The Washington Post, January 13th, 1988
The case of Shahida Parveen is just beginning to surface in the Western press and before it is over it could become a cause celebre. Americans who have any sense of outrage ought to make it so, as should Americans who would like to see their foreign aid dollars leveraged into some civility among our more bloodthirsty allies. Shahida Parveen is a 25-year-old Pakistani woman who has been sentenced to be stoned to death for adultery. The sentence was not handed down in biblical times. It was handed down on Nov. 7 and is the third time that Pakistani courts have sentenced people to be stoned to de...
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