Sacrilege: Women corpses raped in Pakistan

By Miracle Esegha, Warri

Pakistani men have been accused of indulging in raping women’s corpses buried in graveyards.

This development has upset residents of the country as netizens appealed for a stop and prosecution of culprits.

What is seen as an abomination in other climes is what Pakistani men enjoy doing.

Congress learnt that with the frequent rape cases of female corpses in Pakistani, parents had begun to padlock their daughter’s graves to avoid being raped by unscrupulous men in the country.

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

It was reported that 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.

According to the report, 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.”