City once known for Sufi shrines is now known as Pakistan's 'rape capital'

January 24, 2018 13:44

'In the weeks since Ameen's 6-year-old daughter, Zainab, was found dead in a trash dump, her body showing signs of rape, the family has become Pakistan's portrait of grief. Parents from across the country have traveled to the eastern city of Kasur and sat in the family's two-story house, trying to offer comfort but also to voice their anxieties about what many describe as an epidemic of child sexual abuse in Pakistan,' reports Kiran Nazish in latimes.com.

'A total of 12 children have been raped over the last year in this district of 3.4 million people, all the incidents occurring within a 1.5-mile radius, in neighborhoods with streets so narrow that cars cannot fit, the reporter says, here.

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