Sexual harassment and violence against women is common in Pakistan, where nearly 1,000 women are killed each year in so-called 'honor killings' for allegedly violating conservative norms on love and marriage. Judge Arshad Hussain Bhutta (pictured arriving at the district jail) also sentenced the men to 14 years imprisonment, time that must be served before any executions can take place Judge Arshad Hussain Bhutta also sentenced the men to 14 years imprisonment, time that must be served before any executions can take place. Prosecutor Hafiz Asghar said the verdict in the case against Malhi and his accomplice Ali was issued inside the prison where they are being held in Lahore.
In March, two men were sentenced to death by a Pakistani court for the gang rape. Protests erupted after the lead investigator Umar Sheikh suggested the woman was to blame for the attack, saying she should have travelled on a busier road during the day and checked her petrol before setting out. She called for assistance but was dragged from the vehicle and raped by the two men, Abid Malhi and Shafqat Ali. The woman's car had ran out of petrol while she was out with her two children. Two attackers pulled a French woman out of her car which had broken down at night on a deserted highway near the city, in eastern Punjab province, and gang-raped her as her terrified children watched. It follows outcry and protests across the country following the gang-rape of a woman outside the city of Lahore in September last year which forced the government to promise action. In December last year, President Arif Alvi signed the legislation after Prime Minister Imran Kahn and his cabinet approved it.īut the vote on Wednesday in the National Assembly permanently passed the measure into law. Those found guilty of gang rape will be sentenced to death or imprisoned for life, and repeat offenders could be subjected to chemical castration. The bill also states that the government must establish special fast track courts nation wide to hear rape cases and they will have to reach a verdict within four months.Īnti-rape crisis cells in public hospitals will also be created where victims are able to register their assault and receive a medical examination within hours of the crime.
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The legislation forms a series of measures including the creation of a national sex offenders register and the protection of victims' identities. Pictured: people protest after the gang rape of a woman in Lahore in September 2020 Pakistan was chosen as the name of the country when it became independent in 1947.Pakistan has brought in new laws that will see some rapists chemically castrated following public outcry against sexual violence in the country. In Persian and Urdu, the sound of the name Pākstan also suggests an interpretation like "Land of the Pure," as if the name were derived from the Persian word pāk, "pure." Rahmat Ali's name for the region caught on quickly, and its spelling was soon changed to Pakistan, probably in order to break up the difficult consonant cluster kst and bring the word in line with other geographical names like Afghanistan and Baluchistan. Pakstan first appears in a pamphlet that Rahmat Ali published in 1933 "on behalf of the thirty million Muslims of PAKSTAN, who live in the five Northern Units of India, viz.: Punjab, North-West Frontier Province (Afghan Province), Kashmir, Sind, and Baluchistan." The new name was meant to incorporate letters from names of all these areas, with the P representing Punjab, the A representing the Afghans ( Afghān being a Persian word meaning "Pashtun"), and so forth. The name Pakistan contains the same suffix and was coined-originally in the form Pakstan-by Choudhary Rahmat Ali (1897-1951), a Muslim Indian Nationalist who devoted himself to the creation of separate countries for Muslims in South Asia in anticipation of the end of British rule there. The suffix is derived from the Iranian root *stā-, "to stand, stay," and means "place (where one stays), home, country." It can be added to the names of peoples to form the names of the countries where they live. Word History: The names of many Central and South Asian states, such as Afghanistan, Pakistan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan, end with the element -stan, a suffix of Iranian origin.
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