A Pakistani man allegedly raped two women at gunpoint, apparently to avenge his family’s honour after his own daughter was accused of having a love affair with another villager, police said yesterday.
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Mohammed Ghaffar, 40, who is now on the run, was furious at the suspicion that 24-year-old Mohammed Riaz was involved with his 17-year-old daughter. He raped Riaz’s sister and elder brother’s wife last week in Basti Dinga, a village about 45km east of Multan, a city in the eastern Punjab province, local police official Saadullah Khan said. The victims had gone to Ghaffar to explain to him that there was no affair between Riaz and Ghaffar’s daughter, after three other villagers had persuaded them to follow a traditional conflict resolution practice of sending women between aggrieved parties to make peace. Instead of allowing the women to return home, Ghaffar allegedly took them to a deserted house surrounded by wheat fields and forced them to have sex with him at gunpoint.
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Khan said police have arrested a brother of Ghaffar, but Ghaffar and three other men who had asked the women to mediate are on the run. All face charges of rape and complicity in rape and could face life in prison if convicted. |