 The girl had not committed fornication or adultery but was flogged simply because she refused her brother's demand to marry someone of his choosing.Protests against the TTP broke out all over the country to demonstrate against the flogging.Conservative thinker Raja Zafar ul Haq of Pakistan Muslim League, appearing in news channels, maintained that "this summary punishment of flogging simply for refusing a marriage proposal was totally "un-Islamic" and had nothing to do with "Sharia"."