“I am here in solidarity with Zainab’s family,” Malik told Los Angeles Times. In Pakistan, rape victims have long been silenced by cultural taboos, and culprits often go free. After Zainab’s killing, three days of riots broke out in Kasur in which police opened fire on demonstrators, killing three people. Two months before Zainab’s killing, a girl named Laiba was attacked and dumped in the trash in Kasur. Sajid Ali, a spokesman for the district police, acknowledged that the police in the past had “mistakenly caught the wrong culprits” in the child rape cases.

Source: Pakistan Today January 24, 2018 08:03 UTC