Parents in Pakistan are locking the graves of their daughters with padlocks to protect them from being raped, as necrophilia case is on the rise once again. The issue has been highlighted by some social media users, including activists and authors on social media.
One such user named Harris Sultan, an Ex-Muslim Atheist activist and the author of the book “The Curse of God, why I left Islam” blamed hardline Islamist ideology for such depraved acts.
“Pakistan has created such a horny, sexually frustrated society that people are now putting padlocks on the graves of their daughters to prevent them from getting raped. When you link the burqa with rape, it follows 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 daughter’s graves to protect them from sexual violence. Such a connection between rape and an individual’s clothing only leads to a path filled with grief and despair.”
The most terrifying example of necrophilia ever documented in Pakistan occurred in 2011, when a gravekeeper named Muhammad Rizwan from north Nazimabad, Karachi, was detained after admitting to raping 48 female corpses, news agency ANI reported.
In May 2022, some unknown men dug out the corpse of a teenage girl and raped it in the Chak Kamala village in Gujrat, Pakistan. This happened the same evening the deceased girl’s body was buried.
This is being done as a desperate bid to ensure the sanctity of dead bodies in case some randy monsters cherry-pick them to satiate their lust. Considering the rampant rise in necrophilia, one can’t help but understand the urge to protect loved ones, the report further said.
According to National Commission for Human Rights, more than 40 per cent of Pakistani women have experienced some form of violence at least once in their lifetime.
