Nida Kirmani claims Lahore hotels, guest houses involved in sex trafficking

Nida Kirmani, a sociologist and social worker, has made an alarming revelation that many guest houses and hotels in Lahore are running vast and organised network of sexual trade.

According to her, this network is infact a dark business of organized sexual slavery against women, in which the involvement of state institutions also seems clear.

Nida Kirmani claimed that this business starts from buying the daughters from poor families by giving them loans and  fake promises. These girls are locked and kept prisoners in different guests houses.

The managers of these guest houses sell these prisoner girls to the customers, and keep large portion of revenue for themselves from these transactions (forced sex). A part of this revenue is also given to the local police and other officers as bribe so that they don’t have any hurdle in their illegal business. These prisoner girls are told that they have to pay some loan, and the loan is paid from the gained revenue. Then these girls get trapped in a lifelong prison.

Nida Kirmani also told this information is verified from reputable community based organisations, who work with women sex workers. However, she also claimed that these girls are not sex workers but the sex slaves, who are controlled throgh violence and threat.

She told, “This is a horror dream in which government is also involved. Many of us are looking closely at the Epstein case, which shows the relationship between power and the global network. But this reality is happening in front of us in our cities and many of us are unaware of it.

She also showed concern that everything that is happening in Lahore is also happening in other cities of our country. There is a dire need for immediate and impartial action in this regard to provide justice to these voiceless women.

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