Summary Police while taking action has registered a case against the suspect.
DERA GHAZI KHAN (Dunya News) – Police have arrested a suspected child abuser after Dunya News uncovered the scandal in Taunsa Sharif district of Dera Ghazi Khan on Saturday.
According to Chief Minister (CM) Usman Buzdar s spokesperson Shahbaz Gul, the CM s controversial picture with suspect Adnan Zafar which went viral on social media was not taken recently and the matter "is about two years old".
"Often, people take selfies with the CM," he went on to say.
He further stated that police have lodged an FIR against the suspect by contacting the victims families.
According to district police officer (DPO), Dera Ghazi Khan s Superintendent of Police (Investigation) would lead further investigation into the matter.
The horrendous incident has occurred in the native area of CM Usman Buzdar.
It has been revealed that the suspect was blackmailing the families of the children through their pornography videos.
The family members of affectees have claimed that the accused Adnan Zafar had been threatening them while showing them his photograph with CM Usman Buzdar.
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They have claimed that the suspect had made videos of at least 19 children and also took extortion money from them.
Moreover, the father of the suspect had been serving in Punjab police force as a head constable and according to sources, he has been suspended on the orders of DPO after reporting of the matter.
Child sexual abuse incidents in Kasur
Kasur had last attained local and international notoriety last year when the incident of rape and murder of six-year-old Zainab Amin came to light. It was the 12th such incident to occur within a 10 kilometre radius in Kasur in one year and had sparked outrage and protests across the country.
In February 2017, an anti-terrorism court handed down death penalty to Imran Ali on four counts after he was found guilty of rape and murder of Zainab and six other minor girls. A fine of one million rupees was also slapped on the convict alongside a sum of one million as blood money.
He was later hanged in the Kot Lakhpat Jail Lahore on October 17 last year.
Later in February 2018, ATC acquitted at least 12 men of child sex abuse and blackmail charges in Kasur in a massive paedophilia scandal that rocked the country in August 2015.
The abuse and extortion scandal, which authorities have called the largest in Pakistan’s history, allegedly involved hundreds of victims in Punjab province.
Two of the accused were jailed for life in April 2017.
In the village of Hussain Khanwala in Kasur, southwest of Lahore, videos were made of at least 280 children being sexually abused by a gang who blackmailed their parents by threatening to leak the videos.
The police, who had conspicuously failed to act despite pleas from some parents, eventually made dozens of arrests after clashes between relatives and authorities brought the issue into the media spotlight.
In March 2016, Senate also passed a bill that criminalised sexual assault against minors, child pornography and trafficking for the first time -- previously only the acts of rape and sodomy were punishable by law.
