Word: afrasiab
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...Musharraf promised the death sentence would not be carried out, a Peshawar court temporarily suspended Zafran Bibi's death sentence and is considering her appeal. For human-rights activists, the reprieve doesn't go far enough. "As long as such laws are on the books, people will suffer," says Afrasiab Khattak, chairman of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan. --By Hannah Bloch
...case of Zafran Bibi, 28, is unusually complicated. At least five lawyers have been involved in her defense, though none wants to take responsibility for what has happened to her. "It is a horrible story of manipulations by her family, lawyers, police and even by the court," says Afrasiab Khattak, chairperson of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, which estimates that a woman is raped every two hours in the country. Zafran Bibi's husband, Naimat Khan, claims his own father used Zafran Bibi to settle a score with another villager. Khan, who until last year was in jail himself...
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