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Asia

Horror of child abuse finally out in the open in Muslim Pakistan

Stream of sexual attacks make headline news in a traditional Muslim nation that is being forced to open its eyes to heinous crimes

An anti-rape protest in Lahore last month. Photo: AFP

In a rural village in Pakistan's eastern rice belt, two teenage sisters left for school one recent day on a muddy village path far too narrow for cars.

Within hours, they were dead, their bodies left facedown along a swampy canal after they had been raped and shot multiple times. By the next morning, their deaths were news across Pakistan, the latest in a grisly stream of sexual attacks on minors.