Kainat Soomro

Female, Person

1994 –

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Who is Kainat Soomro?

Kainat Soomro is a Pakistani woman whose struggle to obtain justice for her gang rape at the age of 13 drew international attention. Kainat was steadfast in her determination to obtain justice against her alleged attackers.

In 2007, Soomro claims that she stopped in to a local store to buy a toy for her niece while walking home from school. It was here that she alleges that she was drugged, kidnapped, and subsequently gang-raped by four men, among them a father and son. Soomro claims to have escaped three days after being taken captive.

After receiving his daughter back into his home, Soomro's father was allegedly rebuffed by the police, and a local tribunal determined her to be kari, a "black female", having lost her virginity outside of marriage. Soomro was potentially subject to karo kari, synonymous to honor killing; however, this notion was rejected by her father, brother, and mother. Soomro's family fled to Karachi fearing the subsequent backlash of this ruling, however being subject to several attacks.

Defiant of traditional norms, Soomro took her alleged perpetrators to court where the judge ultimately ruled that they were innocent, stating that "There is no corroborative evidence available on record. The sole testimony of the alleged rape survivor is not sufficient." Kainat worked with the group WAR, War Against Rape, to try to bring her attackers to justice.

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Born
1994

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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