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AFGHAN WOMAN FORCED TO MARRY HER RAPIST

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ADVERTISEMENT To be raped by your cousin's husband; be jailed for adultery as your attacker was married; to wrestle the ignominy of global uproar not quite your jailing and exasperate, but be pardoned by presidential squabble; and later to undertake the shame and leaving taking into account from a conservative charity that somehow held you to blame. The steadfast in this group? Marry your provoker. That's what happened to Gulnaz, who was barely 16 back she was raped. She's now carrying the third child of her attacker, Asadullah, who was convicted and jailed -- even if this was as well as shortened. Gulnaz's plight -- subsequently for that excuse much in beleaguered Afghanistan -- disappeared from the world's stare following she was pardoned and released courtesy of a presidential pardon. Instead of a additional begin, what followed for Gulnaz was a quiet, Afghan unmodified to the "difficulty" -- a telling sign of where women's rights stand in Afghanis...