Pakistan: Belgian woman found abandoned
on road with hands tied behind her back,
says she was raped for five days
She is a Western woman, so she may get justice. If she had been a Pakistani Muslim woman, she would have had to produce four male Muslim witnesses attesting to the rape, or she would be imprisoned. This is based on the Qur’an:
“And those who accuse honorable women but do not bring four witnesses, lash them eighty times and never accept their testimony, they indeed are evildoers…” (Qur’an 24:4)
“Why didn’t they produce four witnesses? Since they do not produce witnesses, they indeed are liars in the sight of Allah.” (Qur’an 24:13)
The four witnesses requirement arises, at least according to Islamic tradition, from the incident in which Aisha was accused of adultery and was about to be stoned to death, until Muhammad received these revelations requiring four witnesses.
Pakistan: Belgian woman allegedly raped for 5 days,
found abandoned on road
Hindustan Times, August 15, 2024:
A 28-year-old Belgian woman was found with her hands tied on the streets of Islamabad on August 14, Pakistan’s 78th Independence Day. Pakistan media reported, citing the police, the woman alleged that she was raped for five days, leading to the arrest of a man in connection with the crime.
Samaa TV reported that the woman was found abandoned on the street, her hands bound behind her back. Nearby residents alerted the police, who responded promptly and rescued her.
The woman told the authorities that multiple men had assaulted her over five days. Preliminary investigations corroborated her account. Based on her statement, the police apprehended a suspect named Tameezuddin.
Following the filing of the case, the woman was taken to a hospital for a physical examination to evaluate her injuries.
One person arrested
Pakistan Today reported that the man was apprehended at his home by Aabpara police officers. Tamizuddin, during his interrogation, contended that the woman was mentally unstable and lacked personal identification and travel documents at the time of the incident….
So, did that give him the right to rape her and invite his friends to do the same? Islamic logic!
Dawn reported that police officials told the outlet that they received information about a woman, who had been abandoned on the roadside in Sector G-6/1-3. When a police team reached the spot, they were faced with a young woman in her mid-20s.
She introduced herself as a Belgian citizen and told police she arrived in Islamabad around six months ago. She claimed that she had been living with a man and alleged that he had repeatedly raped her….
She does sound a little messed up, but that shouldn't make her susceptible for gang rape and kidnapping. She needs help, not abuse.
UNESCO says 1.4 million girls banned from school since Taliban retook power
UNESCO says that three years of Taliban rule has barred 1.4 million girls from accessing secondary education, wiping out "two decades of steady progress for education" in Afghanistan, while an "increasingly massive drop-out rate" at the primary school level threatens a "rise in child labour and early marriage" in the country.
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At least 1.4 million girls in Afghanistan have been denied access to secondary education since the Taliban returned to power in 2021, with the future of an entire generation now "in jeopardy", the United Nations' cultural agency said Thursday.
Access to primary education has also fallen sharply, with 1.1 million fewer girls and boys attending school, UNESCO said in a statement as the Taliban authorities marked three years since retaking Afghanistan on August 15, 2021.
"UNESCO is alarmed by the harmful consequences of this increasingly massive drop-out rate, which could lead to a rise in child labour and early marriage," the agency said.
"In just three years, the de facto authorities have almost wiped out two decades of steady progress for education in Afghanistan, and the future of an entire generation is now in jeopardy."
There are now nearly 2.5 million girls deprived of their right to education, representing 80 percent of Afghan school-age girls, the UN agency said.
The Taliban administration, which is not recognised by any other country, has imposed restrictions on women that the UN has described as "gender apartheid."
Afghanistan is the only country in the world to stop girls and women attending secondary schools and universities.
"As a result of bans imposed by the de facto authorities, at least 1.4 million girls have been deliberately denied access to secondary education since 2021," UNESCO said.
This represents an increase of 300,000 since the previous count carried out by the UN agency in April 2023.
UNESCO Director General Audrey Azoulay urged the international community to remain mobilised "to obtain the unconditional reopening of schools and universities to Afghan girls and women."
The number of primary pupils has also fallen. Afghanistan had only 5.7 million girls and boys in primary school in 2022, compared with 6.8 million in 2019, UNESCO said.
The UN agency blamed the drop on the authorities' decision to ban female teachers from teaching boys as well as the lack of incentive for parents to send children to school.
Enrollment in higher education is equally concerning, the statement said, adding that the number of university students had decreased by 53 percent since 2021.
"As a result, the country will rapidly face a shortage of graduates trained for the most highly-skilled jobs, which will only exacerbate development problems," UNESCO said.
(AFP)
Why does Afghanistan need highly educated people entering the work-force when they are living in the 7th century?
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