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A bit of evolution - 11/15/2006 6:55:30 PM

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New Pakistani rape laws anger Islamists

By PAUL GARWOOD, Associated Press WriterWed Nov 15, 6:51 PM ET

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.

Consensual sex outside marriage remains a crime punishable by five years in prison or a $165 fine, said a parliamentary official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media.

International and local calls for change intensified after the 2002 gang-rape of a woman, Mukhtar Mai, who was assaulted after a tribal council in her eastern Punjab village ordered the rape as punishment for her 13-year-old brother's alleged affair with a woman of a higher caste.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061115/ap_on_re_as/pakistan_rape_laws

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