Rape victims will not be jailed

[Iconoclast]

Re: Rape victims will not be jailed

@Minerva

Icon, over 60% of the women languishing in jails are there due to the crimes of honor, under the false charges of adultary and promiscuity brought upon or against them by their own people and family.

I don’t know about the rape victims being jailed but then one cannot rule out the possibility. To Dr. Shazia Khalid and Mukhtar Mai, the entire country would have looked like a jail, honestly. The way these women were intimidated, asked to keep mum about whatever happened with them was indeed shameful and when they complained, all hell broke lose. Our dear President doesn’t squirm from saying that these women asked for it and they do it on purpose, such as to get the canadian visa.

I am all for changes in the law to make it better for women in Pakistan, they need to be empowered. However, what pissed me off was the completely false statements that ran throughout the world press that a woman reporting to police a rape case is arrested if she cannot produce 4 witnesses. This is crap. And for quite a long time i beleived this crap, coz it was circulated in such manner. But this is simply not true.