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KARACHI: A one-and-a-half-year-old girl was raped before being strangled to death in Karachi, her autopsy report revealed on Tuesday.
The minor's body was recovered from Nazimabad's Jalalabad area within the remits of the Rizviya Police Station, however, it is not yet clear where the rape and murder took place.
Speaking to Dawn, Additional Police Surgeon Dr Rubina Hasan, who conducted the minor's autopsy, said she was subjected to sodomy.
Liaquatabad Superintendent of Police (SP) Tahir Noorani said the family members of the victim claim that her body was found in a street outside her home. The police later recovered the body from her residence.
Further investigation into the matter is under way, with authorities on the hunt to nab the perpetrator.
Last year in November, a six-year-old girl was strangled and dumped near a garbage heap in Quetta after being subjected to rape attempts.
Read more: Six-year-old Hazara girl murdered in Quetta after attempted rape
In November last year, a five-year-old girl was allegedly raped at a high school in Lahore.
Earlier in Sept, a five-year-old girl in Lahore was repeatedly raped for more than a hour and thrown outside the Sir Ganga Ram Hospital.
The incident shocked the nation and was widely condemned.
Despite the passage of several months and numerous breakthroughs, Lahore police has been unable to trace any of the culprits involved in the heinous crime.
Rape is notoriously difficult to prosecute in Pakistan, where women are often treated as second-class citizens.
In April 2011, the Supreme Court upheld the acquittal of five men sentenced to death in Pakistan's most famous rape case, that of Mukhtar Mai.
Mai was gang raped in 2002 on the orders of a village council as punishment, after her brother, who was aged just 12 at the time, was accused of having illicit relations with a woman from a rival clan.
A local court had sentenced six men to death, but a higher court acquitted five of them in March 2005, and commuted the sentence for the main accused, Abdul Khaliq, to life imprisonment.
In neighbouring India, a judge on Friday sentenced to death four men convicted of the fatal gang rape and murder of a student on a New Delhi bus last December, fulfilling the last wish of the 23-year-old victim who later died of her injuries.
The December attack, in which the student was repeatedly raped and assaulted with a metal rod, sparked widespread anger at the treatment of women in India.
Toddler raped, strangled in Karachi - Pakistan - DAWN.COM
The minor's body was recovered from Nazimabad's Jalalabad area within the remits of the Rizviya Police Station, however, it is not yet clear where the rape and murder took place.
Speaking to Dawn, Additional Police Surgeon Dr Rubina Hasan, who conducted the minor's autopsy, said she was subjected to sodomy.
Liaquatabad Superintendent of Police (SP) Tahir Noorani said the family members of the victim claim that her body was found in a street outside her home. The police later recovered the body from her residence.
Further investigation into the matter is under way, with authorities on the hunt to nab the perpetrator.
Last year in November, a six-year-old girl was strangled and dumped near a garbage heap in Quetta after being subjected to rape attempts.
Read more: Six-year-old Hazara girl murdered in Quetta after attempted rape
In November last year, a five-year-old girl was allegedly raped at a high school in Lahore.
Earlier in Sept, a five-year-old girl in Lahore was repeatedly raped for more than a hour and thrown outside the Sir Ganga Ram Hospital.
The incident shocked the nation and was widely condemned.
Despite the passage of several months and numerous breakthroughs, Lahore police has been unable to trace any of the culprits involved in the heinous crime.
Rape is notoriously difficult to prosecute in Pakistan, where women are often treated as second-class citizens.
In April 2011, the Supreme Court upheld the acquittal of five men sentenced to death in Pakistan's most famous rape case, that of Mukhtar Mai.
Mai was gang raped in 2002 on the orders of a village council as punishment, after her brother, who was aged just 12 at the time, was accused of having illicit relations with a woman from a rival clan.
A local court had sentenced six men to death, but a higher court acquitted five of them in March 2005, and commuted the sentence for the main accused, Abdul Khaliq, to life imprisonment.
In neighbouring India, a judge on Friday sentenced to death four men convicted of the fatal gang rape and murder of a student on a New Delhi bus last December, fulfilling the last wish of the 23-year-old victim who later died of her injuries.
The December attack, in which the student was repeatedly raped and assaulted with a metal rod, sparked widespread anger at the treatment of women in India.
Toddler raped, strangled in Karachi - Pakistan - DAWN.COM
