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July 25, 2021 Recently, a sessions court in Karachi has sentenced a man to 14 years in prison after he was found guilty of raping his eight-year-old daughter a couple of years ago. According to Cruel Numbers 2020, eight children get sexually abused every day in Pakistan, while the conviction rate in such cases is less than three per cent. Of all these, reportage of the incest is a rare sight and a painful process explicitly for the victims and for the naked eyes. Let’s take a stride through the trial of this case to understand it. The incident On Thursday, March 7, 2019, Zakiya*, a young m...

5 Min Read KARACHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - It is two months since Shazia underwent a so-called virginity test during a rape examination at a Karachi hospital, but the Pakistani teenager is still visibly traumatised. She winces as she describes how the doctor carried out the “two-finger test” (TFT), in which a doctor inserts fingers into the vagina, ostensibly to determine if a woman or girl is sexually active. “She put her finger and then something else inside me. I screamed loudly as it hurt a lot and told her to stop, but she continued and said angrily that I will just have to ...