A man recounts his rape of a woman ‘captured’ by the Taliban in Afghanistan. “In one fight, we captured many girls and Taliban gave one of them to me who was 15 years old,” he says, “the girl kept on begging me but I did not listen to her and abused her forcefully.”

Another man says that he was attempting to emigrate to the European Union via Greece, using the services of an agent. He was asked to take another man’s son with him. While waiting for their departure, the man and boy stayed together in a hotel room in Karachi.

“My intentions regarding the boy turned negative,” he says, explaining how he coerced the boy into having sex with him. The man was arrested on the way to his destination, but he says that the boy managed to escape from the police (and from the storyteller as well).

Published in Dawn, Sunday Magazine, October 19th, 2014