The independent Human Rights Commission of Pakistan...

The independent Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP), in its recent 2001 report, estimates that one woman in Pakistan is raped every two hours, but most sexual assaults go unreported because of the impossibility of being able to prove the charges and the attached social stigma.
"These are harsh laws... and women have always been at the receiving end," said HRCP chairman Afrasiab Khattak.
"Men are often bailed out and if the women are complainants, they are turned into accused."
Pakistan's military ruler General Pervez Musharraf said in May he was confident Zafran would not be stoned to death.
"(This) must not happen. It has never happened (before in Pakistan) and it will not happen," he told reporters.
But rights activists say the government should scrap the law.
"Zafran Bibi's case is not the first and the last one under this law and more Zafran Bibis will suffer as long as this law remains on the statute book," Khattak said.
"Now when it is being realised that we should get rid of extremism, then women should also get benefit of this trend and such negative laws should repealed," said Aneesa Zeb, a women's rights activist and lawyer in the northwestern city of Peshawar.
If Zafran escapes being stoned, she could be vulnerable to attack for a so-called "honour killing", where male relatives murder women they accuse of immoral behaviour.
Shiraka said she would do all she could to protect Zafran from the brutal feudal tradition that claims scores of victims in Pakistan each year.
"We will fully protect her because she is innocent," Shiraka said.
Khan agreed with his mother. "I never visited her (Zafran) in prison because I could not face her but let me tell you...we will protect her if she wants to live with us," he said.
Honour killings are rampant in Pakistan's feudal-dominated rural and tribal areas with an HRCP report citing 1,600 cases of such killings in the country in 2002.