THE horrific incident of a woman allegedly gang-raped in front of her husband and three-year-old daughter near Sukheki in Hafizabad district, Punjab, the other day is but one more reminder of our society’s failure to protect women from the savagery of the heartless brutes living amongst us. The event, which brings back gruesome memories of the Sialkot Motorway rape case from 2020, underlines how vulnerable women are outside their homes, and even in the presence of their families. Thousands of women and young girls are sexually abused and violated across the country every year but only a fraction of........

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