Kohistan Jirga case: Salekhel tribe asks Azadkhel to own killing of women

Otherwise clear the Salakhel men they plan to kill for making the video of Azadkhel women.


Our Correspondent June 11, 2012
Kohistan Jirga case: Salekhel tribe asks Azadkhel to own killing of women

KOHISTAN: The tribal elders of Salekhel tribe on Sunday decided to call a grand jirga of other tribes asking the Azadkhel tribe to either declare the killing of their five women or clear the Salakhel men from the allegation of being Ghul (liable to be executed under Kohistani custom).

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.

COMMENTS (9)

Mirza | 12 years ago | Reply

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.

Azim | 12 years ago | Reply

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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