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(STOCK IMAGE) Two foreign nationals said they were raped in Lahore (Image: Getty)
Pakistani detectives discovered two female foreign tourists had allegedly been brutally gang raped after they arrived in the country on visas organised by their attackers. The revelation comes as a major update in a case which is reported to have links to Pakistani politics. It’s understood the female tourists met with one of their alleged attackers in Singapore in October 2025 and he invited the pair to Pakistan.
The two women, said to be from the Netherlands and Venezuela, claimed they were kidnapped from where they were staying in Lahore, Pakistan’s second largest city, on June 29. The traumatised victims were found when the father of one of the women phoned police after he had not heard from his daughter.
The women were allegedly beaten and sexually assaulted by multiple men before being forced to negotiate ransom payments. In testimony before a magistrate, one survivor alleged one of her attackers demanded access to bitcoin funds during the ordeal.
Pakistani police arrested four suspects who appeared at court in Friday July 3, before being remanded in custody. The men have been named as Hassan Raza, Sikandar Khan and Sajid Ali. According to multiple reports, the fourth man, Muhammad Raza Dar, is the grandson of Pakistan’s Deputy Prime Minister.
A fifth suspect, reportedly a security guard, remains at large.
The attacks are said to have taken place in Lahore, Pakistan (Image: Getty)
Police found the women after one victim’s father called authorities from Spain, triggering a surveillance‑led operation.
One of the women told police armed men stormed the property they were staying, before restraining them and demanding she reveal which computer contained details of her cryptocurrency account.
ARY News reported she said: “He told me if we gave them the money, we would live. If we didn’t, they would kill us.
“They were laughing, slapped me and told me to keep quiet when I started crying.”
A court heard the woman were raped at gun point, and tortured with broken pieces of a mirror.
In testimony one of the women said the pair were in Pakistan after allegedly being invited by Hassan Raza who they had met in Singapore in October 2025. She told the court: “We were invited by Raza to come to Pakistan and he arranged our visas”.
The women were found by police after a $100,000 (£74,000) ransom payment was allegedly made by their families. It’s reported the kidnappers originally demanded around £1.2 million.
(STOCK IMAGE) Pakistani police launched an investigation after one woman’s father phoned (Image: Getty)
The suspects have been remanded in police custody for five days after prosecutors requested 14 days to recover weapons, ransom money, and other evidence.
According to Arab News, Deputy District Public Prosecutor Nazar Iqbal said: “The allegation is of rape, gang rape took place because there were multiple people, more than one.”
“Additionally, they (the suspects) had kept them (the women) hidden at a certain place and then there was a demand for ransom.”
Iqbal confirmed forensic testing will be conducted, but said prosecutors would proceed even if results are inconclusive, relying on other evidence including witness testimony and surveillance footage.
