In a horrific incident, a 21-year-old Afghan lady was allegedly gang-raped by 5 males in a refugee camp arrange in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Haripur metropolis, the native media reported on Saturday.
In line with the First Data Report (FIR), the sufferer was on her approach to Camp-16 for work when 5 males forcibly dragged her into close by fields and raped her for 2 hours.
“The FIR additional acknowledged that the perpetrators additionally snatched Rs3,000 in money and a gold nostril pin from the sufferer. She recognized the suspects as Bacha, Nadi, Rozi Khan, Javed, and Naseer. The criticism added that when she tried to withstand, the lads bodily assaulted her, leaving her injured,” Pakistan’s main newspaper, The Categorical Tribune, reported on Saturday.
“The Khalabat police have booked all 5 suspects below Part 375A of the Pakistan Penal Code, which states that when rape is dedicated by two or extra individuals in furtherance of the frequent intention of all, every of such individuals shall be punished with dying or imprisonment for all times,” the report added.
The newspaper detailed that the incident has sparked outrage amongst native residents, whereas the sufferer’s household has demanded exemplary punishment for the culprits.
Curiously, Pakistan has designated Haripur, Rawalpindi, Attock, Islamabad, and Murree as “protected zones” amidst the continuing crackdown on susceptible Afghan refugees who’re being repatriated forcibly.
In line with the UN refugee company, since April, greater than 483,700 Afghans have returned from Pakistan to Afghanistan, together with 145,200 in August alone, with some 55,000 making the journey in simply the ultimate 4 days of the month.
Since April 1, some 57,300 people have been arrested and detained, together with PoR cardholders. In August alone, some 9,000 arrests had been recorded, in comparison with some 3,400 in your entire month of July.
A UN doc detailed that, as of September 4, at the very least 531,700 Afghans have returned from Pakistan in 2025.