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In Pakistan, Woman Says Husband Beat Her And Shaved Her Head For Refusing To Dance

The husband and an employee were taken into custody after the woman's account went viral on social media. The case has stirred a conversation about consent and spousal abuse in the country.

A Pakistani woman has accused her husband of stripping her naked, shaving her head and beating her with a plastic pipe when she refused to dance for him and his friends.

With her face visibly bruised, Asma Aziz in a video posted online last

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