Pakistan

Haripur case: Police arrest 4 members of jirga

Police arrested four people who were allegedly involved in an incident where a woman was paraded naked in Haripur.

Express June 16, 2011

Haripur case: Police arrest 4 members of jirga

HARIPUR: Police arrested four more people on Thursday, who were allegedly involved in an incident where a woman was paraded naked in a village in Haripur.

The woman, *Shaheen, was made to walk naked on the streets of the village in the Upper Neelor area after a jirga decided that she was to be punished for her son's alleged rape of another woman.

Police arrested the head of the jirga today (Thursday), Bashir, along with three other jirga members who have been identified as Imran, Arsalan and Sulaiman.

Seven people were suspected to be involved in the incident, out of which two were arrested earlier. One suspect remains at large, and the police team investigating the incident said they are searching the village to arrest him.

Shaheen was paraded naked in the streets of Neelor Bala village on the instigation of a jirga that found her son guilty of rape.

Four armed men, who belonged to the same village as that of the ‘raped’ woman, allegedly disrobed the middle-aged woman before making her parade naked.

Sadia*, 24, who had alleged Shaheen’s* son Karim* of rape, said the incident was the result of a mere ‘misunderstanding’.

*Names have been changed to protect identities

COMMENTS (5)

Mirza | 13 years ago | Reply I cannot believe it. This is a conspiracy against Islam and Pakistan. We are pure people and cannot do that. The Jews, Christians and Hindus are hell bent in defaming the land of pure. It can never happen in Pakistan never did. It is the Western press that is making up these stories. Ops, I forgot it is a Pakistani paper and local press. I can recall, a similar incident happened in Rajanpur during the military rule of Zia! However, I cannot ever recall that any "elder" has been punished for his crime against innocent women.

Ahmed | 13 years ago | Reply Make all the Jirag's member naked and parade them on the street too and telecast it live on all the channels. This is why we are being humiliating and insulting by our so called leader. No society can make any progress if there is no justice.

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Chilli | 13 years ago | Reply Abolish jirga system immediately. Government is loosing control of every area of society. Pray for Pakistan.

fahad soomro | 13 years ago | Reply jirgas are nothing but a pathetic attempt by men to extend their power over society.why don't we ever see women sitting in jirgas passing out judgements and punishments? why are only men allowed to sit and give punishments of marrying off 9 year old female children to 40 year old paedophiles?? why are these jirga men fixated with sex,why are all their punishments in the form of sex? rape the women of the man who has wronged you,take away the daughters of the man who has stolen from you. When will our men realise that women are not property like cows or goats? why does our society still regard women as personal ,tradeable property? The sick misogynists holding such jirgas should be hanged till death so that an example is set for future generations of these people.

sarmad shahid | 13 years ago | Reply our society has always regarded women as inferior beings,a liability to their family, an open risk of bringing dishonour to their family.This misogyny is ingrained deeply into our psyche.our girls are told from birth how sinful their bodies are and how they should always feel ashamed of their bodies and their gender. boys are always told their aim in life is to have an excellent career while girls are brainwashed from birth into believing their only aim in life is to get married and produce sons for their 'majazi khudas'. on top of this unfair and discriminatory religious laws serve to further weaken a woman's place in society.The ulema and mullahs always preach how a woman's place is inside the chaar diwari trapped for life,only to function as a baby producing machine and to serve her 'majazi khuda' as his slave and further the mullahs preach that husbands havea been given the right to abuse and torture their wives as the mullahs say that religion allows the beating up of one's wife. until religious misogyny is eradicated women won't progress in our country.

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