In the aftermath of the brutal gang-rape of a woman who was traveling on the Motorway in the Gujjarpura area of Punjab, the country-wide discussion on violence against women has gained yet more urgency. Calls for exemplary punishments of the perpetrators, such as public hanging, have proliferated in the public sphere. Suggestions by some, including […]
Islamabad-based American blogger Cynthia Dawn Ritchie recently accused former interior minister Rehman Malik of raping her, and ex-prime minister Yousaf Raza Gillani and federal minister Makhdoom Shahabuddin of physically manhandling her in 2011. Following the allegations, senior PPP leaders not only denied the serious charges but also sued the US blogger for ‘bogus’ accusations, seeking […]