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A PAKISTANI TEENAGE GIRL WHO WAS GANG-RAPED SITS WITH MOTHER NEAR
MULTAN.
A Pakistani teenage girl, who was ordered to be gang-raped by tribal
village elders, sits with her mother inside her home at Meerwala Jatoi
village near Multan July 3, 2002. Pakistan's Supreme Court expressed
outrage on Wednesday at reports that a traditional village jury in
Punjab province ordered the gang-rape of a teenage girl and summoned
local officials to explain the affair. Local newspapers said the
village jury, or panchayat, ordered the gang-rape on June 22 as
punishment for an alleged love affair between the girl's brother Abdul
Shakoor and a girl from a high-caste tribe. REUTERS/Asim Tanveer
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