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Relatives kill teenage girl for 'honour' on tribal jirga's orders in Khyber Agency
 [DAWN] A teenage girl was reportedly murdered by her relatives allegedly on the orders of a tribal jirga in Khyber Agency... the place to go if you've got an Indiana Jones hat and whip. Chock full of high adventure and treacherous Pathans. You should really train up to it, though... on Friday, in what the local political administration said was a case of 'honour' killing. The jirga had issued the orders to kill 13-year-old Naghma after it emerged that she had allegedly attempted to run away with two young men, an official said. After she allegedly bravely ran away with them, the boys abandoned Naghma during the journey "out of fear". She was later taken into custody by the security forces and released on bail upon assurance by the girl's relatives that they would not kill her, Assistant Political Agent Niaz Mohammad told local news hounds. However, some men learn by reading. A few learn by observation. The rest have to pee on the electric fence for themselves... despite their assurances, Naghma's relatives shot her dead three days later inside a house in Landi Kotal tehsil and silently buried her body in a local graveyard. A local government official told this scribe on condition of anonymity that the girl's killer is in the custody of the political administration. Meanwhile, ...back at the cheese factory, all the pieces finally fell together in Fluffy's mind... a journalist belonging to Khyber Agency claimed that the two boys who allegedly bravely ran away with the girl are in the custody of the same jirga. He claimed that the boys' relatives will make every effort to secure their freedom, but it is possible that they too will be killed on the jirga's orders. Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... Governor Iqbal Zafar Jhagra has sought a report into the incident from the political agent. He said the teenage girl's murder was contrary to human rights ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... The National Assembly earlier this year passed a bill giving legal and constitutional cover to the centuries old jirga and panchayat systems in the country with a view to ensure speedy resolution of petty civil matters and reduce the burden of litigations on the courts. Posted by: Fred 2017-07-01 |
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