Compromise Offers Alternative to Rape Law
From Times Wire Reports
The government agreed to a compromise with hard-line Islamic lawmakers on proposed changes to a law that has long made punishing rapists almost impossible, a legislator said.
The widely criticized law, based on Islamic tenets, requires a woman who claims to have been raped to produce four witnesses.
A ruling-party lawmaker said the government had agreed to a compromise by letting victims choose between prosecuting under the four-witness rule or under Pakistan’s civil penal code.
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