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Afghanistan/South Asia |
Man weds boy in Khyber Agency |
2005-10-06 |
PESHAWAR: A jirga (tribal court) in Tirah Valley has asked a "couple" to leave the area within 24 hours or be killed after an Afghan refugee married a 16-year-old boy, a former federal minister from the Khyber Agency told Daily Times on Wednesday. The refugee, Liaqat Ali, 42, paid Rs 40,000 to the parents of 16-year-old Markeen Afridi to wed him in inaccessible Tirah Valley of the Khyber Agency bordering Peshawar. "Yes, it is true and people of the area are shocked by this gay marriage," former lawmaker Malik Waris Khan, a resident of the Khyber Agency, said. The marriage held amid usual pomp and show that was usually held to mark the wedding of a female in the tribal society, Millat Khan Afridi, an eyewitness to the marriage, was quoted as saying. "When we came to know that it was a gay marriage, many of us left the party without taking food," Afridi said. |
Posted by:Fred |
#9 That's ironic. When I think of gay "marriages", I usually think of "pomp and show" anyways, unrelated to a female wedding! |
Posted by: BA 2005-10-06 11:01 |
#8 NAMBLA could not be reached for comment. |
Posted by: Chris W. 2005-10-06 09:35 |
#7 The marriage held amid usual pomp and show that was usually held to mark the wedding of a female in the tribal society, I miss anti-aircraft guns at weddings, don't you? |
Posted by: Raj 2005-10-06 09:32 |
#6 Heaven... I'm in heaven... |
Posted by: Liaqat Ali 2005-10-06 09:04 |
#5 Ifs its truely inaccessible how did all these people get there? Osmosis. |
Posted by: Robert Crawford 2005-10-06 08:28 |
#4 Via genetic drift. |
Posted by: Shipman 2005-10-06 07:38 |
#3 in inaccessible Tirah Valley Ifs its truely inaccessible how did all these people get there? |
Posted by: BrerRabbit 2005-10-06 06:33 |
#2 someone will get it in the end |
Posted by: Captain America 2005-10-06 00:23 |
#1 They'd be welcome in Mass or SF - the Castro district, I'm sure. Of course, if they pretend publicly to be father / son, they can live anywhere in Islam with a wink and a nudge. It's being public about it that's forbidden. Islam invented "don't ask, don't tell" about a millenia ago. |
Posted by: .com 2005-10-06 00:10 |