Parents are locking daughters' graves in Pakistan to avoid rape: Report

Parents in Pakistan are padlocking their daughters' graves to protect them from rape as cases of necrophilia are on the rise again. Some social media users, including social media activists and writers, have raised the issue.

One such user named Harris Sultan, a former Muslim atheist activist and author of the book "God's Curse, Why I Left Islam" blamed hard-line Islamist ideology for such depraved acts.

“Pakistan has created such a horny, sexually frustrated society that people now put padlocks on their daughters' graves to prevent them from being raped. When you associate the burqa with rape, it haunts you to the grave,” Sultan tweeted on Wednesday.

Another Twitter user Sajid Yousaf Shah wrote: “The social environment created by #Pakistan has given rise to a sexually charged and repressed society where some people have resorted to locking their daughters' graves to protect them from sexual violence. Such a connection between rape and an individual's clothing only leads to a path of sorrow and despair."

The most gruesome example of necrophilia ever documented in Pakistan took place in 2011, when a gravedigger named Muhammad Rizwan from North Nazimabad, Karachi was arrested after he confessed to raping 48 female corpses, as per reports.

In May 2022, some unknown men dug up the corpse of a teenage girl and raped her in Chak Kamala village in Gujrat, Pakistan. This happened on the same evening that the body of the deceased girl was buried.

This is done as a desperate attempt to ensure the sanctity of the dead bodies in case some ravenous monsters choose them to feed their lust. In view of the rampant increase in necrophilia, one cannot help but understand the urge to protect one's loved ones, the report further states.

According to the National Human Rights Commission, more than 40 percent of Pakistani women have experienced some form of violence at least once in their lifetime.