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/ 20 December 2006
Human rights groups have praised Pakistan for overhauling its Islamic sex laws, but for women like Quratulain Sattar, it is still an uphill battle against trumped-up charges under the harsh legislation. The 25-year-old medical trainee’s father lodged adultery charges against Quratulain and her husband, Faraz Shah, after failing to force her to marry the man of his choice.
For 16 years Rukhsana Ali managed to hide her husband Wajid’s heroin addiction from their son and daughter, all the while ignoring her family’s repeated pleas to leave him. It paid off when Wajid kicked the habit last year, one of a growing number of drug users in Pakistan saved by determined spouses who resist social pressures and potential ostracism by their relatives.
Three parcel bombs exploded in two police offices and a government building in Pakistan’s violence-plagued commercial capital Karachi on Wednesday, injuring at least nine people including a parcel courier, police said.