Another Zainab assaulted, tortured before being killed in Charsadda: Police

In another horrifying case of sexual violence in Pakistan, a two-and-a-half-year-old girl was first abducted, assaulted and tortured before being killed, Charsadda police said on Thursday.

As per Residents and Police, the minor girl, identified as Zainab, had gone missing on Tuesday evening in Sheikh Kallay Qilla area while playing with other children outside her house.

The body of the girl was found on Wednesday lying in Jabba Korona area. The Prang and Daudzai police recovered the body and shifted it to the Lady Reading Hospital in Peshawar for postmortem.

Express Tribune citing its sources reported that the minor was raped 18 hours ago, after which the girl's upper and lower torso were slashed with a knife.

DNA samples of the girl have been sent to the Khyber Medical College, Peshawar.

District Police Officer (DPO) Charsadda Mohammad Shoaib Khan said that police had initially registered a first information report (FIR) in the Prang police station, Charsadda, against unknown kidnappers on the complaint of the girl's father.

Section 302 (punishment for murder) of the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC) was added to the FIR after the body was found, he said.

Meanwhile, Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Mehmood Khan has ordered the IGP and other officials to immediately arrest those involved in the incident.

The KP chief minister said that the incident was very heartbreaking and inhumane, and those involved in the henious crime would be made an example out of.