By PHP Staff
Monday, May 02, 2011
New York, (IANS) The Pakistani army is sexually assaulting minority women and using them as sex slaves, alleges the European Organization of Pakistani Minorities (EOPM), an NGO working for the rights of minorities in Pakistan.
In a prayer-cum-demonstration held at the UN, it said the Pakistani army is taking minority women away from their families, raping them and then using them as sex slaves.
Referring to the December attacks on Christians in Lahore, the organisation alleged that attacks on minorities in Pakistan were increasing.
Using a symbolic broken chair to highlight the plight of minorities in Pakistan, more than 100 women from different faiths lit candles at the prayer to highlight the plight of minority women allegedly being raped and killed by the Pakistani Army.
Expressing concern over the plight of women of Balochistan and Gilgit Baltistan, the organisers said army officials are taking them to torture camps, raping them and then using them as sex slaves.
"One such case is of that Zarina Marri who is a 23-year-old school teacher from Quetta and is being used as a sex slave by the Pakistani Army," the EOPM said in a statement.
It said international observers and the media should be allowed free access to Balochistan and Gilgit Baltistan to meet families whose women members have disappeared and yet no police cases have been registered.
The organisation demanded that the UN organise a special session on the plight of Pakistani women.
According to the EOPM, religious minorities constitute much more than five percent - as claimed in Pakistani census - of Pakistan's 160 million population.
However, the census intentionally keeps minority population low to deny them greater representation, it said.
Christians, Sikhs, Hindus and other minorities are constant targets of attacks in Pakistan, it said, citing Minority Rights Group International, a watchdog organisation, which ranked Pakistan last year as, "the world's top country for major increases in threats to minorities since 2007".
Pakistan has also been listed seventh among the 10 most dangerous countries for minorities, after Somalia, Sudan, Afghanistan, Iraq, Myanmar and Congo.
Monday, May 02, 2011
(Photo : Pakistan Army. In its annual survey on human rights the State)
In a prayer-cum-demonstration held at the UN, it said the Pakistani army is taking minority women away from their families, raping them and then using them as sex slaves.
Referring to the December attacks on Christians in Lahore, the organisation alleged that attacks on minorities in Pakistan were increasing.
Using a symbolic broken chair to highlight the plight of minorities in Pakistan, more than 100 women from different faiths lit candles at the prayer to highlight the plight of minority women allegedly being raped and killed by the Pakistani Army.
Expressing concern over the plight of women of Balochistan and Gilgit Baltistan, the organisers said army officials are taking them to torture camps, raping them and then using them as sex slaves.
"One such case is of that Zarina Marri who is a 23-year-old school teacher from Quetta and is being used as a sex slave by the Pakistani Army," the EOPM said in a statement.
It said international observers and the media should be allowed free access to Balochistan and Gilgit Baltistan to meet families whose women members have disappeared and yet no police cases have been registered.
The organisation demanded that the UN organise a special session on the plight of Pakistani women.
According to the EOPM, religious minorities constitute much more than five percent - as claimed in Pakistani census - of Pakistan's 160 million population.
However, the census intentionally keeps minority population low to deny them greater representation, it said.
Christians, Sikhs, Hindus and other minorities are constant targets of attacks in Pakistan, it said, citing Minority Rights Group International, a watchdog organisation, which ranked Pakistan last year as, "the world's top country for major increases in threats to minorities since 2007".
Pakistan has also been listed seventh among the 10 most dangerous countries for minorities, after Somalia, Sudan, Afghanistan, Iraq, Myanmar and Congo.
UN should devide pakistan -a seperate state for non muslim minorities seriously.
ReplyDeletePakistani Hindus shd start acting like indian muslims, making suicide bomber squads, forming terrorist organizations, coz what hindus and other minorities are in pakistan is not better than hell.
ReplyDeleteIN 1971 PAKISTAN CARRIED OUT A GENOCIDE ON HINDUS IN EAST PAKISTAN. GENERAL NIAZI IS ON RECORD FOR ASKING A SOLDIER ' HOW MANY HINDUS HAVE YOU KILLED TODAY"? NO ONE PUNISHED THE PAKISTAN ARMY, NO ONE ACCUSED ITS GENERALS OF WAR CRIMES. TODAY PAKISTAN HAS DEGENERATED INTO THE EPICENTER OF ISLAMIC TERROR. ITS MADRASSAS TRAIN AND EXPORT TERRORISTS WORLD WIDE. IN FEB 2010 PAKISTANI ISLAMIC TERRORISTS BEHEADED TWO SIKHS FOR REFUSING TO CONVERT. PLEASE RAISE UR VOICE AGAINST THIS TYRANNY AND STOP ISLAMIC OPPRESSION ON HINDUS SIKHS & CHRISTIANS.
ReplyDeleteUN should devide pakistan -a seperate state for non muslim minorities seriously.
ReplyDeletepakistan hindus should learn the listen from indian muslims that how they are being unity.
ReplyDeleteMAke your physic strong by eating meat or beef what ever it is. then only mmuslims have fear with us.
Fuck U Hindu we r coming to through u out from south east asia.
ReplyDeleteLong live Pakistan.
Long live Pakistan Army.
Bull shit Human Rights (Bastered).
They cant see the human rights voilations in indian held Kashmir. They cant see the human right voilations in Palistine.
What the israel is doing with muslims.
DONT PUSH US TO PAY BACK IN A SAME COIN.
pakistani muslims are bastards................mother fuckers...
Deletei have never seen such incident in my life,living in minority area i don,t know where you have seen such incidents,well but in India it,s not new thing it,s on usual basis not in pakistan.and our Pak army is not such lusty........shame on your post.
ReplyDeleteSUB LOORO LASSAN BHAGWAN KO SAMNAY RAKH K SEXUALLY AND RAP KI BATAIN KARTAY HO ..
ReplyDeletewell whole pakistan will end after 2014...and shall divide different part..dont worry pakistanis..u shall get relief after 2014 from ur bogus country..
ReplyDeleteHindus throughtout the world must unite and fight these baseless muslims that dont have a real philosophy .Muslims are converts .Proud South african Hindu
ReplyDeleteu indians dont worry ur countey will soon be ours and dont forget to see the map of 2020 made ny ISI
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