

Adnan said the kidnapper waited to dump the body after search parties took a break after four days of looking.

 

"It appears as if the kidnapper is a local who developed familiarity with Zainab to take her along, probably telling her that he would take her to her parents," he said.

 

A number of police officials have been transferred out of the region for failing to investigate complaints of missing children since 2015, when authorities uncovered what they said was a paedophile ring linked to a prominent local family.

 

At least two people have been convicted in connection with that case, in which authorities say hundreds of children in the district were abused.

 

($1 = 110.5000 Pakistani rupees)

 

(Writing by Saad Sayeed; Editing by Hugh Lawson)

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2018-01-12

[hhinhh]

I hope someone gets 10 million soon!

[bert bloggs]

Pakistan is the armpit of the world ,nothing will change .

[UnkleMoooose]

31 minutes ago, bert bloggs said:

Pakistan is the armpit of the world ,nothing will change .

It is an armpit of the world. As somebody said yesterday, any country ending in "stan' is going to be a toilet. Rape is the national sport in India and Pakistan, and the savages there think they're doing nothing wrong. Remember that poor girl on the bus a couple of years ago, they shoved an iron bar inside her, and the driver said she deserved it as she was dressed inappropriately.

[mlmcleod]

In a country, where child brides abound there is no concern if another female is raped, tortured and murdered.  Women have no status or real power in Pakistan.  A good sheep or cow has more value than a woman in Pakistan so unless sheep or cattle are being killed there is little concern from the government!

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[phantomfiddler]

In a country that has such an appalling record for abuse of women it wouldn,t surprise me if many of the protesters were rioting because they weren,t the ones who had the chance to commit this awful crime !

[i claudius]

I had to spend some time there years ago .armpit of the world? Dont be polite it is the ar- e hole of the world .on leaving our hotel women were advised to always be accompanied by a man and about 6 of us were walking in a group a guy followed us offering us a girl of about that age to have sex with
As she walked beside him .and so many of these " people" have been allowed into the UK .

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[Moti24]

9 hours ago, mlmcleod said:

A good sheep or cow has more value than a woman in Pakistan so unless sheep or cattle are being killed there is little concern from the government!

Similar to Thailand, then; where soi dogs are treated as gods and the people mere mortals.

[Thongkorn]

India where they worship  the Cow, and treat women like animals , the same with most counties that end in stan.

[Scott]

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