Pakistan gang rapists re-convicted

PAKISTAN’S highest Islamic court has thrown out the controversial acquittal of five men convicted of raping a woman on orders from a village council in a case that shocked the world.

It said that a lower appeals court had no jurisdiction to rule on the case.

The decision by the Federal Shariat Court was yet another twist in the case of Mukhtar Mai, a 33-year-old woman who was raped after elders in her village ordered the attack as punishment for her brother’s alleged illicit affair with a woman from another family.