This photograph, taken on July 26, 2017, shows the room where a Pakistani teenage girl was raped as an act of revenge ordered by the tribal council in Muzaffarabad, a suburb of the city of Multan. - AFP

ISLAMABAD: Police in central Pakistan have arrested 10 men for ordering the rape of a woman as revenge for a rape allegedly committed by her brother, officials said yesterday.

The incident happened on March 20 in Toba Tek Singh, a town in Punjab province 275 kilometers southwest of Lahore. "A boy named Waseem was caught in the act with a 16-year old girl and the whole neighborhood gathered demanding to kill the boy," Naeem Yousuf, a local police official said. "The boy's family then gave the girl's family the option of raping any woman in their family," he said.

They chose a 40-year-old woman, who was duly raped by the brother of the 16-year-old girl. According to Naeem, the two families then drafted a written agreement about the "settlement" stating that they would forget the incident and hold no grudges. - AFP