{"id":1939,"date":"2007-02-26T23:12:09","date_gmt":"2007-02-26T23:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=1939"},"modified":"2007-02-26T23:16:03","modified_gmt":"2007-02-26T23:16:03","slug":"and-shes-the-brave-one-who-spoke-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=1939","title":{"rendered":"And she&#8217;s the brave one who spoke out&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Rasheeda, now aged 17, was aged two, her father lost a poker game. To settled the debt, he sold her to his poker partner who, now a man of 45, wants to take her, possibly for his son&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Khalid Rajput, a local councillor dealing with the case, said the decision that Rasheeda should be handed over to Haider was taken late last week at a tribal council meeting.<br \/>\n&#8220;We know some tribal elders from Baluchistan came for the meeting in which the girl&#8217;s family was told to give her as per their customs,&#8221; he said.<br \/>\nIrfan Bhutto, a police officer in Hyderabad, said Haider had been summoned. &#8220;We will ensure the girl does not have to do anything against her will.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Probably significantly, Rasheeda lives in a Pakistani city, not a tribal area. How many girls go to this fate without hope of resistance in those areas?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Rasheeda, now aged 17, was aged two, her father lost a poker game. To settled the debt, he sold her to his poker partner who, now a man of 45, wants to take her, possibly for his son&#8230; Khalid Rajput, a local councillor dealing with the case, said the decision that Rasheeda should be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feminism","author-natalieben"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1939\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}