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into AASSRA, Pakistan's first shelter home for battered women with children. Bukhari and the
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In 2001, Bukhari was arrested for "abetting an attempt to commit adultery" after sheltering a woman from an abusive husband at AASSRA. She was cleared of the charges two years later. According to
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