Policemen stand guard beside torched automobiles throughout an illustration to sentence the alleged rape of a feminine scholar in Lahore on October 16, 2024.
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Senior administrators of a Pakistan faculty mentioned on Wednesday there was no proof {that a} scholar had been raped on campus after reviews that unfold on-line sparked days of protests.

Tons of of scholars have protested since Monday in response to social media posts that mentioned a lady was raped within the basement of a Punjab School for Ladies campus within the jap metropolis of Lahore.

The demonstrators, who had been largely male college students, smashed home windows and burned faculty buses.

The protests replicate rising concern over security, harassment and sexual violence in Pakistan.

“The incident doesn’t exist. I’ll resign and I’ll depart this occupation and stand with the scholars if the incident came about,” Arif Chaudry, the Lahore director of the personal Punjab Group of Schools that runs the ladies’s faculty, advised reporters.

Agha Tahir Ijaz, one other of the group’s administrators, advised the identical information convention: “We would like the youngsters to grasp that they need to not consider misinformation.”

Police arrested a safety guard who was recognized in on-line posts however mentioned no sufferer had come ahead and that that they had not been in a position to confirm the incident.

The protests first erupted at two of the faculty’s campuses on Monday afternoon earlier than spreading to a number of different faculties across the metropolis and continued on Tuesday and Wednesday.

The school campus the place the alleged rape was mentioned to occur has been shut down by the provincial Punjab authorities till additional discover.

The chief minister of the province, Maryam Nawaz Sharif, mentioned that those that unfold the false posts can be punished.