Unbelievable: Netizens React as Parents lock their daughters’ Graves to Avoid Rape in Pakistan

By Sola Omoniyi, Lagos

With the frequent rape case in Pakistani, it has gotten to the idea of padlocking graves to avoid rape by men.

Parents in Pakistan are now locking their daughter’s graves to prevent being raped by some men.

The Necrophilia case first reported in Pakistan was in 2011 when Muhammad Rizwan, a grave keeper arrested for raping a 48-year female corpse.

The case increased in 2022 when some unidentified men dug out the corpse of a teenage girl and raped it, the same night she was buried.

Reports stated that the deceased family went to the graveyard the next morning according to tradition, but found the body of the teenager lying uncovered, checks on her confirmed she was raped.

It was reported that some unknown men carried out the same shameful act in a Village near the Coastal town of Ghulamullah in Pakistan.

On February 28, 2023, a man was arrested during the act, raping a corpse of a woman in a graveyard in Punjab, Pakistan, he’s identified as Ashraf.

The same sad occurrence happened to a 15-year-old girl’s body, found lying outside her grave in Gujranwala and confirmed sexually assaulted.

Following, the sad occurrences, parents have started padlocking the graves of their daughters to avoid stories that touch them.

In reaction to this, Harris Sultan, an ex-Muslim Atheist activist and the author of the book “The Curse of God, why I Left Islam” blamed hardline Islamist ideology for such depraved acts.

A man identified as Sultan also tweeted; “Pakistan has created such a horny, sexually frustrated society that people are now putting padlocks on the graves of their daughters to prevent them from getting raped. When you link the burqa with rape, it follows you to the grave,”

In addition, another Twitter user Sajid Yousaf Shah wrote, “The social environment created by #Pakistan has given rise to a sexually charged and repressed society, where some people have resorted to locking their daughter’s graves to protect them from sexual violence. Such a connection between rape and an individual’s clothing only leads to a path filled with grief and despair.”