A lady was raped within the F-9 park within the very coronary heart of Islamabad and because the particulars of the incident emerge, the extra livid the general public feels. Apart from the plain risk to girls’s security, it’s the sufferer blaming and the misogynistic mentality of the rapist that angered individuals. Experiences that the suspect advised the sufferer she shouldn’t be out at night time sparked outrage and debate on the policing of girls and the promotion of rape tradition.
The lady was raped at gunpoint on Thursday night time and a case was filed on the Margalla police station. The Islamabad police issued on Sunday a sketch of one of many suspects concerned within the rape. Within the FIR, the lady mentioned she had gone to the park at about 8pm along with her male colleague when “two men stopped [us] at gunpoint and took them towards a jungle”. After she was raped by two males, one of many rapists requested the lady what she does for a dwelling and advised her to “not come to the park at this time”, the FIR mentioned.
Information of the assault unfold like wildfire on social media. Individuals had been appalled that even in such a case, individuals discovered methods to pin the blame on the sufferer.
We are able to’t consider we have to humanise girls within the eyes of the general public.
The concept that girls solely belong at residence has not solely made public areas inaccessible for 50 per cent of the inhabitants but additionally one way or the other made twisted males suppose it’s okay to sexually assault girls who don’t ‘comply’.
This simply proves that girls are usually not secure but the problem continues to be not being taken severely.
Residents who frequent the park are feeling very uncomfortable. One netizen raised a degree — why is it that consensual affection is straight away caught by the police however assault appears to slide by their discover?
Even the rapist blamed the sufferer instantly after raping her.
Being a lady in Pakistan means the trauma solely piles on.
We hope girls’s security is taken extra severely on this nation so girls don’t must really feel like they’ve to depart to easily exist with out being harmed.
