Thank you for your testimony today, and thank you for the work that the government is doing on this file. It's interesting to listen to your descriptions, because what you are describing is a very pervasive, widespread physical and sexual abuse of women in Pakistan. That is close to the same kinds of testimony we've heard about Afghanistan. Of course, there's a more direct conflict happening in Afghanistan. But it sounds as though the discrimination against women in particular runs very deep culturally. It's not just a matter of a few loose cannons in the government who are doing this; it's widespread and goes deep into the society.
Our study is on the sexual assault of women and children during peacekeeping operations or in fragile states or in situations of conflict. You have this situation in which the so-called insurgents in Afghanistan go back into the Swat valley, if I remember correctly, in Pakistan. I'm wondering, first of all, whether you see an added impact in Pakistan as a result of that, more or less.
The other thing I'm wondering is this. This is an awkward one, in the sense that we heard testimony earlier this week that in Afghanistan young boys are paraded around dressed as girls and then sold to the highest bidder, fundamentally, and the abuses just begin at that stage.
Are there things like that also occurring in Pakistan?