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When a woman doctor was allegedly raped by four armed men at a residence in the Baluchistan desert on Jan. 2, her assailants may well have expected her to be too ashamed to speak about it. They were wrong. In Pakistan's Baluchistan province, nothing is held in higher regard than a woman's honor, and the allegations of rape have the rough-and-tumble province, rich with natural gas fields, up in arms?literally. Baluch tribesmen have attacked a refinery and pumping station at the Sui gas fields, have sabotaged the pipeline that sends the natural...
...Friday with obstructing justice.) Workers at PPL reported the incident to Akbar Khan Bugti, the Nawab (or ruler) of the powerful Bugti clan. He says they told him the assailants were four soldiers in the Pakistani army. (Government troops protect the gas facilities.) Says the Nawab: "This gang rape took place on our land, in our midst. It has blackened our name...
...Last Wednesday, Musharraf said he's prepared to negotiate with Bugti and other tribal leaders over a share in these development projects. No deal, says the Nawab?not until the doctor's rapists are brought to justice. Yaqoob, the police inspector general, says the army officers suspected of the rape, who have yet to be detained, will soon submit to a DNA test. But the Nawab suggests an old tribal custom to prove their guilt or innocence. "Our elders say that the accused must walk through fire," he says. "If he is innocent, the flames won't harm...
...come-from-behind victory over the hated Yankees in the play-offs, followed by the team's first World Series triumph in 86 years. But for the rest of the U.S., the sports year was one to forget. And we're not just talking about Kobe Bryant's rape case. A rundown of the swings and misses of 2004. --By Sean Gregory...
...George was determined to win a PG-13 appalation from the Motion Picture Association. “In actual fact, you don’t see anything that’s categorically going to lead to an R rating,” George says. He shoots rape scenes in shadow. He shows piles of corpses, but he steers clear of horror film techniques. “I wanted it to be available to the widest possible audience,” George says...