A 19-year-old Pakistani woman has been sentenced to death for reporting her cousin raped her at gunpoint.
She was asleep in her home in the South-western City of Rajanpur in the Punjab province when the assault occurred.
The young woman reported the crime to the local village court only to hear she was at fault for arousing the sexual desires of the rapist.
PBS calls Pakistani law a “delicate balance between religious and secular law.” However, life for women in Pakistan is anything but delicate.
The Council of Islamic Ideology, a committee of Islamic scholars, works with the Pakistani government to ensure laws align with Islamic teachings.
This young Pakistani woman’s impending murder is in many ways a warning.
More information about this young woman’s trial and how courts prosecute sexual assault cases under sharia law on the next page
That doesn’t sound like any kind of balance
Pray
Pathetique…
This is just sick.
HOW WRONG IS THAT? omg
Another shithole.
They should not get any funding at all!
Islam is a religion of death not of peace!
It is neither religious nor secular. It’s barbaric and cruel. Stop all monetary aid permanently.
What do you expect when islam has a pedophile for a leader…
The PBS pronunciation that this represents “the delicate balance between religious and secular law”, is a prime example of the mental disease inhabiting the liberal mind! Where is their common sense?