July 25, 2021
Recently, a sessions court in Karachi has sentenced a man to 14 years in prison after he was found guilty of raping his eight-year-old daughter a couple of years ago. According to Cruel Numbers 2020, eight children get sexually abused every day in Pakistan, while the conviction rate in such cases is less than three per cent. Of all these, reportage of the incest is a rare sight and a painful process explicitly for the victims and for the naked eyes.
Let’s take a stride through the trial of this case to understand it.
The incident
On Thursday, March 7, 2019, Zakiya , a young maid, was at work. Her three children returned home from their day school in the evening. Their father, Shahid, welcomed them. He sent his two younger sons to play outside, locked the door and raped his daughter, Gulshan .