Staff Reporter
Islamabad : According to research by the Sustainable Social Development Organisation (SSDO) and the Centre for Research, Development and Communication (CRDC), kidnapping of women, rape and sexual abuse were the most frequently occurring cases of violence against women and children in September.
Official data from the police was collected by submitting a ‘Right to Information’ request to the provincial police departments across the country, where a response was received from all provinces, expect Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa.
Furthermore, SSDO also conducted daily media tracking of 13 of Pakistan’s most widely read newspapers to gauge the attention devoted to such issues in the mainstream media.
A staggeringly high 844 cases of kidnapping of women were registered with the Punjab Police in September alone.
This statistic is incredibly alarming as it would mean that on average, 28 women are kidnapped every single day, meaning at least one woman is kidnapped every single hour.
Additionally, 491 women were raped across the province of Punjab in September according to the Punjab Police; meaning over a hundred women were raped every single week, with an average of 16 women raped daily. On the other hand, according to media tracking, only 43 such cases were reported in Punjab.
