Aren't you conflating two things that might in reality be quite orthogonal? Rape may more be about overwhelming control, the other about something completely different.
I haven't lived in those times to know, but by anecdotal eveidence, people in Pakistan ~100 years ago had fewer school years on their résumés but a lot more going for them in the ethics department.
The qur-aan is the qur-aan not kitaab! It's oral.
I heard there were many jihaadis who go for small-time acting roles to Mumbai. It was common to hear 'Here's X, a struggler', but I don't think they're hated generally. And J&K is hardly the best known place in India for the media indistry.
If the BIIP cannot be trusted with spelling mulla (i.e. without an h) right, could it be trusted to draw correct conclusion from a situation as complex as Afghanistan's?
If it is the same bill that lets a security-agency personnel to shoot to kill a civilian for suspicion, then in my book NA just committed an act of treason on Pakistan. Security forces are meant for citizens' security.
Too much balderdash in the opening paragraphs. Sad that nyt readers will only get to see this, and not things without too many assumptions and colored glasses.