Initiating the hearing, a three-member bench called for a report from the chief secretary Balochistan and the deputy commissioner of Dera Bugti and issued an order for the arrest of suspects involved.
During the hearing, DC Dera Bugti informed the court that the Vani incident was a month old and the jirga was held in Barkhan instead of Dera Bugti.
He also said that the number of girls bartered was seven.
Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry inquired what action had been taken if the matter was a month old.
The advocate general replied saying the girls had not been handed over as yet.
Mir Tariq Masoori Bugti, a lawmaker in the Balochistan Assembly, is said to have conducted the jirga, which was attended by tribal elders and notable locals, in the Baikar area of Phelawagh.
The court issued summons to Masoori, the girls’ parents and all members of the jirga.
Earlier, it had been reported that 13 young girls had been bartered to settle a blood feud between two tribes in Dera Bugti.
The girls — aged between four and 16 — were given in Vani by a tribal jirga which arbitrated a five-month-old blood feud between the Baloch tribes of Masoori and Shahwani Masoori. Both are sub-clans of the Bugti tribe.
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@Nobody: "Pointless post."
You think ? No wonder you are a nobody...
@Jat: What about it? That's one issue this is another issue. Pointless post.
@dr zakir hussain soomro: Really? Looks more like a wrong cocktail of both
To be fair the SC can and should take suo motu in this case. However, they should ask the Baluchistan HC or local judges to do their job. SC has too many cases like Asghar Khan, killings in Baluchistan, Karachi, Shia ethnic cleansing, OBL's presence in army base, and other cases of national interest and importance that require SC's immediate attention and provincial HC cannot deal with them.
Why blame judiciary or the police?. What about the society, educated people, mullahs, politicians? Is it not blasphemy to uproot Qur'an and practice vani
When is the Supreme Court going to take suo motu notice of itself????!
DC Dera Bugti should be fired at once. Do it and see how Bureaucrats (including police since most police officers are members of the PSP) rush to take action against such practices in the future.
neither law of Islam nor law of pakistan
Bartering children to settle disputes is clearly illegal -- so where's the govt? Does everything have to end up being handled by the SC in Pakistan? Pathetic.
@Jat: Well... Mr. Iftikhar Chaudhary will not take an action for SWAT, as he is the believer of the same fundamentalism that drives those barbarians.
State of the Union of Law and Order in the kingdom of CJP:
Hindu teenage girls (Rinkle Kumari etc)= Converted to Islam forcefully Christian teenage girls (Rishma Mesih) =Get charged with blasphemy Kohistan teenage girls for dancing= get killed Balochistan teenage girls= bartered for someone else’s crime
Is it cursed to be a teenage girl in Pakistan under the tutelage of Religion of Peace?
This guy will take suomoto of mice's being killed but I can challenge he will not notice shia killing because of his sympathy to saudi version of islam which consider heretic shia blood worth spilling.
How do we know that these girls will be not treated like Rinkle Kumari and allow Baloch people to migrate to Iran or Afghanistan?
This is nothing but an eyewash. First of all why not arrest the person who killed some one and charge him with first or second degree murder to let the population know that only accused get punished and not the family members associated with the accused. Order a speedy trial to show that law and order situation has improved.
Summons the local police officer for not arresting the accused.
Second summons Mir Tariq Masoori Bugti, a lawmaker in the Balochistan Assembly to the SC and ask why the life in prison of the man accused was traded for the life in prison for these seven girls?
Ban all public office holders from attending the Jirga or criminal matters.
Worthless judiciary. They have released thousands of terrorists, the like of whom attacked Malala Yousafzai. These Judges are afraid of terrorists and want to save their skin.
What about those unfortunates who went unnoticed???
Supreme court should stay out of politics It is only complicating things Issue like balochistan can onlybe solved by political skills anddemocratic process
The SCP should realize that jirgas are functioning because the moribund lower courts are not effective.
At this rate, entire Pakistan could be declared a tribal area.
When "Supreme Court" will take suo motu notice on Shia Killings?
And what about this ?
SWAT: Winner of the National Peace Award, Malala Yousufzai was injured along with two other women when unidentified men opened fire on her car