Veil of Darkness: Report on Women of Pakistan by ABC News, 1989

This news package, produced by the American media company ABC News, involves a report on the state of women in Pakistan in 1989, after the end of Zia’s government. It includes discussions about the Hudood Ordinances, Sharia Law, forced marriages, and the general discrimination against women in Pakistan. Presented by journalist Tom Jarriel, it contains interviews of prominent figures such as Shaheen Sardar Ali, one of Pakistan’s first law professors. Asma Jahangir, prominent human rights activist and lawyer. Iftikhar Gilani, Federal Minister of Law in 1989. Ansar Burney, human rights activist and lawyer, and Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.