Posted on 07/24/2002 7:40:11 PM PDT by Lessismore
Four Pakistani men charged in connection with a gang rape sit inside a police lockup at Ali Pur near Multan on July 16. REUTERS/Asim Tanveer
Five-year-old Iqra stands in the courtyard of her house in Abbakhel village, near Mianwali city in central Punjab province, July 26, 2002. Irqa was to be married as part of a deal between families in exchange for the pardon of four men on death row. Four convicted murderers face execution in Pakistan on Saturday after a deal by which they sought to escape hanging by selling young daughters into marriage to elderly relatives of their victims broke down in a storm of protest. REUTERS/Mian Khursheed
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