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Alleged rape victim in Islamabad was not a Belgian citizen
ISLAMABAD: The news report of an alleged foreign woman found in Islamabad who claimed she was a citizen of Belgium and was sexually assaulted turned out to be false.
Several media outlets had comprehensively reported that a foreigner woman, who claimed that she was citizen of Belgium, was held in confinement for five days and was subjected to sexual assault.
It was later revealed that the woman turned out to be a permanent resident of Rawalpindi. The woman was found bound and gagged on a roadside at G-6/1-3. She had introduced herself as a Belgian national and alleged that she had been living with a man who repeatedly raped her.
Daily Dawn reported that police formed a special committee had been formed under the supervision of a senior superintendent of police (SSP), comprising the subdivisional police officer, station house officers of Aabpara and women police stations and an official from the Special Sexual Offence Investigation Unit after the investigators remained clueless to establish the nationality of the woman who claimed to be from Belgium.
The committee took the woman to the NADRA headquarters for identification as no travel record was available with the FIA and the embassy. Through her facial recognition and fingerprint impression, the woman was identified as a Pakistani national and a permanent resident of Rawalpindi.
The medico-legal examination of the woman was conducted at Polyclinic to establish her allegation that she was raped. She was then shifted to the Women Police Station and kept under protective custody there.
Police said the woman is not willing to give a statement to the police which are working to ascertain the motive behind her claim to be a foreign national and under which circumstances she was left on the roadside. The woman was unable to produce any identity document as she had no belongings with her.
The Belgian embassy in Islamabad also stated police have claimed that the alleged victim is NOT a Belgian citizen. It refused further comment in order to not interfere with the investigation.
