Death penalty may not prove a deterrent for rape in South Asia


Anger: Women in Pakistan protesting the rape of a woman in Lahore.

IT is not a coincidence that most nations in South Asia are, amid the coronavirus-induced restrictions, seeing a sharp increase in incidents of rape.

Nepal’s government has been battling charges of letting rapists get away with impunity. Horrific instances of rape are being reported almost every day from India, and Pakistan was rocked by the rape of a woman near Lahore last month.

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