The women also banded together to help pass five pieces of important legislation protecting women, including laws againstsexualharassment in the workplace, according to Farkhanda Aurangzeb, from the Islamabad-based Aurat Foundation.
Around the same time in Punjab, another northern state, an officer who was protecting his daughter againstsexualharassment -- locally referred to as "Eve teasing" -- was shot dead in public view, allegedly by a local political party member who was troubling her.