Women moving Pakistan backwards

Female Madrassa Students in Pakistan Battle Musharraf - Massoud Ansari

They look like ninjas dressed in black from top to toe and wielding menacing bamboo sticks. The young women students of Islamabad's Jamia Hafsa religious school make a fearsome enemy - as the government of Pakistan is finding out.

The students have given the government one month to enforce strict Sharia [Islamic] law throughout Pakistan and threaten to launch suicide attacks if their demands are not met.
(Sunday Telegraph)