Mufti Ziauddin runs his finger down a chart that grimly chronicles the ``Status of Court Cases for Murdered Women.''

Before him are the statistics he has compiled in his home district in Pakistan. On the left hand side of the page are the victims, on the right hand side the verdicts. ``Acquitted,'' he reads, repeatedly jabbing at the page with his finger, ``Acquitted. Acquitted. Acquitted.