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Excellent point and in my opinion U hit the hammer on the head of the nail. Even the editorial makes the exact same point:
"A lacuna that has been criticized is that the law still treats 'honour' killing as a compoundable crime, meaning that the victim's relatives may come to an agreement (razinama) with the murderer, or accept money as compensation. Women's rights groups as well as the opposition thus criticise the law as inadequate, holding that instead of a relative, the state should have been made the 'wali'."
The entire argument about devolving the state into a tribe, seems to fall on deaf ears as far as the MMA and PML-Q are concerned (BTW, there is article on "Pakistan the case for Moderation" thread about how the Mulla infiltrated the ML and betrayed Jinnah's Pakistan) -- anyway, notice that with these laws, it is not The people represented by the state Vs Mr X y Z Defendant, it's more like the state abdicating it's role in favour of deal made between two parties, irrespective of the victim -- That is why when women are raped in Pakistan, it is they and the perpetrators, the rapists, who go to jail - and these laws are also the reason why not a single Mullah has been prosecuted for the charge of child molestation and buggery, even though as we detailed earliers, there were more than 500 complaints registered in just a single fiscal quarter.
It's the State itself which is deliberatley being put to risk, these laws rob the state of it's sole, exclusive, responsibility and needless to say, the victim, ofcourse women, get the shaft so to speak - but then again so does all Pakistan.
There is some chance that the entre Huddood law may go into the dustbin, it's a small chance - lets see how the politics of power works out in Pakistan.
Women as commodity? actually the truth is that in Pakistan even today, woman is the nig..er of the world. No apologies for the word, it's the truth.
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when they make no laws but what they themselves and their posterity must be subject to; when they can give no money, but what they must pay their share of; when they can do no mischief, but what must fall upon their own heads in common with their countrymen; their principals may expect then good laws, little mischief, and much frugality
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