Virtue and Vice police
Oct 14 2005, Bhawana Negi

The day when 14-year-old Farkhanda was chased and beaten by the Virtue and Vice police of Taliban, she crossed the borderline of girlhood and landed into womanhood, just because she had shown her face. Though the girls younger than 14 do not wear burqua,...

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