Pakistan: women protest presidents insults to rape victims.

The article reports on the protest made by women's groups over the remarks by General Pervez Musharraf, president of Pakistan that showed extraordinary callousness toward women who have been raped. Musharraf had prevented Mukhtar Mai, a woman gang-raped by order of a village council because its members were angry at her brother for being seen with another girl, from leaving Pakistan at the invitation of human rights groups in the U.S. The president told a conference on violence against women in Islamabad that Pakistan should not be singled out, and he criticized women's groups for publicizing rape cases outside the country.