This is probably punishable by death:
A prize-winning bikini competition contestant who claimed to represent Pakistan, sparking some outrage in the Muslim country, says she wanted to project the nation as a modern one.Yeah Pakistan is modern, this is how they treat their girls:
Officials in Pakistan, which does not hold beauty pageants, said Thursday they were investigating how Texas-based Mariyah Moten, 22, entered a "Miss Bikini" pageant in China last month as a Pakistani contestant.
Pakistan-born Moten, who holds an American passport, won a "Best in Media" title for being the most photographed and interviewed contestant, media reports said.
"I have broken all the barriers, and in the coming years there will be other Pakistani contestants who will carry this title," Moten, described by Pakistani media as the country's first bikini queen, told the Times of India newspaper.
"My intention was to project Pakistan in a very modern way."
Moten was born and brought up in the Pakistani city of Karachi. Her family moved to the United States eight years ago and she is now based in Houston.
MEERWALA, Pakistan - For two nervous hours, the teenage girl worried for her 11-year-old brother as their father pleaded before a Pakistani tribal council that the boy had done no wrong in walking unchaperoned with a girl from a different tribe.
The council was unconvinced and ordered a brutal punishment: The boy's sister would be gang-raped to shame her whole family.
Shortly afterward, four members of the council took turns raping the 18-year-old sister in a mud hut as hundreds of people stood outside, laughing and cheering.
"I touched their feet. I wept. I cried," the young woman told The Associated Press yesterday. "I said I taught the holy Koran to children in the village, therefore don't punish me for a crime which was not committed by me. But they tore my clothes and raped me one by one."
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Among the men on the tribal council was Mohammed Ramzan, the Mastoi girl's uncle.
