Reply #5: You might want to tone down the rhetoric

[pennylane100]

that would go a long way to making this thread sound a lot less like My Space.

There has always been dictators (some of them elected in less than fair elections) running Pakistan and the wars with India have been going on since the beginning so lets not pretend that this particular dictator was any more culpable than his predecessor.

My point was that for the first time there is a law on the books that will protect the women of pakistan, those who who cannot afford to live in exile. The elected democracy that he overthrew did not seem to accomplish that, and he has at least kept the country in relative peace.

Of course free speech is important, but before this law there was no freedom for rape victims in Pakistan and certainly no the right to speak against their accusers in court. So on balance, I would call this a win for women everywhere.