‘If a woman is killed, they say she fell, she took poison’: Pakistan’s devastating rise in ‘hidden’ sexual violence

Source: www.theguardian.com · Section: headlines · Bias: Center-Left · Published: Mon, 13 Jul 2026 05:00:38 GMT

Karachi’s chief police surgeon condemns increasing acceptance of domestic murders and rapes of women and girlsA white-bearded man looks straight into the camera, in the video circulating for the past few weeks on social media. “I killed my wife,” he says calmly in Urdu. “We have a give-and-take arrangement and when she refused to give, I said I would take.”Hours earlier, the 64-year-old had walked into a police station in Karachi’s Orangi neighbourhood and confessed to murdering Asma Begum, a 58-year-old mother of four, in the home they shared because she had refused him sex. Continue reading...

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