Systemic backwardness


SUBMITTED BY: shahidsomroo

DATE: Jan. 30, 2018, 6:42 a.m.

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  1. A prime example of this was highlighted by a recent Dawn article lamenting the use of the archaic and useless two-finger test used to establish ‘consent’ in a sexual assault case.
  2. This legal requirement for a two-finger test to determine the veracity of the complaint of a rape victim resides within the dusty archives of law books, as a relic of the medieval precedence on which British law of that time was often structured, and is not in practice in any modern legal system across the world.

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