ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) -- Pakistan lawmakers passed amendments to the country's contentious rape laws, making it easier for victims to prosecute their attackers, and dropping the death penalty and flogging as punishments for extramarital sex.
Islamist fundamentalists, however, were furious and stormed out of parliament in protest at Wednesday's vote.
But is this just purely cosmetic?
The changes, which must still be approved by the Senate, give judges discretion to try rape cases in a criminal rather than Islamic court, where women have to present at least four witnesses for a conviction. Musharraf urged the Senate to pass the Protection of Women Bill within days.
And if she can't do that, she's the one found guilty and flogged.
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