With tears trickling down her face, Shiraka Bibi says...

With tears trickling down her face, Shiraka Bibi says her daughter Zafran, sentenced to be stoned to death under strict Islamic laws for alleged adultery, is the prettiest of her 10 children.
As Zafran languishes on death row with her young baby that she says is the result of being repeatedly raped by her brother-in-law, the case has become a rallying call for activists pushing for repeal of discriminatory laws.
Shiraka, wrapped in a knee-length dirty shawl and surrounded by Zafran's three brothers, is fighting hard to save her daughter from the brutal death ordered by a court in Kohat in North West Frontier Province under the harsh Islamic Hadud ordinance.
"She is more beautiful than any other of my children," Shiraka said pointing to her eldest son Mohabat Khan, sitting next to her on a cot and two younger sons standing in their mud-walled house in a remote village in northwestern Pakistan.
Zafran's story is tragic. Shiraka says her daughter was married to Naimat Khan in an arranged marriage 13 years ago. Khan was jailed for life for murder in 1992 and Shiraka said Zafran had been the victim of repeated abuse by her brother-in-law ever since.
Shiraka says her daughter was repeatedly raped and gave birth to a baby. But the law offered no protection and as she was unable to prove rape by producing the required four male or eight female witnesses, she was instead found guilty of adultery.
No action has been taken against her alleged attacker and Zafran has challenged her conviction in the federal Shariah court, the highest Islamic court.
"We hope she will get justice and be acquitted," Shiraka told Reuters in her village of Chorlaki.
Under the Islamic laws introduced by former military dictator General Mohammad Zia-ul-Haq in 1979, as part of his Islamisation drive, the responsibility of proving rape rests with the victim, otherwise she will be punished for adultery.