Pakistan village council arrested for ordering 'revenge rape' of girl.

[Luiz 4,253]

Some 20 people from Multan, Pakistan, have been arrested for ordering the rape of a teenage girl, in revenge for a rape her brother allegedly committed.

Police said the families of the two girls are related.

Members of both had joined forces to decide what should be done.

"A jirga [village council] had ordered the rape of a 16-year-old girl as punishment, as her brother had raped a 12-year-old," police official Allah Baksh told AFP.

He said the village council was approached earlier this month by a man who said his 12-year-old sister had been raped by their cousin.

The council then ordered the complainant to rape the sister of the accused in return - which police say he did.

Pakistan's Dawn newspaper reported that the girl was forced to appear before the group and raped in front of them and her parents.

The mothers of the two girls later filed complaints at the local police station.

Medical examinations have confirmed rape in both cases.

Another officer, Ahsan Younas, told BBC Urdu that the first girl to be raped was aged between 12 and 14. The victim of the revenge rape is said to be 16 or 17.

He said police had registered a complaint against 25 people, and that the suspect accused of raping the 12-year-old was still at large.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-40731035

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What year is it?

[Blue wig 353]

Where's the logic? If the man complained his sister got raped, doesn't that mean he recognises she went through something terrible? So why would he accept to do that to an innocent girl, why would he accept to do something atrocious himself, just to get "revenge" on the first rapist? He obviously hates the first rapist, so that's just lowering himself down to his level.

[Adampervez 603]

I lived in pakistan for a very short time and there is absolutely no control in the northern areas of the country exvept for the capital islamabad and major city Lahore. These orders would never be done by the south and major cities as the government has full control over those areas, but the north is still very much led in tribes with cheifs and villages that have their own rules and laws. Its just so sad that these horrible villages still exist and i pray that the laws of these areas and chiefs are eradicated.