Minor girl rape: Pakistani cricketer Yasir Shah named in FIR

The FIR, a copy of which is available with Dawn.com, was registered on Dec 19 on the complaint of a woman at Islamabad's Shalimar police station.

The case was registered against Yasir and, according to the complainant, the cricketer's friend, Farhan, under sections 292-B and 292-C (child pornography) as well as 376 (punishment for rape) of the Pakistan Penal Code, reports the newspaper.

In the FIR, the woman said she took her 14-year-old niece, who is a matric student, to a gathering in Lahore which was hosted by Yasir Shah, who she said was her acquaintance. She said that two to three months after returning, her niece seemed "unwell and disturbed", read the newspaper.

"After continuously asking her about it, she said that at Yasir's house, his friend Farhan took her mobile number and after talking to her a few times, claimed to be her friend," the complainant said.

She alleged that Farhan also made the girl talk to Yasir.

"My niece told me that on August 14, when she was returning from tuition, Farhan made her get into a taxi and took her to a flat in F-11," the aunt told Dawn News.

At the flat, Farhan sexually assaulted her at gunpoint and also made a video, according to the FIR.

He told her that if she told anyone about what had happened, he would make the video go viral and kill her, the complainant said as quoted by Dawn News, adding that Farhan also got Yasir to threaten the teenager.

The aunt said that the girl later told her that Farhan blackmailed her once again, took her to a flat above a café in E-11 where he raped her a second time.

"When I heard about this, I called Yasir on WhatsApp and told him everything on September 10 or 11 at which point he was in the West Indies. Making fun [of the situation], he said that my niece was beautiful and he liked minor girls," she said, adding that the cricketer also proposed getting the teenager married off to Farhan.

Yasir is a regular representative in the Test squad.