Pakistan's Police chief ‘victim blames’ mother who was gang-raped 

<p>Following a statement from Pakistan's lead police investigator, Chief Umar Sheikh, who suggested a mother was at fault for being gang-raped on one of Pakistan's most secure highways, several protests are planned across the country and there are calls for the police investigator's resignation and an apology.&nbsp;</p> <p>According to investigators,&nbsp;the victim was assaulted and gang-raped by several men in front of her two children after she ran out of petrol outside of Lahore.</p> <p>Sheikh blamed the mother for her assault on&nbsp;one of Pakistan’s most secure highways, claiming that she should have driven with a male companion.“No-one in Pakistani society would allow their sisters and daughter to travel alone so late”, Sheikh claimed.</p> <p>He further blamed the mother, a France resident, stating she “mistook that Pakistani society is just as safe” as her home country, stating she should have taken a safer highway called the GT.</p> <p>However, the highway the victim chose to take was built to replace centuries-old GT road, it is equipped with CCTV and a dedicated police force and when she ran out of fuel she contacted that same police force.</p> <p>Khadija Siddiqi, a lawyer and human rights activists stated&nbsp;that the police chief's comments were part of an unfortunate and very rampant culture of victim-blaming in Pakistan.</p> <p>Read more from the <u><a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8721957/Critics-condemned-Paki…">Daily Mail</a></u> and <u><a href="http://https://www.reuters.com/article/us-pakistan-rape/pakistanis-outr…">Reuters</a></u></p> <p>&nbsp;</p>