A grand jirga in May last year had condemned five women and two boys over a video made on a cell phone. PHOTO: FILE
A Kohistan court sent seven people arrested for the murder of three brothers to Dasu District Jail on judicial remand on Thursday. The decision followed the refusal of the accused to confess to the crime, police told The Express Tribune.
Sher Wali, Rafiuddin and Shah Faisal, who were members of the Salehkhel tribe, were gunned down when seven men, with five accomplices, barged into their home in Gaddar village on January 3. Five people, including three women, were also injured in the attack.
The siblings were allegedly punished for the crime of their younger brothers, of whom a video which showed them clapping and singing with women from the Azadkhel tribe was leaked in May 2012.
The two boys and the five women in the video were condemned to death by an Azadkhel tribe but the two boys managed to escape.
When the Azadkhels failed to find any clue to the boys, they decided to take revenge by attacking their brothers.
A total of 12 people were nominated in the FIR, including two prayer leaders and a jirga head for abetting the murderers. Those accused of the murder itself were Jin Taseer, Mukhtasar, Awal Khan, Shamsuddin, Taoos, Yadool and Munshi Khan.
They were arrested from a remote village of Kaliyar and were handed over to police for four days remand for investigation. They were then sent to jail on a 14-day judicial remand.
Published in The Express Tribune, January 18th, 2013.
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What a lawless backward country.