Pakistani women stand against the new Bill allowing ‘light beating’

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If all living beings are to be treated with love and dignity, then why women are subjected to a variety of tortures both physically and mentally? I wonder how men can misuse religion to justify the beast of man chauvinism and interpret anything to the best of their greed. ‘A light beating’ for

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