An eight-year-old girl was burnt alive after being raped in Pakistan’s Punjab province, a brutal incident which triggered protests in the province. A large number of people of Chichawatni, Sahiwal district, some 200-km from Lahore, held a demonstration and blocked the main G.T
Road for several hours to lodge their protest against the brutal incident. On the assurance of police that claimed to have arrested a suspect the protesters dispersed. According to police, the grade-II student of the government girls high school Chic-hawatni went missing on Su-nday after she left home to buy some sweets from a grocery shop. When she did not return after a while, her family members and neighbours held a search.