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Remember how the video of the flogging of a young woman who had the temerity to leave her home with a man who wasn’t her husband or relative was supposed to change the psyche of the Pakistani people ...

ISLAMABAD (AP) -- Pakistani authorities ordered inquiries Friday into a video showing the public flogging of a screaming woman in a northwestern valley where officials have yielded to Taliban demands ...

ISLAMABAD — Pakistani police arrested 10 alleged members of a criminal gang on Monday accused of flogging a transgender woman and posting a video of the abuse on social media, officials said. The ...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Tuesday the flogging of a woman in Pakistan was "unacceptable" and the chief justice had taken the right decision to launch an ...