Can we learn anything from India? I dont remember even a single person punished in Pakistan for rape. More than 2000 women are raped in Pakistani Punjab alone.
Five-year-old raped in Lahore by unidentified men - DAWN.COM
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The Delhi gang rape case took the anti Rape activism and sexual abuse awareness campaign in India, to a whole new next level. I hate to really say this but India almost needed a gruesome tragedy to finally take the rape epidemic seriously and start doing something about it. The pressure groups in Pakistan, the media and women's organisations too really need to come forward and actively start campaigning against this heinous crime which is increasingly getting prevalent yet gets unnoticed.
Indian courts have set an example by giving death sentences, however how the rape cases are dealt with at local levels and on everyday basis is yet to be seen. They certainly have a log way to go but I'm somehow positive that things will improve if the pressure groups remain committed.
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I dont know what would take to activate Pakistan’s civil society.
Pakistan has a rape problem too - Salon.com
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Days after the Delhi gang-rape victim died, a 9-year-old girl in Pakistan was allegedly abducted from her home and raped by three men.
The captors are said to have beat her before dropping her bleeding body in front of her house. One of the kidnappers is then reported to have threatened her mother, saying they would kill her if she contacted the police.
She did anyway.
The mother then took her daughter, a second-grader, to a nearby hospital where she was treated for a loss of blood and internal injuries. Police have arrested six suspects and a court case is pending.
Few Pakistani media outlets carried this story and no demonstrations have been held in support of the young victim.
Such a muted response is in stark contrast to the protests that are raging in India, demanding justice for the 23-year-old medical student who is alleged to have been raped and brutalized by six men on a moving bus in Delhi.
Even if rape in Pakistan received the same kind of attention, however, finding justice for crimes of sexual violence can be an exceedingly arduous task in Pakistan.
“I had even more people with me, I felt like the whole world was with me,” said Mukthar Mai, whose gang-rape unleashed an outcry in Pakistan in 2002. “But still I did not receive justice.”
Thirteen of the fourteen men charged with raping Mai were acquitted in a case that was appealed all the way to the Supreme Court in 2011. Many in Pakistan now point to this her trial as a missed opportunity for reform in the country.
Mai was gang-raped by members of a rival clan on the orders of a jirga, or village council, for an offense that her teenaged brother had allegedly committed.
The severe social stigma associated with rape in Pakistan has pressured many women to commit suicide after suffering such crimes, and Mai admits that she tried repeatedly to end her own life.
It was only when the national media began to report the story — framing her as a victim — that she felt renewed strength to take her case to court.
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If only our media just bloody stop reporting how and why Karachi is shut down yet again and talk about the real issues. There's a general trend in Pakistani media to talk politics than issues, well its a same case in India too but journalism is a pretty big field and lot more versatile than it is in Pakistan.
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I’m from India, but I’m still cautiously optimistic about the whole thing. The death penalty will hopefully serve as a deterrent to others. However this case got (relatively) swift justice because of the huge public outcry and demonstrations. The root cause of the prevalence of rape in India is far from being eradicated. It is going to take huge amounts of public education, police training (to register rape cases promptly and handle victims with sensitivity), and a sense of urgency in judicial proceedings to make a permanent change.
One of the positives to come out of this is that rape/sexual harrassment is being talked about openly, and the common man is genuinely outraged about it. To give you an example, in my own family rape/sexual crimes were hardly ever mentioned or discussed in public. It was a thing which everyone knew was happening in society, but it was never a dinner conversation topic. The media coverage and just the brutality of this crime created so much outrage, that even my super conservative relatives are openly condemning and talking about this.
As a side note, Farhan Akhtar has launched the MARD (men against rape and discrimination) campaign to create social awareness about rape. He has roped in celebrities to record the MARD poem in different Indian languages - the Marathi one is recited by Sachin Tendulkar. He is campaigning hard to include this poem in school textbooks. I absolutely agree that our kids need to learn to respect women as equals before they learn history and geography!
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Dude im from India as well 
Thanks for the awesome links Much appreciated. i hope the campaign goes well.and that it is a deterrent or others. And each and every rape is treated similarly. This case was more than just rape, it was brutal murder. When i read about what they did it seriously brought tears to my eyes. She was so brave even when she was lying in hospital for treatment she was trying to write the names of the people who did this to her and tell her story. The boy who was with her (i think her fiancee) was also brave to not hide this and be proud of her for standing up. The way it happened was so shocking. I don’t even think i can mention the details.
No woman is responsible for her rape no matter where she is and what she is wearing.
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Thanks for posting this Ali. I am cautiously optimistic it will change things first but first i'd like to see the death penalty take place swiftly rather than be drawn out by the appeals process. Initially all the families were ashamed of the rapists and wanting them to get hung. Now they have found some lawyers to defend them they are back tracking. It sickens me that the juvenile (who is 17) only got a few months despite being one of the most gruesome of the lot. If you are old enough to rape and know it is wrong you are old enough to get punished for it. This may sound bad but if he does not get justice i hope some vigilantes make his life horrible and life itself is a punishment for him.
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Pakistan can't even give justice to their own citizens and kids, the kinds of atrocities happening daily, no wonder there is a widespread moral sickness in society.
I don't get it. You turn on the TV and it's the muslim version of Christian TV channel - with fundraising, and bestowing expensive gifts on audiences in the name of Islam, with one maulvi after another explaining the Quran and various hadeeth's.
I think only housewives are learning Islam, looks like no one else is.
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We keep on harping about Islam where as even kids are not safe in Pakistan. Other countries would try to curb these kind of things, in Pakistan its near to impossible.