[dighton]

This is something you would see in rural India as well as Pakistan.

I'm afraid that's correct. The public humiliation -- ordered to return home naked before 1,000 onlookers -- is depressingly familiar from Indian accounts.

[Illbay]

It just astounds me. It is hard to believe there are areas of the world, entire cultures, that believe this is "justice."

I hope the Pakistani authorities are set to execute the principals in this sorry episode.

Further, I hope they are executed swiftly and with little pain. It would serve as a fitting juxtaposition to the barbarity they have wrought.