Federal Minister for Planning, Development and Special Initiatives AsadUmar has said that though the remarks of Lahore CCPO Umar Sheikh regardingthe victim of the Lahore motorway were unnecessary, they were not illegal.
While talking to a news channel, he said Sheikh’s remarks were unnecessaryas it is the right of every Pakistani to travel wherever they please,whenever they please. He said he does not agree with the CCPO’s statement.
But, he asked what action can be taken against him. “Can we say you didn’tmake a good statement and take action?” Umar said.
On Wednesday, two men raped a woman at gunpoint when she ran out of fuelnear Lahore’s Gujjarpura and was waiting along with her children for helpon the motorway.
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The two men broke her car window and made her park on the roadside. Theythen took her and the children to a nearby forest and raped her. Later on,they robbed her of valuables which included Rs100,000 cash and jewelry.
