Rape law rankles some Pakistan lawmakers
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Lawmakers from a coalition of six Islamic groups threatened on Tuesday to vacate their parliamentary seats if Pakistan's government changes a rape law criticized by human rights activists.
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Pakistanâs recent past is a numbing rush of political scandals and upheavals -- an environment in which a leaderâs clothing decisions would seem hardly worth attention.
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: Opposition lawmakers boycotted a parliamentary vote on Friday that unanimously elected Shaukat Aziz as Pakistan&#39;s new prime minister after their candidate, a jailed opposition leader, was barred from attending the proceedings.
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Authorities in Pakistan Friday refused to bring a jailed politician to Parliament to campaign for the prime minister&#39;s post. Javed Hashmi, a jailed opposition leader, is a candidate for the prime minister&#39;s office.
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The government is to press ahead with plans to reform the rape laws in an attempt to increase the low conviction rate.
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TIME's Aryn Baker spoke recently to Aitzaz Ahsan, the leader of the lawyers protests that shook the regime of Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf
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Pakistan&#39;s lawmaking National Assembly has passed a bill to allow dictator Pervez Musharraf to stay on as chief of the military.
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Pakistan's parliament has condemned the award of a British knighthood to author Salman Rushdie, whose novel "The Satanic Verses" outraged many Muslims around the world, and said Britain should withdraw the honor.
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As politicians pay tribute to a fallen leader, the country's Pakistanis are trying to come to terms with what her death means for their homeland
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A woman who claims she was raped by a fellow employee while working for a U.S. contractor in Iraq told House lawmakers Wednesday that her case is far from unique.
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MULTAN, Pakistan: Four police officers have been sacked for failing to arrest enough suspects after the rape of four young girls in a small town in Pakistan&#39;s eastern Punjab province, a police official said yesterday.
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ABBOTABAD, PAKISTAN -- Tens of thousands of demonstrators joined the biggest rally yet against the president's suspension of Pakistan's chief justice, giving the jurist a joyous reception yesterday before he spoke to supporters in an opposition stronghold. Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry's convoy defied a new two-month ban on gatherings of more than five people. But police did not stop the judge's ...
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The home minister has ruled out lifting an unpopular law giving the army widespread powers of arrest in the country's remote northeast, despite two months of bitter protests in Manipur.
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LAHORE, Pakistan  - A Pakistani lawyer who has spearheaded opposition to President Pervez Musharraf has come out of three months of detention as defiant as ever and insisting the president step down.
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While the government hailed an end to emergency rule, many Pakistani politicians, voters and the media said on Sunday that President Pervez Musharraf remained entrenched in power with elections next month skewed in his favor.
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Pakistan's upper house of parliament, the Senate, passed a bill curtailing the scope of Islamic laws on rape on Thursday, paving the way for President Pervez Musharraf to sign it into law.
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Pakistan's lower house of parliament  passed a bill on Thursday to allow President Pervez Musharraf  to stay on as army chief despite his pledge to give up the job  by the end of the year.