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| Sentenced to death for singing at wedding |
| 2012-05-29 |
| Four women and two men have been sentenced to death in northern Pakistan for singing and dancing at a wedding, police say. Clerics issued a decree after a mobile phone video emerged of the six enjoying themselves in a remote village in the mountainous district of Kohistan, 176km north of the capital Islamabad. Pakistani authorities in the area said local clerics had ordered the punishment over allegations that the men and women danced and sang together in Gada village, in defiance of strict tribal customs that separate men and women at weddings. "The local clerics issued a decree to kill all four women and two men shown in the video," district police officer Abdul Majeed Afridi told AFP. "It was decided that the men will be killed first, but they ran away so the women are safe for the moment. I have sent a team to capture them and am waiting to hear some news," he said, adding that the women had been confined to their homes. Afridi said the events stemmed from a dispute between two tribes and that there was no evidence the men and women had been mingling. "All of them were shown separately in the video. I've seen the video taken on a cell phone myself. It shows four women singing and a man dancing in separate scenes and then another man sitting in a separate shot," he said. "This is tribal enmity. The video has been engineered to defame the tribe," he added. The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan said at least 943 women and girls were murdered last year for allegedly defaming their family's honour. |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #14 "Cel-e-brate good times, C'mon!" |
| Posted by: Frank G 2012-05-29 22:00 |
| #13 Heathens! |
| Posted by: Fat Bob Unotch3711 2012-05-29 21:56 |
| #12 If it was "Color My World" I can almost understand. |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2012-05-29 19:18 |
| #11 If we sent Roseanne to Pakistain to sing to them, John, would that be considered a war crime? ;-p |
| Posted by: Barbara 2012-05-29 18:41 |
| #10 Hey, if we can endure Roseanne Barr singing the Star Spangled Banner, I'd think Pakinstain ought to be able to put up with singing and dancing at a wedding. Must be some kind of honor killing thingee. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2012-05-29 17:24 |
| #9 Enjoying themselves? Nothing good can come of that! They're lucky they got away with just getting executed. |
| Posted by: Muggsy Poodle4893 2012-05-29 13:15 |
| #8 Understandable edict if it was the 'Chicken Dance'. |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2012-05-29 11:50 |
| #7 Someone, quick, let's set up a new/international version of "Dancing with the Stars," pronto! |
| Posted by: BA 2012-05-29 10:02 |
| #6 Maybe they should have stuck to the Safety Dance. |
| Posted by: Secret Asian Man (assignment New Delhi) 2012-05-29 09:23 |
| #5 Enjoying themselves? Enjoying themselves! Off with their heads! |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2012-05-29 09:22 |
| #4 Anyone got some shots of the "clerics" visiting 'ugo and dancing some Salsa? Now that would spin those turbans. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2012-05-29 08:39 |
| #3 and knowing that lot of hypocrits, a very high chance of being true! |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2012-05-29 05:11 |
| #2 Shouldn't be that difficult to hack something together to defame the clerics, should it? |
| Posted by: gorb 2012-05-29 04:51 |
| #1 Whoa, so these Tribals hate the Tango, the Cha-Cha, + Cell Phone photo'ing??? The Hustle??? Its a given that RiverDance would be toast. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2012-05-29 03:16 |