Reports from the district of Nasirabad said the women were killed because three of them wanted to get married without the approval of their families.

Last week two senators caused uproar by suggesting that the killings were a matter of tribal tradition.

Women’s rights groups have expressed outrage over the incident.

According to reports from Balochistan, three women between 18-20 years of age from the Imrani tribe were abducted by tribesmen who had heard about their plans to marry without family consent.

Two older women who tried to help the would-be brides were also kidnapped.

The reports say the women were all shot, thrown into a ditch and then buried, even though they were still alive.

On Friday a female senator raised the case in the national parliament in Islamabad.

ow the Senate has passed a formal resolution on the deaths.

“This house condemns the brutal murder of five women in Balochistan’s Nasirabad district and calls for strong action to be taken against the culprits,” the statement said.

It called on the Senate’s human rights committee “to produce a comprehensive report on the incident in one month”.

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Apparently, woman-on-woman sexual assault in correctional facilities is extremely unusual and is being handled with great secrecy by the department.

The alleged victim, claims that someone entered her cell in the 1000 bed facility while she was asleep, sometime before 6am on July 3. She says the intruder(s) bound and gagged her with bedsheets and then proceeded to assault her with a dido-like object.

The incident was reported at 7:30am and the victim was transported to a local hospital.

What remains to be answered, is how did the intruder gain access to her cell since she did not share her cell with anyone, and why was she assaulted?

One source suggests that the woman was targeted in a power play by another inmate anxious to flex her muscles.

Correction Department spokesman Stephen Morello said:

“We do not tolerate any type of sexual abuse by anyone in the jails. For more than five years, we have engaged in a campaign to prevent it.”

The DA’s office declined to comment.

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