News from a Karachi court should have lowered every human being’s head in shame and disgust. On March 15, 2008, an 18-year-old girl visited Karachi along with her family; they went to Pakistan’s founder Quaid-e-Azam Mohammed Ali Jinnah’s mausoleum to pay their respects. During a power breakdown in the mausoleum’s premises, she was allegedly abducted by the security staff and their cronies who took her to a room within the premises where she was subjected to gang rape. Rangers found her unconscious just outside the mausoleum boundary on March 17. One of the accused rapists was arrested after the identification parade wherein the victim identified him while the other two were also arrested per DNA reports.
April 06, 2013: five years after this shameful incident in Pakistan’ history, an Additional District Judge acquitted the three men for want of ‘evidence’. The learned judge rejected the DNA reports citing these as not a piece of evidence per Hudood laws.
Is this the same country for which two million people lost their lives in 1947?
MASOOD KHAN
Jubail, Saudi Arabia