Data collected for the month of July, 2014 suggests that heinous crimes[1] are on the rise, up from 33 in June to 35 in July. This also indicates that such crimes more than doubled in July when compared with about 14 in the month of May. Punjab tops the list with reported number of 14 cases of heinous crimes followed by 11 cases in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), six in the southern Sind and four in the southwestern Balochistan province.
Meanwhile, Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK), Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), and Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) are the least affected areas with no occurrence of any such incident in the month under review. The documented casualties for the month of July are 57 i.e. 31 killed and 26 injured.
The number of those killed in Punjab as a result of heinous crimes was 14, followed by six in Sind.
This report includes following offences as heinous crimes, using open source information.
- Brutality
- Child abuse:
- Crime by a teenager:
- Exploitation:
- Family Rift:
- Honor Killing:
- Intolerance:
- Male domination:
- Misuse of power:
- Religious extremism:
- Sectarianism:
- Terrorism against children:
- Violence against women:
Heinous Crimes – Statistical Overview
| Province | No. of cases | ||
| Month | May-14 | Jun-14 | Jul-14 |
| Balochistan | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| Khyber Pakhtunkhwa | 4 | 6 | 11 |
| Punjab | 9 | 20 | 14 |
| Islamabad Capital Territory | 1 | 1 | |
| Sindh | 0 | 2 | 6 |
| Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) | 0 | 1 | |
| Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) | 0 | 2 | |
| Total | 16 | 33 | 35 |
Brutality:
| Date | Source | City | Province | Root Cause | Narrative |
| 25-Jul-14 | The News | Gujrat | Punjab | Brutality | Ghulam Mustafa of Chak Bhulla village cut both arms of Tabassum over a dispute with his father.The landlord set an unprecedented example of tyranny as he put the boy’s arms in a harvester machine. |
| 28-Jul-14 | The News | Lahore, Batapur | Punjab | Brutality | At least six brick kiln labourers were severely tortured allegedly by a kiln owner and his accomplices in the Batapur area |
Child abuse:
- Child rapes and murders
| Date | Source | City | Province | Root Cause | Narrative |
| 15-Jul-14 | Express Tribune | Multan | Punjab | Child abuse | Police on Monday arrested a man from Lahore, who is suspected of being involved in the rape and murder of an eight-year-old boy. |
| 18-Jul-14 | The News | D.I. Khan | Khyber Pakhtunkhwa | Child abuse | The remains of a nine-year-old rape and murder victim were exhumed from a graveyard in DI Khan on Thursday. DNA samples and other tests will be sent to Islamabad. |
| 1-Aug-14 | The News | Sahiwal | Punjab | Child abuse | Police have arrested a madrassah teacher for raping a 12-year-old girl in Sahiwal on Thursday. |
Crime by a teenager:
- 11 year boy booked for kidnaping case
| Date | Source | City | Province | Root Cause | Narrative |
| 7-Jul-14 | Express Tribune | Khairpur | Sindh | Crime | A young boy, 11 year old, was booked in a kidnapping case by the police and a hearing was held before additional district and sessions judge |
Exploitation:
- Private jails run by Faith Healer and Landlords.
| Date | Source | City | Province | Root Cause | Narrative |
| 17-Jul-14 | The News | Haripur | Khyber Pakhtunkhwa | Exploitation | The Haripur Police raided a compound being used as a private jail by a faith healer Ilyas Qadri and recovered 115 persons bound in chains tied to the floors of six barracks. |
| 21-Jul-14 | The News | Hafizabad | Punjab | Exploitation | The police on Sunday recovered 100 people, including 30 women and 25 minor children, from a bonded labour-cum-torture cell of influential landlords at Kot Ladha village. Influential landlords Saifullah, Mushtaq Ahmad and Muhammad Asif had built a brick kiln and also established a ‘beggar camp’ adjacent to Kot Ladha police station premises since long. |
| 28-Jul-14 | The News | Gujranwala | Punjab | Exploitation | A bailiff recovered 23 people, including women and children, from the illegal custody of brick kiln owners at Machike Sindhwan. |
Family Rift:
- A man strangulates 8 year old niece
| Date | Source | City | Province | Root Cause | Narrative |
| 2-Jul-14 | Express Tribune | Faisalabad | Punjab | Family Rift | A man on Monday strangulated his 8 year old niece over a family rift. |
Honor killing:
- A couple was shot dead by relatives for free will marriage
- A man killed his teenage sister on suspicion of relationship
| Date | Source | City | Province | Root Cause | Narrative |
| 6-Jul-14 | Express Tribune | Nowshera | Khyber Pakhtunkhwa | Honor Killing | A couple was shot dead by relatives for marrying without their consent here on Friday. |
| 28-Jul-14 | Express Tribune | Charsadda | Khyber Pakhtunkhwa | Honor Killing | In an apparent case of honour killing, a man killed his teenage sister Zubaida in Dildar Ghari, Charsadda on Saturday over suspicions that she was in a relationship. |
Intolerance:
- A teenage boy was gunned down by co-workers
- A group lawyers beat up an aged man and his son
| Date | Source | City | Province | Root Cause | Narrative |
| 3-Jul-14 | The News | Karachi | Sindh | Intolerance | A teenage boy was gunned down by his co-workers over a petty issue at a factory in Orangi Town |
| 5-Jul-14 | Express Tribune | Lahore | Punjab | Intolerance | A group of lawyers severely beat up an aged man and his son on the premises of the district and sessions court |
Male domination:
- Tribal elders disallows women to collect food aid
| Date | Source | City | Province | Root Cause | Narrative |
| 22-Jul-14 | The News | Bannu | Khyber Pakhtunkhwa | Male Domination | Some tribal elders in Bannu have decreed that families fleeing a military offensive should not allow women to collect food aid, an elder said on Monday after Reuters saw him attacking women. |
Misuse of power:
- PMLN MPA thrashed on-duty policemen
- Ex-Nazim gun down a woman and daughter
| Date | Source | City | Province | Root Cause | Narrative |
| 20-Jul-14 | Dawn | Faisalabad | Punjab | Misuse of power | Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz MPA Rana Shoaib Idrees allegedly attacked Khurrianwala police station along with his supporters, thrashed three on-duty policemen and freed a man arrested from his outhouse in a raid. |
| 22-Jul-14 | Express Tribune | Nowshera | Khyber Pakhtunkhwa | Misuse of power | A domestic dispute turned violent on Monday as a woman and daughter were gunned down allegedly by a former nazim of Pirpai and his sons. |
Religious extremism:
- Angry mob killed one pregnant woman and two minors belonging to Ahmadi family
- Police and religious zealots raided the office of Urdu magazine on blasphemy accusation
| Date | Source | City | Province | Root Cause | Narrative |
| 28-Jul-14 | Express Tribune | Gujranwala | Punjab | Religious Extremism | Three members of the same family including one woman and two minors were killed and eight other people were injured when an angry mob set a house on fire in Arafat Colony, |
| 24-Jul-14 | BBC | Lahore | Punjab | Religious Extremism | A contingent of police arrived [at the office of a Urdu magazine, Naya Zaman] with a dozen religious activists, people [Mohammad] Adil [Editor of the magazine] simply calls maulvis – teachers of Islamic law. They waved a book at him that he had published seven years ago – an autobiography of a Lahore High Court judge, titled My Journey to the Higher Court. The author, Justice Mohammed Islam Bhatti, had written that he belonged to the Ahmedi faith – a former Muslim sect |
Sectarianism:
- SHO was directed by the court not harass Ahmadis
| Date | Source | City | Province | Root Cause | Narrative |
| 10-Jul-14 | Express Tribune | Lahore | Punjab | Sectarianism | An additional district and sessions judge on Tuesday directed the Sabzazar station house officer (SHO) not to harass eight citizens apparently on account of their being Ahmadis |
Terrorism against children:
- Exploding bomb to kill children
| Date | Source | City | Province | Root Cause | Narrative |
| 18-Jul-14 | The News | Hangu | Khyber Pakhtunkhwa | Terrosim against Children | Unidentified persons had planted explosives at the Hangu-Orakzai road in Dorari Banda and triggered the explosion with a remote control. The children of the village rushed to the site of the blast where the terrorists exploded another bomb, leaving six of them dead. Three other kids sustained injuries in the blast. |
Violence against women:
- Wife stoned to death
- Husband along with his mother chopped off nose of his wife
- Gang rape
- Court take notice of a girl strangulated by her brothers
- Wife burnt alive by her husband
- Gang rape in front of parents
- A man killed his two pregnant cousins and injured another
- Acid attack in Quetta
- Women paraded naked
- Acid attack in Sadiqabad
- Acid attack in Pishin
| Date | Source | City | Province | Root Cause | Narrative |
| 2-Jul-14 | The News | Lahore | Punjab | Violence against women | A 30-year-old woman was bricked to death by her husband in the Sundar area on Tuesday. |
| 3-Jul-14 | Express Tribune | Mingora | Khyber Pakhtunkhwa | Violence against women | A husband along with his mother chopped off nose of his wife and kept her in captivity. |
| 3-Jul-14 | Dawn | Vehari | Punjab | Violence against women | A 20-year-old girl, who was allegedly abducted and gang-raped on Tuesday night, died due to excessive bleeding at a quack’s clinic in Chak-188/EB. |
| 11-Jul-14 | The News | Sahiwal | Punjab | Violence against women | The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Wednesday took notice of a press report on administrative side that a girl was strangled by two of her brothers and a brother-in-law for marrying by choice in Sahiwal District. |
| 13-Jul-14 | Dawn | Multan | Punjab | Violence against women | Rehman beat his wife, doused her in kerosene oil and set her on fire. |
| 16-Jul-14 | Express Tribune | Sukkur | Sindh | Violence against women | Seven men broke into Paryal’s house in Memon Mohallah in Rasoolabad Town. Paryal reported the burglerly but didn’t report gang rape incident. A couple of days later, the police arrested two suspects identified as Rafiq Sahito and Saleem Sahito. During the investigation, they were going through the suspects cell phones and found videos of the gang rape. They went and asked Paryal if the women of his family had been raped as the act had been recorded on the perpetrators’ cell phones. |
| 18-Jul-14 | The News | Gujrat | Punjab | Violence against women | A man on Thursday shot and killed his two pregnant cousins and injured another. Zaryab Ali and two of his friends broke into the house of his uncle and shot three of his cousins. He said the man had a marriage dispute with the family. |
| 22-Jul-14 | Express Tribune | Quetta | Balochistan | Violence against women | Unidentified men travelling on two motorcycles attacked four women, one of them a teenager, outside a jewelry shop with acid in the Kili Kamalo area on the outskirts of Quetta |
| 27-Jul-14 | The News | Multan | Punjab | Violence against women | A woman and her teenaged daughter were stripped and paraded naked by the sons of a landlord over a land dispute on Saturday, witnesses and the women said. |
| 1-Aug-14 | Dawn | Rahim Yar Khan | Punjab | Violence against women | The two women, Momina and her daughter Amina, were inside their residence in the Satellite Town area of Sadiqabad when five men hurled acid-filled plastic bags into the house. Consequently, the faces and hands of the women were injured |
| 1-Aug-14 | Dawn | Pishin | Balochistan | Violence against women | Six women were injured in an acid attack in Balochistan’s Pishin district, a senior administration officer said. |
[1] Random House Webster’s College dictionary 1991 defines heinous crimes as those that feature remarkably gruesome odious circumstances that take one’s breath away. In Heinous Crime: Cases, Causes, and Consequences Frederic G. Reamer says “Heinous crimes typically involve some kind of extra ordinary personal injury or death. Prominent heinous crimes include murder, forcible rape and sexual molestation, aggravated or felonious assault, robbery and first-degree arson.”