{"id":66058,"date":"2024-08-06T15:00:35","date_gmt":"2024-08-06T06:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/article\/2024\/aug\/06\/she-wanted-a-divorce-so-her-father-hacked-her-legs-with-an-axe-how-pakistan-fails-women"},"modified":"2024-08-06T15:00:35","modified_gmt":"2024-08-06T06:00:35","slug":"she-wanted-a-divorce-so-her-father-hacked-her-legs-with-an-axe-how-pakistan-fails-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=66058","title":{"rendered":"She wanted a divorce so her father hacked her legs with an axe: how Pakistan fails women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sobia Batool Shah is being protected in hospital after a mob of male relatives attacked her in a harrowing case that highlights Pakistan\u2019s epidemic of gender-based violence<\/p>\n<p>The household was fast asleep when the six men broke in. They sought out Sobia Batool Shah, 22, and one of them attacked her with a hatchet, chopping at her limbs in an effort to sever her legs. \u201cHe was relentless and must have hit me at least 15 times,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI screamed in pain and pleaded with him to stop, but he was like a man possessed,\u201d she adds. \u201cI even told him I will not seek a divorce.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/article\/2024\/aug\/06\/she-wanted-a-divorce-so-her-father-hacked-her-legs-with-an-axe-how-pakistan-fails-women\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sobia Batool Shah is being protected in hospital after a mob of male relatives attacked her in a harrowing case that highlights Pakistan\u2019s epidemic of gender-based violenceThe household was fast asleep when the six men broke in. They sought out Sobia B&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[934,59,78,60,440,79,61,281,617,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-domestic-violence","category-global-development","category-life-and-style","category-pakistan","category-sexual-violence","category-society","category-south-and-central-asia","category-women","category-womens-rights-and-gender-equality","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66058"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66059,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66058\/revisions\/66059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}