By Enyichukwu Enemanna
Parents in Pakistan now guard their dead daughters against rape by some randy men by putting padlocks to their graves.
Reports indicate that necrophilia cases — sexual attraction or act involving corpses are on the rise in the country and some social media users, activists and authors have raised concerns over the debasing and appalling matter.
A local media reports that one such social media influencers, 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.
“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,” Sultan tweeted on Wednesday.
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.”
Women’s bodies have been unearthed and violated on several occasions in the past.
A necrophilia case was reported in Pakistan in 2011 when a grave keeper named Muhammad Rizwan from North Nazimabad, Karachi was arrested after he confessed to raping 48 female corpses.
Rizwan was caught running away after desecrating a corpse. He had caught the attention of nearby grave diggers and some other people.
Most recently in May 2022, some unknown men dug out the corpse of a teenage girl and raped it in the Chak Kamala village in Gujrat, Pakistan. This occurred on the same night the family had buried the deceased, a PUNCH report says.
According to reports, on May 5, last year, unknown men dug out the corpse of a teenage girl and raped it in the Chak Kamala village in Gujrat, Pakistan.
Attaullah Tarar, the deputy secretary-general of the Pakistan Muslim League (PMLN), took to Twitter on May 6 to announce that 17 suspects are being interrogated and that doctors were assisting in investigating the case.
According to reports, the incident came to light when the deceased girl’s relatives visited the graveyard as religious practice demands and discovered that the body had been dug up and lying uncovered with visible signs of rape.
