Jirga murders: KP govt flies in team for Kohistan ‘cover-up’
Their mission was to convince the Azadkhel tribesmen to help the government prove that the said women were safe in their homes and the evidence should be admissible in the Supreme Court that has fixed June 20 for hearing the case, sources said.
The team comprising Maulana Asmatullah former provincial minister of MMA, PML-N district president Syed Gul Badshah, Moulvi Javed the alleged head of the controversial jirga and DSP Palas Bazimir Khan was sent to Seertaiy village of Peech Bela via helicopter, official sources said.
The trip came ahead of a July 16 judicial commission tour of the area. The commission is headed by a woman additional judge from Swabi.
Journalists face threats
The journalists, who broke the news of the jirga decree and later covered the alleged killing of five women on the orders of a jirga in Kohistan district, are facing threats from the local tribes and the administration.
Shamsur Rehman, a stringer for a local Urdu daily, said that during an encounter with a local journalist the Hazara division commissioner blamed the media persons of Kohistan and Hazara for maligning the Kohistani customs by exposing the murders of the women.
Qari Saeed, a senior journalist, said that the commissioner told him that as a journalist he was slinging mud on the honour of Kohistan. Senior police officials of the district were provoking the local tribes against the journalist calling them traitors of Kohistan.
DSP Palas, Bazimir Khan, rejected the report that he or his senior officers had ever hurled any threat to the media persons.
Bazimir Khan asserted that the women were alive and would remain unharmed.
Published in The Express Tribune, June 15th, 2012.
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Even the CJP could not get the girls produced in the court and this just goes to show that the Pak Govt has no control whatsoever in the area. Ladies and Gentlemen, please join me in congratulating the Tribal Kingdom of Kohistan for obtaining independence from Pakistan.
God save the hairy mountain ladies of Kohistan from the awful jirga of language interpreters.
What i fail to understand is whether our so called religious clergy is working for safegaurding and promoting Islam or the tribal barbaric customs?
Just look at the country's situation at the hands of these selfish Mullah's ... no one is safe and we keep on receiving news of human rights violations all in the name of islam. Shame on them
Yes thats the Question why are they not bringing the them in front. Bring them and finish the case.
If the said victims are still alive why can't they be produced before the Supreme court of Pakistan. The Commissioner of Kohistan district must understand that there is no honor in killing the defenseless weaker sex, just to restore one's honor. Honor is in protecting innocent from being killed in the name of tradition, not to facilitate it.
@Tch tch:
tch tch...you seem to be supporting the jirga...its simple to prove, bring the girls in fron tof the media and court....why can you not do this......
Azadkhel tribesmen to help the government prove that the said women were safe in their homes and the evidence should be admissible in the Supreme Court Look up "Cover up" in the dictionary. This isnt it.The Media ppl involved in this farce need to be hung by their ears. Published w/o a shred of evidence based on the statements of a deranged man....
More innocent victims dead, and all this government is doing is to cover up! Shame on it!