Police arrested two men in Lahore on Wednesday for their alleged torture of one of the suspect's wife over her refusal to dance for them.
According to a police complaint, Asma Aziz's husband of four years and two of his employees tortured her over her refusal to dance for them, the Dawn reported.
Asma, in a video circulating on social media, claimed that her husband had "always hit her a lot".
This time, she alleged, "he took my clothes off in front of his employees. The employees held me as he shaved my hair off and burned it. My clothes were bloody. I was bound by a pipe and hung from the fan. He threatened to hang me naked."
She added that the police, instead of providing her the FIR number or conducting a medical examination, asked her for money.
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She appealed to people for help, claiming that both her parents were dead and she had no place to go or food to eat.
Police officer Saleem Shaukat told DawnNewsTV that two of the suspects - the husband and one of his employees - had been arrested.
Pakistan ranks 150 out of 153 countries on The Georgetown Institute's Women, Peace and Security index - among the five worst countries for women in the world.
According to 2016 data, 26.8 per cent of Pakistani women said they have experienced intimate partner violence.
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