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Why Is It So Hard to Try A Rape Case in Pakistan? Bringing a case through Pakistani courts and discerning truth from fiction is dangerous, complicated and, as filmmakers Habiba Nosheen and Hilke Schellmann learned, fraught with challenges.

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