Basti Kata, a resident of Mauza Ghunia in Rahim
Yar Khan district, located 400 km from provincial capital Lahore, said
his daughter went missing while playing outside his home on Thursday.
Kata informed police and registered a missing
person's report. The girl's parents and other relatives made frantic
efforts to find her but to no avail.
Yesterday, some of Kata's relatives found the
girl's body in an open field. Police took the body to a state-run
hospital in Khanpur, where the doctor on duty refused to perform an
autopsy.
The aggrieved family staged a protest outside the
hospital. Following the intervention of the local administration, the
doctor conducted an autopsy that confirmed rape.
"It appears the girl died while being raped," the doctor said. Police have registered a case against unidentified persons.
Hindus are the largest minority in Pakistan but make up only about two per cent of the population of 180 million.
Most Hindus live in southern Sindh province, where
there have been several instances of alleged abduction and forced
conversion of women from the minority community.
In Balochistan, which has a sizeable Hindu
population, the community has been targeted by militants and criminal
gangs in recent years.
source:news dot outlookindia dot com
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