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...recent actions. First, he appeared to side with religious bigots opposed to a mixed-gender "mini-marathon" in Lahore and failed to condemn the police harassment of the race's supporters, including leading human-rights lawyer Asma Jahangir. Then he backed a travel ban on gang-rape victim Mukhtar Mai, preventing her from rallying support abroad for her cause. Under pressure from the U.S., the government has since granted her permission to leave Pakistan, though now that her case is being heard by the Supreme Court, she will stay for the duration...
...instinct to curtail our freedoms remains, not least in Musharraf himself. Like rulers before him, he appears to have little regard for civil liberties when they conflict with his political objectives. Hence his willingness to act in what he calls the "national interest": initially denying a gang-rape victim the right to travel (she might reflect badly on Pakistan), or tolerating the roughing up of supporters of a mixed-gender race (presumably because he thinks Pakistan is not yet ready for such an event...
...remnants of the Taliban, and bomb attacks have taken place in Kabul. At times, the authors' enthusiasm for their subject appears to make them downplay these issues, as when they assert somewhat too dismissively: "Kabul is a city of several million people ... and the percentage chance of being a victim is tiny." But Omrani and Leeming also do the country a service by pointing out what ought to be more widely known: most of Afghanistan is, in fact, very safe. This includes its most beautiful province, Badakhshan, where no security problems have been reported since the ousting of the Taliban...
Guided by a recent Mass. Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) decision, Middlesex Superior Court Judge Regina L. Quinlan decided that during the trial she had improperly disqualified evidence about the violent pasts of Pring-Wilson’s victim and the victim’s cousin...
According to that SJC case, jurors may learn about the alleged violent histories of a victim in a fight if it can help them determine who the aggressor...