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    A 13th Child Is Raped And Murdered — And A Pakistani City Is Up In Arms

    The murder and rape of 7-year-old Zainab Amin caused a political crisis aimed at officials, whom they accused of failing to protect the children of Kasur.
    by Diaa Hadid Feb 01, 2018 5 minutes
    Images of Zainab are strung outside her home in Kasur. The message on the poster: "Protest. Protest. Protest. Daughter Zainab, we are ashamed. But if not now, then never. Zainab, in light of your martyrdom, we will seek accountability for all similar events in the past. We will not rest without that."

    In January, 7-year-old Zainab Amin's parents were on a religious pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia when their relatives from home in Pakistan called with the news: Their daughter didn't make it to her evening Qur'an lesson, and they were searching frantically for her.

    "Stay where you are," the father, Amin Ansari, recalls a relative telling him. "Your prayers are answered there."

    Her mother, Nusrat, says she sat in the Prophet Mohammed's mosque in Medina, praying: "Oh God, keep Zainab safe and protected. Oh God, I have come to your door like a beggar. Oh God, please do not send me away empty- handed."

    Once famed for its Sufi shrines, Kasur, Pakistan, is now synonymous with darkness. During a period of two years, at least 13 children have been raped and killed in this city of less than a million people in Punjab, Pakistan's most populous state.

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