This clip is a 10-second extract from an unidentified British TV news retrospective about General Zia ul Haq, dictator of Pakistan from 1977 to 1985, who introduced high-profile public caning of male criminals.

There are two brief glimpses of a public caning in progress. The prisoner has been tied up to a wooden frame exactly as seen in this series of still pictures from a different occasion.

There are also brief scenes of the crowd watching the caning, possibly in a stadium, and being kept in order by the police with sticks.

Two separate strokes are seen being delivered to the offender's buttocks. He is writhing and squirming. The proceedings are not heard on the soundtrack.

HERE IS THE CLIP:

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