Incidents of heinous crimes in Pakistan continued unabated in September, 2014. Brutality, Child abuse, Honor Killing, Intolerance, Denial of justice, Misuse of power, and Violence against women reflects the extent of growing violent tendencies across Pakistan. Most of these crimes are committed by the relatives of the victims. These crimes can’t be eliminated by use of force as the perpetrators are seldom suspected as criminals. They commit these crimes because they get motivation from the prevalent centuries old socio-cultural norms and values in the society. These norms and values allow such crimes to go unrecognized and unpunished for religious, ethical and moral reasons. Following is the data to examine these crimes.
- Brutality
- Child abuse
- Honor Killing
- Intolerance
- Justice denied
- Misuse of power
- Teen’s crimes
- Terrorism against children
- Violence against women
- Brutality: Four cases
- Slitting of an old woman
- Killing of a son in front of his mother
- Murder for petty issue
- Kidnapping and killing of a child by a woman
| Date | Source | City | Province | Narrative |
| 3-Sep-14 | The News | Burewala | Punjab | Prayer leader tries to rape girl in mosque By our correspondent BUREWALA: People foiled a rape attempt with a four-year-old girl by a prayer leader at Bairiki Mujahid Colony on Tuesday. |
| 3-Sep-14 | Express Tribune | Mansehra | KP | The nightmare continues: Teenage victim pressured by rapist to settle the case MANSEHRA: Fourteen-year-old Masooma Bibi* who was first raped by five men and then by the policeman she turned to help for has said the latter is threatening her to drop the charges or reach a settlement. |
| 11-Sep-14 | The News | Charsadda | KP | CHARSADDA: Foiling an attempt to marry a 13-year-old girl under the ‘Swara’, the police on Wednesday arrested the jirga members and representatives of the two parties in Rajar village in Charsadda district, official sources said.A jirga was in progress to settle the dispute and had decided to give away Kamil Ali’s sister Razia Bibi in Swara to the girl’s brother Shezad, 13, to settle the dispute. |
| 15-Sep-14 | The News | Gujranwala | Punjab | GUJRANWALA: A Class 4 student lost his one eye after being tortured by an influential landowner over a minor issue in the Sadoke Cheema village in Ahmadnagar Chattha police limits on Saturday. |
- Child abuse: Six cases
- Rape Attempt of a 4 year girl by a prayer leader
- Rapists threat to drop the case
- An attempt to marry a 13-year-old girl under the ‘Swara’
- Class 4 student lost his one eye after being tortured by an influential landowner
- Two fingers of class 9 student broken in a beating by her teacher
- A 12-year-old rape victim and her mother try to set them ablazed
| Date | Source | City | Province | Narrative |
| 3-Sep-14 | The News | Burewala | Punjab | Prayer leader tries to rape girl in mosque By our correspondent BUREWALA: People foiled a rape attempt with a four-year-old girl by a prayer leader at Bairiki Mujahid Colony on Tuesday. |
| 3-Sep-14 | Express Tribune | Mansehra | KP | The nightmare continues: Teenage victim pressured by rapist to settle the case MANSEHRA: Fourteen-year-old Masooma Bibi* who was first raped by five men and then by the policeman she turned to help for has said the latter is threatening her to drop the charges or reach a settlement. |
| 11-Sep-14 | The News | Charsadda | KP | CHARSADDA: Foiling an attempt to marry a 13-year-old girl under the ‘Swara’, the police on Wednesday arrested the jirga members and representatives of the two parties in Rajar village in Charsadda district, official sources said. A jirga was in progress to settle the dispute and had decided to give away Kamil Ali’s sister Razia Bibi in Swara to the girl’s brother Shezad, 13, to settle the dispute. |
| 15-Sep-14 | The News | Gujranwala | Punjab | GUJRANWALA: A Class 4 student lost his one eye after being tortured by an influential landowner over a minor issue in the Sadoke Cheema village in Ahmadnagar Chattha police limits on Saturday. |
| 20-Sep-14 | Express Tribune | Faisalabad | Punjab | FAISALABAD: A grade 9 student suffered two broken fingers in a beating by her teacher on Friday. |
| 25-Sep-14 | The News | Multan | Punjab | MULTAN: A 12-year-old rape victim and her mother were saved by journalists and civil society activists on Wednesday after they set themselves on fire at Multan Press Club. The girl, Samina*, had been protesting with her family including her mother in front of the Multan Press Club. She said she was raped by an 18-year-old son of a land lord on September 18. |
- Honor Killing: Two cases
- Man kills wife, two daughters for honor
- Brothers kill their sister and injure her lover
| Date | Source | City | Province | Narrative |
| 1-Sep-14 | The News | Gujranwala | Punjab | ‘For honor’: Man kills wife, two daughters GUJRANWALA: A man who recently returned from Saudi Arabia killed his wife and two daughters for honor in Sialkot on Sunday. |
| 22-Sep-14 | The News | Charsadda | KP | CHARSADDA: A woman was killed and her alleged lover sustained injuries in an attack near Mirabad Bridge. the woman along with her lover was on the way to her parents’ home when her brothers Muhammad Ayub, Imran and Adil allegedly opened fire on them, |
- Intolerance: One case
- A high school teacher was kidnapped by a group of armed men
| Date | Source | City | Province | Narrative |
| 23-Sep-14 | Express Tribune | Kech | Balochistan | QUETTA: A government high school teacher was kidnapped by a group of armed men in the Kech area of Turbat on Monday. Previously in May, an armed group based in Panjgur, Balochistan’s western district, threatened 23 English Language Learning Centers to shut down and stop imparting co-education and teaching in English, which they say is ‘Haram (prohibited) in Islam’. |
- Justice denied: One case
- Killing of a man for pursuing the murder case
| Date | Source | City | Province | Narrative |
| 11-Sep-14 | The News | Pakpattan | Punjab | POs kill man for pursuing murder case in Pakpattan PAKPATTAN: Four proclaimed offenders killed a man for pursuing the murder case of his uncle. |
- Misuse of power: One case
- MNA booked for inciting flood victims to attack civil administration
| Date | Source | City | Province | Narrative |
| 19-Sep-14 | Express Tribune | Multan | Punjab | Muzaffargarh police had registered a case against Jamshed Dasti (MNA) for inflicting self-injury and inciting flood victims to attack civil administration and police officials. |
- Teen’s crimes: One case
- Kidnapping a three year old child by a teenager
| Date | Source | City | Province | Narrative |
| 13-Sep-14 | Express Tribune | Faisalabad | Punjab | Inspired by Bollywood: Teenager arrested for kidnapping a three year old child in Faisalabad. |
- Terrorism against children: One case
- Armed men kill two students of class 4 and 10
| Date | Source | City | Province | Narrative |
| 30-Sep-14 | The News | Bara | Khyber Agency | BARA: BARA: Unidentified armed men killed two brothers (Class 4 and 10 students) as they were going to school in Malik Dinkhel area in Bara tehsil. |
- Violence against women
| Date | Source | City | Province | Narrative |
| 5-Sep-14 | Express Tribune | Bahawalpur | Punjab | Deadly fury: Woman strangled by husband BAHAWALPUR: A man killed his wife by strangulating her. |
| 13-Sep-14 | The News | Faisalabad | Punjab | FAISALABAD: Five men including three sons of a ruling party MNA abducted an 18-year-old girl in Madina Town police station area and subjected her to gang-rape Thursday night. |
| 14-Sep-14 | The News | Faisalabad | Punjab | FAISALABAD: The girl, who leveled rape charges against three sons of a ruling party MNA, deviated from her statement in the court here on Saturday. |
| 18-Sep-14 | Express Tribune | Faisalabad | Punjab | Ali, the landlord’s son, and his friend Saeed had been raping her for the past seven months. |
| 21-Sep-14 | Express Tribune | Jhang | Punjab | A 16-year-old girl was attacked with acid on Saturday in Jhang by two men, one of whom was allegedly rejected for marriage by the victim’s family, Express News reported. |
Tags: Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (KPK), Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), Member National Assembly (MNA), Gender Based Violence (GBV), Pakistan Honor Killing, Heinous Crimes Pakistan, Mansehra, Balochistan intolerance, Child abuse.