Tag: Bohat Ho Gaya
Broken Hearts and Broken Hopes
February 24th, 2021; By Baseer Qalandar; NOWSHEHRA; Like Kasur’s Zainab, Khuzdar’s Amir Hamza, and Karachi’s Mawra, 8-yr-old Minahil from Nowshera too was raped and murdered. She is just one name out of the thousands of little children who have met gruesome deaths by their abusers.
Freed finally, but a little too late
February 17th,2021; By Ahmed Saeed & Shahrazad Agha; FAISALABAD; Farah Shaheen was returned to her parents after 6 months of repeated rape by abductors. But even as she returns, can this undo the fact that she was raped under the guise of religion?
The rocky road to slow justice
February 16th, 2021; By Sher-e-Azam & Shehrezad Agha; KARACHI; Maryam a woman with a #disability, was gang-raped by 2 men 4 months ago. "The case is in court, but we don’t even have enough money for a lawyer. We don’t have much hope,” she explains.
For rape survivors, justice is expensive and nonexistent
February 15th, 2021; By Ahmed Saeed & Shahrazad Agha; FAISALABAD; Shazia*, 16 years & Sania*, just 12 years old, were both abducted & repeatedly raped but despite fighting hard for justice early on, the family has now become disillusioned.
‘His last words will always haunt me’
February 12th, 2021; By Shahrazad Agha & Asim Ahmad Khan; QUETTA“They took him in a small room, raped & burnt him. He told me, Mummy, I was raped and burnt. The next day he died. all we want now is justice," says mother of 6-year-old Ameer Hamza.
