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Pakistan Supreme Court with Collision Course with Taliban: Part 2
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by Amaad | April 6, 2009 at 10:30 am
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Pakistan's newly reinstated chief justice has ordered a police committee to investigate the controversial flogging of a teenage girl.
A video has been circulating of the public flogging in the north-western Swat valley which has sparked outrage.
Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry said the probe should determine the victim and the perpetrators.
The film shows apparent Taleban members holding the girl down and hitting her with a strap as she cries out in pain.
Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani has condemned the incident as "shameful".
The BBC's Barbara Plett in Islamabad says that the video has strengthened fears that the provincial government has capitulated to militants in Swat by agreeing to implement Islamic Sharia law there.
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at 13:27 on April 6th, 2009
do these women have death wish? thats like asking for trouble in that county. I doubt anything will come out of this. who knows how many teenage boys and girls are flogged and molested by these guys. just makes me sick when I think of these Muslim terrorists