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Aafia Siddiqui (also spelled Afiya; [ 8] Urdu: عافیہ صدیقی; born 2 March 1972) is a Pakistani national who is serving an 86-year sentence at the Federal Medical Center, Carswell in Fort Worth, Texas, United States, for attempted murder and other felonies. [ 6][ 9] Siddiqui was born in Pakistan to a Sunni Muslim family. [ 1]
2021 Minar-e-Pakistan mass sexual assault. On 14 August 2021, Ayesha Akram, a social media celebrity, was sexually assaulted by a crowd at Minar-e-Pakistan, Lahore, Pakistan. [1] [2] [3] In a video recording of the incident that went viral days later, the crowd was seen picking up the woman, throwing her up in the air between them, tearing off ...
— Malala Yousafzai, 24 January 2009 BBC blog entry In February 2009, girls' schools were still closed. In solidarity, private schools for boys had decided not to open until 9 February, and notices appeared saying so. On 7 February, Yousafzai and her brother returned to their hometown of Mingora, where the streets were deserted, and there was an "eerie silence". She wrote in her blog: "We ...
Murder of Zainab Ansari. Zainab Amin Ansari ( Urdu: زینب امین انصاری; c. 2010 – January 2018) was a seven-year-old Pakistani girl who was abducted in her hometown of Kasur, Punjab while she was on her way to Quran recitation classes on 4 January 2018. Her body was found discarded five days later within a garbage disposal site ...
Blasphemy in Pakistan. The Pakistan Penal Code outlaws blasphemy ( Urdu: قانون ناموس رسالت) against any recognized religion, with punishments ranging from a fine to the death penalty. According to various human rights organizations, Pakistan's blasphemy laws have been used to persecute religious minorities and settle personal ...
Pakistani sources claim the number is much lower, though they have not denied that rape incidents occurred. [142] Brownmiller writes: [143] Khadiga, thirteen years old, was interviewed by a photojournalist in Dacca. She was walking to school with four other girls when they were kidnapped by a gang of Pakistani soldiers.
Rimsha Masih ( Urdu: رمشا مسیح — some early reports used the first name "Rifta" or "Riftah") is a Pakistani girl [1] from Islamabad, [2] who was arrested by the Pakistani police on blasphemy charges in August 2012 when she was 14 years old. [3] The alleged charges included desecrating pages of the Quran (or a book containing verses ...
The Kasur child sexual abuse scandal is a series of child sexual abuses that occurred in Hussain Khanwala village in Kasur District, Punjab, Pakistan from 2006 to 2014, culminating in a major political scandal in 2015. After the discovery of hundreds of video clips showing children performing forced sex acts, various Pakistani media ...