Dubai: In yet another case of violence against women, a Pakistani husband has been accused of beating and shaving the head of his wife for refusing to dance in front of his friends.
The incident came to to light after the wife with shaved head posted her video on social medial appealing for justice from authorities and seeking help from the public.
Reacting to the alleged incident of torture, the Punjab Inspector General of Police (IGP), Amjad Javed Saleemi, on Wednesday, ordered immediate action against the accused.
According to the First Information Report, the woman’s husband of four years and his friends had stripped her naked, beaten her with pipes and shaved her head over her refusal to dance for them.
According to reports, a woman in Lahore claimed in a video that she was tortured and her head was shaved by her husband after she refused to dance in front of his friends.
The woman, who identified herself as Asma Aziz, claimed her husband, Mian Faisal, also threatened to strangle her when she refused to dance in front of them.
She alleged that her husband loved her a lot when they got married four years ago but then his behaviour towards her changed. She further alleged that he started beating her while under the influence of alcohol and also regularly invited his ‘vulgar’ friends to their house to party.
Asma said that she managed to escape from the house at one point and went to the police station but they refused to register the case without a bribe.
In the video, Asma appealed to the public for help as she said that her parents were dead and she has no one to stand by her.
Asma’s case is not unique; violence against women is still quite common in Pakistan.
According to a report by the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, more than 2,500 cases of violence against women in all of Pakistan were reported last year.
According to the Punjab Commission on the Status of Women (PCSW) data, in 2018, 3,860 women called the helpline after suffering domestic violence. Similarly, 5,320 women called to report cases of sexual harassment.
