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| Perv urged to repeal laws against women |
| 2002-05-04 |
| Protesting against the sentence of death by stoning in public awarded to Zafran Bibi of Kohat by a trial court, a Peshawar district councillor, Shamim Qaiser Khan, has asked President Gen Pervez Musharraf to take immediate notice of the incident and repeal all the discriminatory laws against women. Now's the time, Perv. It won't come again... In a statement issued on Friday, she said since the creation of Pakistan successive rulers had been introducing discriminatory laws, and former military ruler General Zia-ul-Haq took the lead from others by introducing the controversial Hudood laws. Shamim said the sentence slapped on Zafran Bibi was the outcome of those discriminatory laws. She regretted that due to the prevailing oppressive laws hundreds of females had to suffer. If Pakland is ever going to cease being a "failed state" one of the things it's going to have to do is enter the 20th century at least, if not the 21st. "We have undermined Islam to a level that people of the world associate it with illiteracy, backwardness, intolerance," Musharraf said last December. Public stoning is pretty much backwardness by definition. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |