Woman sexually harassed on the streets of Lahore, Pakistan

Woman sexually harassed on the streets of Lahore, Pakistan

In the Gulshan-i-Ravi area, a young man stripped himself from his clothes in front of a woman standing outside of her home. The young man subsequently fled the scene.

The man had been stalking the woman for some time already. His gross act was recorded by a closed-circuit TV (CCTV) camera, but the poor quality of the equipment prevented the police from identifying the offender or the registration number of his bike. 

Nevertheless, the footage shows the man approaching the woman and stripping himself of his clothes, getting half-naked in front of her. Shocked, the woman rushed inside her house, returning with her husband by her side, but in the meantime, the offender had already fled the scene.

Police confirmed the incident after they had obtained the footage of this CCTV camera, which turned out to be of little use. Still, a case was registered against the unidentifiable man on complaint of the woman’s husband.

The footage went viral on social media, reminding people of the recent harassment cases of women at Greater Iqbal Park & Minar-i-Pakistan Park. A lawyer, Ghulam Mustafa Chaudhry, regretted that the laws covering acts of sexuall harassment did not provide a strict punishment for perpetrators of such heinous acts against women (Dawn, 2021).


Dawn (2021, September 19) “Pervert harasses woman in Lahore street” https://www.dawn.com/news/1647111.