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Subject: 3,153cases of violnce against women
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mohsin11 17.01.12 - 03:00pm
Pakistan punjab: As many as 3,153 cases of violence against women, including 860 kidnap cases, were recorded during last six months of 2011 in the Punjab province, says Aurat Foundations second bi-annual report on violence against women launched at the Lah*rePress Club on Monday. * +

mohsin11 17.01.12 - 03:01pm
Speaking at a news conference, former MNA Mehnaz Rafi, MPA Sajida Mir, legal adviser to governor Abdullah Malik and Policy and Data Monitoring Unit regional coordinator Nabeela Shaheen explained the details of cases of violence reported against women that include kidnap, r*pe, gang-rape, murder, suicide, domestic violence, honour-killing and sexual assault. * +

mohsin11 17.01.12 - 03:02pm
They said that 1,520incidents of violence had been recorded in rural areas while 1,306 cases were reported from urban areas. * +

mohsin11 17.01.12 - 03:02pm
While, place of occurrence in 327 incidents could not be ascertained as rural or urban. * +

mohsin11 17.01.12 - 03:03pm
In 3,153 incidents of violence, they said, 3,681 individuals were victimised in which 3,438 were women and girls and 243 were men and boys. Ratio was almost 19 women/girls who were victimised in this period on a daily basis. Moreover, five women were kidnapped, four were murdered including one killed in the name of honour, three were r*ped/gang-raped, and two women committed suicide or attempted to commit suicide on a daily basis. * +

mohsin11 17.01.12 - 03:03pm
Marital status-wise, the report stated that 1,432 victims were unmarried, 1,430 married, 44 divorced, 59 widowed, and no information of marital status was known about 473 victims. Some 87 per cent crimes were reported through FIR, three per cent remained unreported, while 10 per cent crimes were without information. * +

mohsin11 17.01.12 - 03:04pm
The report said that 968 girls were abducted along with 24 boys in 894 kidnap and attemptto kidnap incidents. Mostly accused were known to victimsand motives behind these incidents were choice marriages, revenge, litigation feud, domestic disputes, matrimonial disputes etc. * +

mohsin11 17.01.12 - 03:05pm
Major incidents of abduction and attempt to abduct were occurred in districts Sargodha with 90, Okara 87, Faisalabad 74, Rawalpindi 71 andLah*re 58 cases registered. * +

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