Women in Pakistan die every day for supposedly dishonoring their families, and arrests are rare. But Bano Bibi’s defiant last words were caught on video.
A protest last month in Quetta, Pakistan, against the killings of Bano Bibi and Ehsanullah Samalani, who had been accused of having an affair. A tribal leader ordered their execution, according to a police report.
More than 1.4 million Afghans have been forced out of Iran since January amid a governmental crackdown. Elian Peltier, an international correspondent at The New York Times, reports from the Afghanistan-Iran border. There, he met with Afghans grappling with an uncertain future, as they return to a country with widespread poverty and severe restrictions on women’s and girls’ rights.
Afghans being forced out of Iran are grappling with an uncertain future in Afghanistan, where widespread poverty and severe restrictions on women and girls await.
Afghans being forced out of Iran are grappling with an uncertain future in Afghanistan, where widespread poverty and severe restrictions on women and girls await.
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