Category Archive for : ‘PAKISTAN’

December 15, 2020
Wagar Mustafa
News Trust

LAHORE, Pakistan, Dec 15 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Pakistan introduced a rape law on Tuesday that will create special courts to try cases within four months, after protests over the gang rape of a woman whose car ran out of fuel.
The presidential decree also provides for anti-rape cells to provide medical examinations within six hours of a complaint being made and creates a national sex offender registry.
“The ordinance will help expedite cases of sexual abuse against women and children. Special courts will be set up across

On March 3, a court overturned the conviction of a village elder and four other men who had been sentenced to death for allegedly ordering a woman gang-raped as punishment for her brother’s illicit sex with a woman from their clan.  The rape of Mukhtar Mai in 2002 in a mud-brick house in a village in central Pakistan made world headlines and led the government to promise sweeping changes to end centuries of honor attacks and killings.  Six men, including village council chief Faiz Mastoi, were convicted and sentenced to

A Pakistan court judge ruled that Javed Iqbal, 42 be executed the way he killed 100 children by strangulation and dismemberment with his remains dissolved in acid.  Under Pakistani law, family members are allowed to have convicted murders of their family members die in the same manner as they were killed.