More than two dozen men have been arrested in rural Pakistan for their involvement in an alleged, tit-for-tat rape. The men, part of a village council, ordered the rape of one teenage girl as revenge for the rape of another.
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A Pakistani man has been handed four death sentences for a rape and murder that shocked the country. Many in Pakistan, including the murdered girl's parents, have called for a public execution.
Pakistan has conferred the country's highest civilian award on Asma Jahangir, the human rights icon who died in February. DW talks to Pakistani women who are continuing Jahangir's legacy in a male-dominated society.
Angry at alleged police inaction in the investigation of a 7-year-old's rape and murder, two people were killed during protests in the Pakistani city Kasur. But Zainab Ansari isn't the only girl to have died there.
The rape and murder of Zainab Ansari, a seven-year-old Pakistani girl, have shocked the country. People demand justice for the girl's family, but there isn't much discussion on the issue of child protection in Pakistan.