Kohistan Jirga case: Salekhel tribe asks Azadkhel to own killing of women
The jirga of Salekhel tribe was held at Shariyal Shrakot village of Palas Tehsil where over a thousand tribesmen gathered to discuss the emerging situation after the video scandal that led to the alleged killing of five women.
According to Qari Abdullah and Muhammad Tahir the two elders of Salekhels, the jirga discussed at length the issue of declaring the four women of Azadkhel tribe and two men from Salekhel tribe as Ghul and later condemning them to death by a Jirga of Azadkhel tribe.
The participants expressed their concern over the concealment of information of killing of five women by Azadkhels before the fact-finding mission of human rights activists and the administration.
Tahir said the tribesmen decided that they would call a grand jirga of other tribes to appoint a mediator.
The mediator would contact the Azadkhel tribe asking them to follow the centuries-old customs of Kohistan and publicly declare the killing of women and if they had not followed the custom of killing women declared Ghul, they should clear their two men already arrested by the police, from the allegation of being liable to be killed.
The mediator would also ask Azadkhel to also clarify whether they would only kill the two men seen in the cell phone video or there were some other people they have planned to murder equalling the killing of their five women, Tahir said.
Published in The Express Tribune, June 11th, 2012.
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When one thinks that we have sunk to the lowest, we go even lower. What a sick way to do justice, as if human lives have no value.
Poor women of Pakistan! Jirga should also be about as to why was is ok to approve killing of women in first place - Pakistan is a country of hypcracy where ignorant men do what they like and there is no Islam or culture to stop them doing so, while when a women does something similar they are punished by death!
We are living in dark ages, and this our culture and this interpretation of Islam will take us no where- may God help us to get rid of these sick clerics and so called Islamic scholars - ameen
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Care to enlighten us that how these jirgas are better than justice systems around the world?
This state of affairs is abhorring. In the 21st century, we have a widening and ever expanding influence of tribal traditions and Jirgas to determine that who lives and who dies. One may ask if these areas fall under the jurisdiction of state or are still tribal territories with their own laws based on traditions.
These Jirgas are far better than formal justice systems all around the world.
Half of Pakistan is out of the reach of the government, but we want Kashmir to be given to us so that there will be a Greater Lawless Pakistan. This is not Azadi but Jungle Raj.
Sicking. Sadly the state has failed to implement its' writ giving strength to Jirgas and so-called customs.
Good move to bring the truth in open.