“A peaceful ride home turned into a scene of pure terror when armed robbers ambushed a couple near a motorway—looting them, tying up the husband, and subjecting the wife to a horrific assault in a nearby field.”
Faisalabad has been rocked by yet another brutal highway crime, as a woman was gang-raped in front of her helpless husband after they were ambushed by armed robbers in the Sandal Bar area.
The nightmare unfolded on March 25, 2025, when the couple was returning home from Agriculture University Hostel on a motorcycle. According to the FIR, two gunmen intercepted them near a motorway bridge, stripped them of valuables, and dragged the husband into a sugarcane field—where they bound and immobilized him. The wife was then forced into the same field, where a third assailant, described as tall and muscular, arrived on a motorcycle to join the attack.
Desperate and shattered, the husband searched for the criminals himself before finally reporting the horror to police. Authorities have since confirmed that the victim’s medical examination has been completed, with DNA samples sent for forensic testing. A case has been registered, and police have detained three suspects through geofencing.
This shocking assault echoes past nightmares—in August 2024, a woman was raped in Faisalabad’s Chak No. 34 JB in a carbon-copy attack. And in 2020, Pakistan was shaken to its core when a mother of two was gang-raped on the motorway in front of her children after her car ran out of fuel.
Despite national outrage and repeated calls for public executions of rapists, Pakistan’s conviction rate for sexual crimes remains a dismal 3%. Legal and international trade barriers continue to stall stricter punishments, leaving countless victims without justice.
Police Arrested Prime Suspect
The Punjab police have arrested the prime suspect in the alleged gang-rape of a woman near the Faisalabad motorway, police said on Friday.
The suspect, identified as Ali Sher, was apprehended within hours of the incident, according to police.
