A Horror Story Every Woman Must Read

How could a human being - let alone a husband - disfigure a person in this way?  It happened to Zahida Parveen, and it happens to thousands of other female victims of "honor violence" each year in Pakistan.Read here for more of the story.

Brutal Women Abuses in Pakistan

If you are a follower of my blog, I've posted several videos before about violence against Pakistani women.Here's another video I found in YouTube.

Helping Pakistan's Acid Attack Victims

Scores of women in Pakistan are severely disfigured by acid attacks every year.Pakistan's Acid Survivors Foundation recorded 48 cases last year and countless others are likely to have gone unreported.Al Jazeera's Alan Fisher reports from Lahore on how one woman is helping the victims to rebuild their lives.

An "Extraordinary" Rape Victim

Pakistani rape victims often commit suicide, but Ms. Mukhtaran Bibi, who is also known as Mukhtar Mai, instead successfully challenged her attackers in court, winning international fame for her bravery. She runs several schools, an ambulance service and a women’s aid group in her village and has written an autobiography.For more of her story, peep here and here.

A Nose for a Nose, Ears for Ears

This the latest news in Lahore today.A Pakistani court has ordered that two men have their ears and noses cut off, as punishment for doing the same to a woman who refused to marry one of them.The two brothers were found guilty of kidnapping 20-year-old Fazeelat Bibi, one of their cousins, in September.The judge in Lahore also sentenced them to life in prison.Sentence was passed on Monday under a rarely invoked Islamic law dating from the 1980s. In the past, similar sentences have been revoked on appeal.Government prosecutor Ehtisham Qadir said the punishment had been awarded in accordance with the Islamic principle of "an eye for an eye".I hope a lot of abused women out there will fight for their case too.Kudos to the judge.Sentences like this will bring fear to those who would commit this crimes in future.For more of the news, read here and here.