Pakistan drops 'Un-Islamic' chemical castration as penalty for rapists

VOA

Pakistan says it has removed a clause from a new anti-rape law that had allowed for the chemical castration of repeat rapists. 

Prime Minister Imran Khan’s government confirmed the decision two days after the ruling coalition hurriedly approved 33 legislative bills, including the anti-rape law, in a joint session of the parliament on Wednesday, amid furious protests by opposition lawmakers.

“The Islamic Council of Ideology had objected to the punishment of chemical castration for rapists for being an un-Islamic practice, so we decided to remove it from the law,” Maleeka Bukhari, parliamentary secretary on law, told reporters Friday in Islamabad…