INTRODUCTION
Since May 2014, The Center for Research and Security Studies (CRSS) began collecting data on heinous crimes from the local press covering the national spectrum. These are the crimes committed by those who, in most of the cases, are not necessarily career criminals or militants. Yet, they indulge in such offences because of the values and traditions they consider as a license for their crimes. During the eight months of 2014, almost every day a heinous crime was committed in the country and if we look at the number of casualties of these crimes the victims are more than one per day.
Errors and omissions, a possibility in all statistical works, can occur. However, such mistakes do not grossly affect the basic objective of this report.
NOTE: All data is from May – December, 2014.
Report prepared by:
Mohammad Nafees
Senior Research Fellow
Center for Research and Security Studies
NOTE: Readers can approach CRSS for source of any information included in the report. Please send your requests/comments/questions to: mail@crss.pk.
LIST OF ACRONYMS
STATISTICAL ANALYSIS
FATALITIES AND INJURIES OF HEINOUS CRIMES
The data collected on the subject is a good explanation of what we consider as heinous crimes. Tables 01 and 02 below show what kinds of crime were committed during the period and the individuals who committed them. Out of 238 occurrences of heinous crimes, 108 were committed by close relatives[1] or blood relations[2], a figure close to 50% of the total number (table 02).
Another aspect is the vulnerability of the victims of these crimes. Among all victims of heinous crimes, minor children are the highest affected. The age of child victims ranges from 3 to 12 years and more than one third of them are between 3 to 5 years of age. Gender distribution of these victims is 19 female and 17 male, showing that the gender identity was less important than their age that made them vulnerable to become victims of such crimes.
HEINOUS CRIMES – AFFECTED LOCATIONS
The province of Punjab had the highest number of victims of heinous crime during the period under review, followed by Khyber Pukhtunkhwa (KP), Sindh, Balochistan, the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), and Islamabad. Interestingly, there is almost no correlation with violence data in the CRSS Security Reports[3]. For example, in 2014, Punjab had the lowest number of fatalities from violence among all administrative regions of the country. The province of Sindh and FATA that always record the highest number of fatalities from violence, appear to have a different trend in heinous crimes rate. They fall at third and fifth level among other provinces in terms of the number of events (table 03).
Heinous Crimes – Punjab
Four main districts of Punjab, including its capital, are the highest affected. Even Karachi, the most populous and most violent district in all of Pakistan, appears to be least affected of this crime when compared with other districts of the country. Out of 46 locations in the Punjab, 35 were found to have experienced one or more than one incidents of heinous crime while in the case of violence-related incidents only 25 locations were found affected. The13 districts in Punjab that had fatalities from heinous crimes had no fatalities from violence during the entire year of 2014 (table 05). Thirteen districts show no fatalities from violence where fatalities from heinous crimes are reported.
| Table 04: Fatalities from violence and heinous crimes in Punjab – 2014 | ||||
| # | Districts | Fatality-violence | Fatality-heinous | Casualty-heinous |
| 1 | Lahore | 125 | 14 | 28 |
| 2 | Faisalabad | 37 | 10 | 25 |
| 3 | Gujranwala | 17 | 12 | 20 |
| 4 | Multan | 8 | 7 | 17 |
| 5 | Bahawalpur | 17 | 8 | 14 |
| 6 | Rajanpur | 5 | 8 | 13 |
| 7 | Jhang | 2 | 4 | 10 |
| 8 | Okara | 7 | 3 | 8 |
| 9 | Gujrat | 4 | 5 | 6 |
| 10 | Pakpattan | 1 | 4 | 6 |
| 11 | Burewala | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| 12 | Sialkot | 1 | 5 | 5 |
| 13 | Vehari | 0 | 5 | 5 |
| 14 | Hafizabad | 2 | 4 | 5 |
| 15 | Jaranwala | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| 16 | Chakwal | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 17 | Rahim Yar Khan | 4 | 1 | 5 |
| 18 | Wah Cantt | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 19 | Arifwala | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 20 | Cheechawatni | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 21 | Muzaffargarh | 15 | 1 | 2 |
| 22 | Sargodha | 5 | 1 | 2 |
| 23 | Toba Tek Singh | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 24 | Daska | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 25 | Hasilpur | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 26 | Kasur | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 27 | Khanewal | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| 28 | Lalamusa | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 29 | Layyah | 3 | 1 | 2 |
| 30 | Malakwal | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 31 | Narowal | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 32 | Rawalpindi | 31 | 1 | 1 |
| 33 | Sadiqabad | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 34 | Sahiwal | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 35 | Sheikhupura | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 36 | Attock | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 37 | Bahawalnagar | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 38 | Bhakkar | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 39 | Chiniot | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 40 | Dera Ghazi Khan | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| 41 | Jhelum | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 42 | Khushab | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 43 | Lodhran | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 44 | Mandi Bahauddin | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 45 | Mianwali | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 46 | Nankana Sahib | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| Total | 307 | 111 | 205 | |
| Note 1: The heinous crime data is from all of May-December 2014. | ||||
| Note 2: The violence data is from all of 2014. | ||||
The nature of heinous crimes reported from Punjab shows that violence against women, honor killings, child abuse, and brutality are very high. The heinous crimes recorded across Pakistan can be listed in over 20 different categories, and 17 of them were found in Punjab alone. No other province features so many of the heinous crime categories.
Among the victims of heinous crimes in Punjab, the highest number was of minor children at 21 casualties, followed by married couples at 17 (table 05). Even the infants suffered heinous crimes, the lowest age being just 6 months old.
| Table 05: Victims of heinous crimes in Punjab – 2014 | |
| Victims | Casualties |
| Minors | 21 |
| Married couples | 17 |
| Unknown women | 30 |
| Wives | 13 |
| Unknown men | 11 |
| Daughters | 8 |
| Jewelers | 8 |
| Kiln Laborers | 7 |
| Sisters | 7 |
| Wife and Daughter | 6 |
| Brothers | 5 |
| Ex-Wives | 5 |
| Ahmedis | 4 |
| Infants | 4 |
| Wife and stepson | 4 |
| Accomplices | 3 |
| Mothers and Children | 3 |
| Mother and Sisters | 3 |
| Policemen | 3 |
| Cattle Rustlers | 3 |
| Others | 40 |
| Total | 205 |
The methods used for committing heinous crimes were; gunned down (20), acid attack (14), gang rape (14), murder (8), burnt alive (7), strangulated (6), beaten to death (6), and many others. The causes that led the perpetrators to commit such crimes against the victims are vulnerability (52 events), love marriage (10), marriage refusal (4), alleged loose morals (4), suspected of affairs (3), domestic issues (2), and many others.
The perpetrators of these crimes were husbands (15), fathers (11), brothers (7), landlords (5), neighbors (5), relatives (4), suitors (3), brothers-in-law (2), cousins (2), former husbands (2), husbands/fathers (2), kiln owners (2), parents-in-law (2), parents (2) policemen (2) prayer leaders (2), religious zealots (2), rivals (2) sons-in-law (2), uncles (2), boyfriends (2), brother/brother-in-law (1), business rival (1), classmate (1), and many others. This clearly establishes the fact that the perpetrators are close relatives or well-known to the victims.
Heinous Crimes – Balochistan
Out of 34 locations in Balochistan, 9 exhibited heinous crimes. The highest number of cases occurred in Quetta, the capital of the province, followed by Boghra, Chaman, Dera Murad Jumali, Jaffarabad, Jhal Magsi, Kech, Mastung, and Pishin (table 06). Comparing the locations of heinous crimes with the locations of violence, the difference is 9 to 26.
| Table 06: Fatalities from violence and heinous crimes in Balochistan – 2014 | ||||
| # | Districts | Number of heinous crimes | Fatality-heinous | Fatality-violence |
| 1 | Quetta | 5 | 13 | 170 |
| 2 | Boghra | 2 | 4 | 0 |
| 3 | Chaman | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 4 | Dera Murad Jamali | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 5 | Jaffarabad | 1 | 1 | 7 |
| 6 | Jhal Magsi | 1 | 11 | 20 |
| 7 | Kech | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 8 | Mastung | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 9 | Pishin | 1 | 0 | 18 |
| 10 | Awaran | 0 | 0 | 20 |
| 11 | Barkhan | 0 | 0 | 15 |
| 12 | Chagai (Taftan) | 0 | 0 | 33 |
| 13 | Dera Bugti (Sui) | 0 | 0 | 79 |
| 14 | Gwadar | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 15 | Harnai | 0 | 0 | 8 |
| 16 | Kachi (Bolan) | 0 | 0 | 35 |
| 17 | Kalat | 0 | 0 | 84 |
| 18 | Kharan | 0 | 0 | 58 |
| 19 | Khuzdar | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| 20 | Killa Abdullah | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 21 | Killa Saifullah | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 22 | Kohlu | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| 23 | Lasbela | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 24 | Lehri | 0 | 0 | 7 |
| 25 | Loralai | 0 | 0 | 46 |
| 26 | Musakhel | 0 | 0 | 28 |
| 27 | Nushki | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| 28 | Panjgur | 0 | 0 | 37 |
| 29 | Sherani | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 30 | Sibi | 0 | 0 | 31 |
| 31 | Sohbatpur | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 32 | Washuk | 0 | 0 | 19 |
| 33 | Zhob | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 34 | Ziarat | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Total | 14 | 31 | 752 | |
| Note 1: The heinous crime data is from all of May-December 2014. | ||||
| Note 2: The violence data is from all of 2014. | ||||
The nature of heinous crime in Balochistan included violence against women, honor killings, intolerance, infanticide, matricide, militancy, and tribal feud (table 07). The most noticeable point in these indicators is the high number of casualty against very small number of events of intolerance and tribal feud.
| Table 07: Heinous crimes in Balochistan – May-December 2014 | ||||
| Nature of crime | Number of events | Fatalities | Injured | Total casualties |
| Violence against women | 6 | 5 | 12 | 17 |
| Honor killing | 2 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| Intolerance | 2 | 11 | 12 | 23 |
| Infanticide | 1 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| Matricide | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Militancy | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Tribal feud | 1 | 6 | 5 | 11 |
| Total | 14 | 31 | 29 | 60 |
The victims of heinous crimes in Balochistan were family members (11), men and children (6), daughter (3), stepmothers and sisters (3), daughters and paramours (2), teenage sister and her friend (2), wives (2), and unknown women (12 injured because of acid attacks). 25% of these crimes were committed by blood and close relatives while the remaining 75% were committed by distant acquaintances and unknown people.
Heinous Crimes – Sindh
The number of heinous crimes in Sindh were higher than Balochistan but the casualties were almost half of what was witnessed in Balochistan (table 06 and 08). Unlike Punjab and Balochistan, the capital city of Sindh, Karachi, was found to be the least affected of this crime in terms of number of events and the casualties (table 08).
Heinous crimes observed in Sindh include honor killings (7 events), brutality (5), child abuse (3), juvenile crime (3), violence against women (3), intolerance (1), and misuse of power (1).
Among all victims of these crimes in Sindh, minor children were the highest affected (4 dead), followed by brothers (3), fathers (2), sister-in-law and paramour (2), sister and paramour (2) unknown men (2), wife and paramour (2), unknown women (2), son (1), teenage boy (1), wife (1), and young man (1).
Three of the four minor children were just five years of age, and the age of fourth is unknown. The crimes included gunning down the victims (17 dead), axed to death (2), clashes (3), clubbed to death (1), dumped dead body of minor (1), raped and killed (1), strangulated (1), gang raped (4), acid attacks (3), and burnt alive (1). The reasons cited for these crimes were domestic issues, karo-kari (honor killing), love marriage, enmity, goat in the wrong field, illicit relations, and some others.
| Table 08: Casualties from heinous crimes in Sindh – May-December 2014 | ||||
| # | Districts | Number of events | Fatalities | Injured |
| 1 | Sukkur | 10 | 13 | 6 |
| 2 | Karachi | 9 | 8 | 4 |
| 3 | Dadu | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 4 | Shikarpur | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 5 | Khairpur | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 6 | Mirpurkhas | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| Total | 23 | 25 | 10 | |
Of 25 districts in Sindh, only 6 experienced heinous crimes during the period of this report leaving 25 persons dead. As compared to this the incidents of violence were observed in 16 districts of Sindh and the number of fatality was as high as 2,193. Sindh is the only province in the country where the male victims of heinous crimes are higher than female.
| Table 09: Fatalities from violence and heinous crimes in Sindh – May-December 2014 | |||
| Districts | Number of events | Fatality-heinous | Fatality-violence |
| Karachi | 9 | 8 | 2029 |
| Sukkur | 10 | 13 | 67 |
| Hyderabad | 0 | 0 | 37 |
| Kashmore (Kandhkot) | 0 | 0 | 13 |
| Khairpur | 1 | 0 | 9 |
| Larkana | 0 | 0 | 7 |
| Thatta (Dhabeji | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| Naushahro Feroze | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| Mirpurkhas | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| Nawabshah | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Dadu | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| Shahdadpur | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Umerkot | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Shikarpur | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Jacobabad | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Jamshoro | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Badin | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Matiari | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mirpur Mathelo | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mithi | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qambar | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sanghar | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sujawal | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Tando Allahyar | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Tando Muhammad Khan | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Total | 23 | 25 | 2193 |
Heinous Crimes – KP
After Punjab, KP is another province where the number of incidents and casualties of heinous crimes are higher than the other provinces in the country. However, there is one thing common in Sindh and KP: the capital cities of both provinces are not as affected by heinous crimes as the rest of provinces are. Out of 77 casualties of heinous crimes in KP, Peshawar had only 3 casualties.
| Table 10: Casualties from heinous crimes in KP – May-December 2014 | |||||
| # | Districts | Number of events | Fatalities | Injured | Casualty |
| 1 | Hangu | 2 | 14 | 3 | 17 |
| 2 | Nowshera | 5 | 11 | 3 | 14 |
| 3 | Mansehra | 10 | 4 | 7 | 11 |
| 4 | Charsadda | 3 | 6 | 0 | 6 |
| 5 | Swat | 4 | 4 | 2 | 6 |
| 6 | Abbottabad | 1 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 7 | D.I. Khan | 3 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 8 | Kohat | 2 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 9 | Peshawar | 4 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 10 | Bannu | 3 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 11 | Takht Bhai | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 12 | Batkhela | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 13 | Battagram | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 14 | Karak | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 15 | Shabqadar | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 16 | Swabi | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 17 | Haripur | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Total | 44 | 57 | 18 | 75 | |
What makes KP different from all other provinces is the nature of heinous crimes committed there. Brutality and militancy are the two frequent sources the casualties of which were about 50% of the total casualties in the province while honor killing and violence against women together made up around 15% of the total casualties.
| Table 11: Heinous crimes in KP – May-December 2014 | |
| Nature of crime | Casualties |
| Brutality | 22 |
| Militancy | 16 |
| Honor killing | 10 |
| Patricide | 7 |
| Misuse of power | 5 |
| Intolerance | 3 |
| Juvenile crime | 3 |
| Male chauvinism | 3 |
| Matricide | 2 |
| Violence against women | 2 |
| Child abuse | 1 |
| Infanticide | 1 |
| Total | 75 |
Among the victims of heinous crimes, the highest number of casualties was of teenage boys and minor children (15), followed by brothers, mothers, sisters, nephew, parents, wives, married couples, brothers-in-law, cousin brothers, daughters, fathers, and sons. KP is the only province in the country where blood relatives and close relatives were half of the total number of perpetrators and the remaining were militants, close acquaintances, political activists, religious persons, and security personnel. Nearly 30% of the victims were targeted because of their vulnerability (27) followed by rivalries, fits of rage, love marriages, domestic issues, opposition to marriage, organizing musical events, and family disputes, among others.
Unlike other provinces, minor children were less affected in the province. The majority of them were either teenagers (12+ years), or a few were minors in the age group of 9-12 years. Note that we haven’t included in this report the most heinous crime of the terrorist attack on Army Public School in Peshawar as it was already covered in our annual report on violence for the year 2014. Nearly 70% of the victims of heinous crimes in the province were males while females were around 30%.
The methods used for committing heinous crimes in KP were different from other provinces as well. Nearly 60% of the victims were gunned down and in one case children of a village of Hangu were targeted by the militants using remote control bomb leaving six dead and three injured. Rapes, gang-rapes, murders, and armed attacks were also the methods that were used in committing such crimes. As compared to 21 affected districts of violence, the heinous crimes were reported from 17 districts (table 12).
| Table 12: Fatalities from violence and heinous crimes in KP – 2014 | ||||
| # | Districts | Number of heinous crime | Fatality-heinous | Fatality-violence |
| 1 | Peshawar | 4 | 2 | 428 |
| 2 | Hangu | 2 | 14 | 76 |
| 3 | Bannu | 3 | 2 | 61 |
| 4 | D.I. Khan | 3 | 3 | 61 |
| 5 | Kohat | 2 | 3 | 57 |
| 6 | Swat | 4 | 4 | 54 |
| 7 | Charsadda | 3 | 6 | 35 |
| 8 | Mardan | 0 | 0 | 30 |
| 9 | Nowshera | 5 | 11 | 26 |
| 10 | Dir | 0 | 0 | 26 |
| 11 | Swabi | 1 | 1 | 20 |
| 12 | Mansehra | 10 | 4 | 17 |
| 13 | Tank | 0 | 0 | 15 |
| 14 | Batkhela | 1 | 1 | 9 |
| 15 | Buner | 0 | 0 | 7 |
| 16 | Lakki Marwat | 0 | 0 | 7 |
| 17 | Alpuri (Shangla) | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| 18 | Abbottabad | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 19 | Battagram | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 20 | Karak | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 21 | Chitral | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 22 | Haripur | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 23 | Shabqadar | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 24 | Takht Bhai | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 25 | Daggar | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 26 | Dassu | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 27 | Pattan | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 28 | Timergara | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 29 | Tor Ghar | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Total | 44 | 57 | 944 | |
| Note 1: The heinous crime data is from all of May-December 2014. | ||||
| Note 2: The violence data is from all of 2014. | ||||
Heinous Crimes – AJK, Islamabad, FATA, and GB
AJK
One report of heinous crime from AJK appeared in the press during this period and it was committed against a 10 year old girl. The child was kidnapped and gang-raped.
Islamabad
The capital of the country with its high rate of literacy and lowest poverty rate was not safe from heinous crimes within its boundary. All in all, four cases of heinous crimes were reported from the capital.
| Table 13: Heinous crimes in Islamabad – May-December 2014 | ||
| Nature of crime | Incidents | Details |
| Violence against women | 1 | Rape and killed by step father |
| Child abuse | 1 | 10 year old seminary student, raped and strangulated |
| Infanticide | 1 | Thrown on the floor by father |
| Misuse of power | 1 | Rowdiness of the son of CDA chief |
| Total | 4 | |
FATA
The terror-ridden region of FATA has been in the headlines of the newspapers for acts of terrorism or counter terrorism. Since June 15, 2014, North Waziristan and Khyber Agencies have been the main area of military operations and it is often reported that the militants are on the run. Brief reports of heinous crimes do raise serious question about the law and order situation in the region. There were four cases of heinous crime and all of them were reported from Khyber Agency.
| Table 14: Heinous crimes in FATA – May-December 2014 | ||
| Nature of crime | Incidents | Details |
| Militancy | 1 | Two students, class 4 and 10, shot dead |
| 1 | One student, class 4, shot dead | |
| 1 | Tribesman beheaded in public, Landikotal | |
| Corporal Punishment | 1 | One woman lashed by members of LI |
| Total | 4 | |
The beheading took place on November 1, 2014.
GB
In GB, one case of heinous crime took place on November 14, 2014. The victim was an eight year boy brutally murdered by his friends.
CONCLUSION
In summary, this report highlights the nature of heinous crimes committed throughout the country during May to December 2014. Punjab was the highest affected. Note that the data is only for eight months, and it is based on the reports that appeared in the local English newspaper like The News, Dawn, and the Express Tribune. For statistical analysis, in many cases, smaller number of samples can be enough to identify patterns.
| Table 15: Provincial districts affected by heinous and violent crimes – May-December 2014 | ||
| Province | Number of districts affected by | |
| Heinous crime | Violent crime | |
| Punjab | 35 | 29 |
| Balochistan | 9 | 26 |
| KP | 17 | 21 |
| Sindh | 6 | 16 |
| Note 1: The heinous crime data is from all of May-December 2014. | ||
| Note 2: The violence data is from all of 2014. | ||
Nationally, four types of heinous crimes dominate. These include violence against women, honor killings, various forms of brutality, and violence stemming from intolerance. On the provincial level, the primary forms of heinous crimes are as follows:
| Table 16: Primary forms of heinous crimes by province – May-December 2014 | |
| Province | Primary forms of heinous crime |
| Punjab | Violence against women, honor killings, brutality, and misuse of power |
| Balochistan | Intolerance, violence against women, tribal feuds, and honor killings |
| Sindh | Honor killings, violence against women, brutality, and child abuse |
| KP | Brutality, honor killings, male chauvinism, militancy |
The variations in the nature of crimes at different provinces are indicative of the social behavior and attitudes in that particular location. Two crimes, violence against women and honor killings, are common in all provinces except KP. There were some cases of honor killing in KP but no incident of violence against women. However, militancy is one of the primary sources of heinous crime in the KP, a pattern noticeable in the Khyber Agency of FATA as well.
In Punjab and Balochistan, a large number of crimes are committed against women in terms of number of events. When we look at the number of casualties of heinous crimes, the male/female percentage is different. Female victims appear to be the highest in Punjab.
| Table 17: Victims of heinous crimes by gender – May-December 2014 | ||
| Province | Male | Female |
| Punjab | 37 | 92 |
| Balochistan | 3 | 8 |
| KP | 15 | 21 |
| Sindh | 12 | 5 |
Punjab also has the highest number of minors and infant children as victims of heinous crimes. All provinces except Balochistan experienced heinous crimes committed against children.
| Table 18: Victims of heinous crimes against children – May-December 2014 | |
| Province | Number of incidents |
| Punjab | 27 |
| Balochistan | 5 |
| KP | 4 |
| Sindh | 2 |
| FATA | 2 |
| AJK | 1 |
| GB | 1 |
| Total | 42 |
The majority of the perpetrators of heinous crimes were those who had some sort of relation or acquaintance with the victims. However, in case of Punjab and KP, some other actors were also involved. Further research is needed to analyze the social patterns that encourage generally non-criminal people to indulge in criminal acts.
| Table 19: Perpetrators’ relations victims of heinous crimes – May-December 2014 | ||||
| Perpetrators’ relation with victims | Casualties | |||
| Punjab | Balochistan | Sindh | KP | |
| Blood relations | 37 | 12 | 6 | 22 |
| Close acquaintance | 28 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| Close relatives | 55 | 2 | 15 | 14 |
| Distant acquaintance | 32 | 34 | 3 | 0 |
| Militants | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14 |
| Political activists | 5 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Religious persons | 5 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Security Personnel | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Unknown | 41 | 12 | 9 | 15 |
| Total | 205 | 60 | 35 | 75 |
The academia, researchers, and the government need to look into these issues closely to understand real causes behind them and devise policies that can minimize occurrences of such crimes in the society.
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[1] Close relatives = cousin, uncle, aunt, husband, wife
[2] Blood relations = father, mother, son, daughter, sister, brother
[3] Electronic version available on the CRSS website (https://crss.pk///story/annual-security-report-2014/), and hard copies available in our Islamabad head office free of cost.