Padlocks are now being placed on the graves of their late daughters in Pakistan to keep them from being raped by some criminal individuals.
According to a research, necrophilia instances are on the rise in the country, and on Thursday, some social media users, including activists and authors, addressed the issue once more.
According to First Post, one such user, Harris Sultan, an ex-Muslim Atheist campaigner and author of “The Curse of God, Why I Left Islam,” blamed extreme Islamist philosophy for such heinous deeds.
“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 desecrated on several occasions in the past.
The scariest necrophilia case ever reported in Pakistan was 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.
According to reports, the tragic act was discovered when the deceased girl’s relatives attended the burial the following morning in accordance with their religious traditions. The kin discovered the body dug up and exposed. Rape marks were found on the body.
In 2021, some unknown guys committed a similar barbarous act in Maulvi Ashraf Chandio’s village near Ghulamullah.
In 2020, A man was arrested on February 28 after being caught red-handed raping a corpse of a woman in a graveyard in Punjab, Pakistan. The incident occurred in Okara City in the Punjab province. The accused was identified by his first name, Ashraf.
In 2019, a woman’s dead body was allegedly dug up and raped by unidentified men in Karachi’s Landhi Town. The woman was buried in Ismail Goth Graveyard.
One day after she was buried, the woman’s body was discovered. The graveyard’s custodian informed the deceased’s family that a dog had removed the stone that covered the grave.
In 2013, the body of a 15-year-old girl was discovered outside her grave in Gujranwala, where she had allegedly been sexually raped.
Following this occurrence, Pakistan’s then-chief minister of Punjab, Shahbaz Sharif, demanded an immediate investigation. According to reports, the case is still pending.