Three men in Pakistan have been arrested over the rape of a woman on a train from Karachi to Multan on May 27. Pakistan’s railway ministry reported that the men asked the woman to move to a carriage with air conditioning, before they attacked her on the moving train.
One of the accused is a ticket checker for the train. The woman is a 25 year old mother of 2. A police report said the men have already been arrested.
Now, Pakistan is reeling. Women’s rights activist Fouzia Saeed demanded that police “make the environment safer” for women. The country’s Dawn newspaper called the gang-rape “a ghastly crime”. Dawn wrote in an editorial that Pakistan’s “cavalier” approach to security encourages men to act on their worst instincts.
This recent attack is only the latest product of Pakistan’s problem with violent misogyny. Last year, a man beheaded a 27 year old woman…
