Miftah Ismail may have stepped down as minister of finance, but he isn’t out. On The Pakistan Experience podcast with Shehzad Ghias, he appeared to be as relaxed as a man can be – at.
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“HANG them! Destroy them! Humiliate them! We won’t stay home so they can grow! No more!” screamed a placard held in the hands of a woman at an Islamabad protest last September, after the Lahore police chief questioned why a woman, who was raped after her car stalled, had been driving alone on the Motorway at night.
There was huge public outcry but, in an indication of how ‘seriously’ those at the helm take crimes against women, it took the government nearly four months to transfer the police chief who blamed the victim and not his own force’s slow response to her SOS call.