ISLAMABAD: A Swedish woman working for UN in Islamabad was raped earlier this week by a guard employed at her home, a senior police official confirmed on Wednesday, saying the suspect was at large.
The woman told police that the guard entered her bedroom, tried to suffocate her and raped her when she lost consciousness at her home in the G6/4 sector on the night of Monday, said police official Munir Ahmed.
The woman identified her attacker as a guard named Muhammad Safeer. A first information report (FIR) has been filed under sections 376 and 377 of the Pakistan Penal Code, which deals with rape.
The FIR states that the guard was posted at the officer’s residence in March.
The complainant, who has been employed as a fellow with an international humanitarian organization since January, is a Swedish national, according to the police report. As to the complaint, the woman was sleeping when her guard attacked and overpowered her, subsequently committing a sexual assault.
“I managed to convince him [attacker] to turn my bedside light on and then I could see it was guard Muhammad Safeer,” the woman was quoted in the police report as saying. “I also recognized his voice.”
“I want legal action against the man that raped me. I ask for justice,” she said.
A spokesperson for the agency where the woman works declined comment on the case.
Activists say heinous sexual crimes are on the rise in Pakistan.
