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An update on this story. “Hadd,” according to the 1979 law, refers to punishments prescribed by the Qur’an or Sunnah. “Shujaat ‘agrees’ some women’s bill clauses un-Islamic,” from The Khaleej Times: ISLAMABAD “” Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain, president of the Pakistan Muslim League (PML), has agreed “to some extent” that some clauses of the Women’s Protection […]

Friend and Ally Update: Pakistani officials are urging NATO to accept and work with the Taliban. “Accept defeat by Taliban, Pakistan tells Nato,” by Ahmed Rashid in the Telegraph, : Senior Pakistani officials are urging Nato countries to accept the Taliban and work towards a new coalition government in Kabul that might exclude the Afghan […]

More on this story. “Muslims demand rape law reverse,” by Bruce Loudon for The Australian, with thanks to Miss Kelly: ONLY 10 days after Pakistan’s military-led Government reformed the country’s medieval rape and adultery laws, Islamabad appeared poised for a major backflip on the issue yesterday in an effort to pacify Islamic fundamentalists who have […]

Poor Islamic rapists. Will the Islamophobia never end? “Pakistani Islamists protest as new rape law signed,” from Reuters, with thanks to Clamper: ISLAMABAD, Dec 1 (Reuters) – Religious party activists held small protests on Friday in several cities around Pakistan as President Pervez Musharraf signed into law a bill curtailing the scope of Islamic laws […]

Reform or go to jail. Hey, whatever works. From The Associated Press, with thanks to Twostellas: LAHORE, Pakistan: Police detained three hard-line lawmakers Thursday in an attempt to block a protest in eastern Pakistan against recent changes to the country’s Islamic rape laws, witnesses and officials said. A six-party coalition of Islamic groups, the Mutahida […]

Even when transgressing the Islamic prohibition on alcoholic drinks, this mob remembers to express hatred and contempt for the unbelievers, the “vilest of creatures” (Qur’an 98:6). From Compass Direct: November 20 (Compass Direct News) — Armed and drunken Muslims struck two greeters at a Sunday evening service of a church outside Lahore last week, later […]

Don’t hold your breath, Hamid. “Afghanistan asks Pakistan to do more to hunt Islamic militants,” by Waheedullah Massoud for AP, : NEW DELHI (AFP) – Afghan President Hamid Karzai asked for greater cooperation from neighboring Pakistan to help fight Islamic militants during his visit to India. Karzai said his country was the victim of violence […]

This was inevitable. An update to this story by Paul Garwood for Associated Press, with thanks to Kapil: ISLAMABAD, Pakistan – Pakistan’s lower house of Parliament passed amendments to the country’s rape laws Wednesday, ditching the death penalty for extramarital sex and revising a clause on making victims produce four witnesses to prove rape cases. […]

“It’s something that’s partial. It’s half-way. We would have liked to see a total repeal of these anti-women and discriminatory laws.” Still, it’s some good news. By Zeeshan Haider for Reuters, with thanks to Tanis: ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Pakistan’s lower house of parliament voted on Wednesday to put the crime of rape under the civil […]

Sharia in northwest Pakistan. Friend and Ally Update from The Associated Press, : PESHAWAR, Pakistan: Lawmakers from an Islamic coalition ruling Pakistan’s deeply conservative northwest on Monday approved a controversial law to set up a Taliban-style department to suppress vice. The law establishes a unit led by an Islamic cleric to promote virtue and eliminate […]