Video of woman being flogged shakes Pakistan peace accord

Saturday, April 4, 2009

ISLAMABAD -- Pakistani authorities ordered inquiries Friday into a video showing the public flogging of a screaming woman in a northwestern valley where officials have yielded to Taliban demands for Islamic law.

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