Peshawar, Sep 13
In a horrific incident, a 21-year-old Afghan woman was allegedly gang-raped by five men in a refugee camp set up in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's Haripur city, the local media reported on Saturday.
According to the First Information Report (FIR), the victim was on her way to Camp-16 for work when five men forcibly dragged her into nearby fields and raped her for two hours.
"The Khalabat police have booked all five suspects under Section 375A of the Pakistan Penal Code, which states that when rape is committed by two or more persons in furtherance of the common intention of all, each of such persons shall be punished with death or imprisonment for life," the report added.
Since April 1, some 57,300 individuals have been arrested and detained, including PoR cardholders. In August alone, some 9,000 arrests were recorded, compared to some 3,400 in the entire month of July.
A UN document detailed that, as of September 4, at least 531,700 Afghans have returned from Pakistan in 2025.