LAHORE, Oct 24 — For Pakistani police, reports of a college campus rape that went viral this month are “fake news” fomenting unrest. For protesting students, the social media...
The report may be fake, but the threat is real: How Pakistan erupts into street protests over campus sexual harassment
Senior officer Syeda Shehrbano Naqvi is charged with probing the case police insist has been conjured from unverifiable online rumours. Educational institutes were shut across Punjab province last Friday — when protests are generally staged after prayers — and political gatherings were banned for two days, although officials gave no reason.
The Punjab government has a women-only police emergency line where they report receiving 1,300 calls daily from women concerned about their safety. On the campus where the crime is alleged to have happened, activists painted the walls with red hand prints and demands of “justice for the rape victim”. But it was quickly painted over.
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