LAHORE:

Sahil, an organisation monitoring gender-based violence, has reported a significant rise in crimes against women across Pakistan during the first eleven months of 2025 in its annual report.

The report has been compiled from data published in 81 national newspapers spanning all four provinces, the Islamabad Capital Territory, Azad Jammu and Kashmir, and Gilgit-Baltistan.

It shows that 6,543 incidents were reported in 2025, compared with 5,253 cases in 2024. This reflects an increase of nearly twenty-five percent over one year.

The incidents documented between January and November 2025 include 1,414 cases of murder, 1,144 of abduction, 1,060 of physical assault, 649 suicide cases, and 585 cases of rape.

The data further indicates that in 32 percent of the rape cases, the perpetr

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