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Karachi Gang Rape and Taseer's Assassination

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I will be honest, I never really liked Salman Taseer or Pakistan Peoples Party for that matter. However, the way this man's assassination has been handled, is very disgusting to say the least. I am going to compare his murder to the Karachi gang rape. Oh and before I go on to say or write anything further, let me just say that, I understand that there will be some people who disagree with my views. In the Karachi gang rape case, people deviated from the situation and crime, by talking about what kind of a character the girl had, what she was doing so late in the night, where she was coming back from, by highlighting her live-in relationship with her boyfriend, but the truth is, all these kinds of things are irrelevant to the crime that happened. A girl was RAPED, period! There are no ifs and buts in this. In every other country in the world when the rapist is tried in a rape case, these kinds of things are not looked at, whether the girl has a loose character or whether the girl