>ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — The Pakistani police arrested 25 people in a rural village on Thursday, after the village council ordered a man to rape a teenage girl publicly to avenge the sexual assault of his sister.
>This month the council told Mohammad Ashfaq, 20, to rape the 16-year-old girl after Mr. Ashfaq’s family accused her brother of raping Mr. Ashfaq’s 12-year-old sister, the police said.
>The case was brought to the attention of the police in Punjab Province after the 16-year-old’s mother reported that Mr. Ashfaq had carried out the rape on July 18 in Muzaffarabad, a village near the city of Multan.
>Some members of the council were present at the time of the rape, according to a complaint that the girl’s mother filed with the police.
>The so-called honor rape, or vengeance rape, occurred after the council ruled that the rape of a minor family member was a fair punishment for the suspected rape of the 12-year-old.
>Those arrested on Thursday included 24 of the village council’s 27 members and the 15-year-old boy accused of raping the younger girl, setting off the chain of events, the police said.
>Mr. Ashfaq remained at large on Thursday.
>Vendetta rapes to settle issues of family honor remain common in the southern part of Punjab Province despite efforts by the government and rights groups to end the practice.
>Such village councils are considered illegal, but in many poor and far-flung regions residents are reluctant to go to the police.
>This case is reminiscent of the 2002 gang rape of Mukhtar Mai, who became an international cause célèbre. Ms. Mai was ordered raped as a punishment for her younger brother’s affair with a woman from a rival tribe, the Mastoi. Investigations later revealed that three Mastoi tribesmen had molested the boy, and the accusation against him had been false.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/27/world/asia/pakistan-girl-rape-council-arrest.html
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Oh dear...
And the first Islamic/Hindu holy war in over 500 years is started with two sexually repressed cultures raping each other.