The police and local area Muslims are pressurizing Ilyas Masih, the father of the girls to accept a compromise and settle the matter outside of the judicial system.
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| MPA Rai Haider Ali Khan (R) is seen here with Mr Nawaz Shareef (L-f), Prime Minister of Pakistan. (File photo) |
Source/Credit: Agencies, AHRC, BPCA
By Staff Report | February 15, 2015
According to a report by British Pakistani Christian Association, two minor Christian girls from Jaranwala, Punjab, Farzana aged 14 and Sehrish aged 16 were gang raped by three Muslim men.
Now, a state lawmaker from the Punjab Assembly is reportedly pressuring the Christian family to abandon their criminal complaint against several suspects who gang-raped the two underage Christian girls.
Member of Provencal Assembly, Rai Haider Ali Khan, who represents PP-54 (Faisalabad-IV) district, has exerted substantial pressured and offered money for a reconciliation settlement on behalf of the accused rapists.
According to the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab website Rai Haider Ali Khan of Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) group, holds the position of Special Assistant to Chief Minister Shehbaz Sharif for Literacy & Non-formal Basic Education in the Punjab.
The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has reported that the District Hospital of Jaranwala has now refused to conduct appropriate testing for evidence of rape of the two victims under political and police pressure.
According to the criminal complaint details, on December 3, 2014, three men abducted the Christian girls from outside their home and held them all night subjecting them to repeated rape and torture while their father, Ilyas Masih, searched for them in vain until the distraught girls returned home in the morning.
A police report was registered at the Lundya Wala Police Station and one of the rapists Sajad was arrested while two of the rapists, Azeem and Shahbaz managed to run away.
Lately however, according to the reports, Ilyas Masih has received death threats from Azeem to withdraw the rape charges.
The police, local area Muslims, and the lawmaker, Rai Haider, are pressurizing Ilyas Masih to accept a compromise and settle the matter outside of the judicial system.
Women and minorities are the most marginalized faction of the Pakistani society; the Muslim majority is increasingly being intolerant towards people professing religion other than Islam.
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