The World - News from July 3, 1988
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About 400 Pakistani women demonstrated in Lahore against their country’s implementation of Islamic law last month. The protesters fear that the new code will negate many rights of women, including laws enacted in 1961 that gave them the right to file for divorce. Witnesses said many of the women at the protest waved the flag of Pakistan’s leading opposition party, the Pakistan People’s Party, headed by Benazir Bhutto.
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