Pakistani Village Council Arrested After Ordering Teenage Girl’s Rape<br />This month the council told Mohammad Ashfaq, 20, to rape the 16-year-old girl after Mr. Ashfaq’s<br />family accused her brother of raping Mr. Ashfaq’s 12-year-old sister, the police said.<br />By SALMAN MASOODJULY 27, 2017<br />ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — The Pakistani police arrested 25 people in a rural village on Thursday, after the village<br />council ordered a man to rape a teenage girl publicly to avenge the sexual assault of his sister.<br />Those arrested on Thursday included 24 of the village council’s 27 members<br />and the 15-year-old boy accused of raping the younger girl, setting off the chain of events, the police said.<br />The case was brought to the attention of the police in Punjab Province after the 16-year-old’s mother reported<br />that Mr. Ashfaq had carried out the rape on July 18 in Muzaffarabad, a village near the city of Multan.<br />Several junior officers and the Multan chief of police were suspended for negligence after Thursday’s arrests, said Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif, the province’s chief minister, adding<br />that an investigation into the officers’ conduct would be carried out within 72 hours.<br />" Ms. Mai said in a telephone interview, referring to the year when her own case made<br />international headlines. that It seems that nothing has changed since 2002,
