Two foreigners booked for ‘raping, groping’ girls in Islamabad

Two foreigners have been booked for ‘raping and groping’ girls in the federal capital Islamabad in separate incidents.

A Lodhran girl aged 16 lodged a police complaint after being subjected to rape multiple times by a Chinese citizen, who is the owner of a Chinese company in the federal capital. The copy of the First Information Report (FIR) was obtained by News360.

The girl, a Class 9 student, stated in the FIR that the Chinese citizen namely Qiming Zheng S/O Guangong subjected her to rape multiple times after she was recruited for a part time job at his company in May 2021.

She said that four more girls were employed at his company. The victim said that Zheng started harassing her just after her employment and later in January, he started raping her. She said that she got afraid of severe consequences as she was threatened and she did not tell anyone about the continous rape at the workplace.

After being raped multiple times, the girl got pregnant and told the happenings to her family. In her complaint, she sought protection from police and action against the Chinese citizen.

In another incident, a foreigner and his friends were booked for allegedly sexually harassing a girl and threatening her and her father in a market, according to Dawn News.

The incident took place in F-11 Markaz when a man touched a girl inappropriately even after he was asked by her father not to do so.

A case was registered with Shalimar police station in response to a complaint lodged by the victim.

According to the first information report (FIR), the suspect was intoxicated when he committed the crime and did so in front of the victim’s father and the shopkeeper.

After the victim called police, the man along with his two friends rushed towards a car. However, they were stopped by people who had witnessed the incident. Police reached the spot and shifted the accused to the police station. According to the FIR, the man kept on saying that he was a diplomat of an Arab country and even threatened the girl at the police station.

When contacted, the investigating officer, Nasarullah, said one of three persons had been arrested in connection with the case.

When the officer was asked from which country the man hailed from, Mr Nasarullah expressed his ignorance and said he did not ask him. When he was asked what position he held in the embassy, the police official said the man, who was arrested by the police, was not a diplomat.

The acting public relations officer was not available for comments while the head of the Police Public Relations Branch, upon being contacted, said he was awaiting feedback from the deputy inspector general of police security in relation to the case.

DIG Security Hasan Raza Khan could not be reached while SDPO and SHO Shalimar were also unavailable.