...a backwoods district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa distinguished by being even more rustic than is the norm among the local Pashtuns....
on the orders of the Supreme Court to ascertain the status of the five women suspected of having been murdered confirmed on Thursday that four of the women were alive, DawnNews reported.
The court had been hearing a suo motu
...a legal term, from the Latin. Roughly translated it means
I saw what you did, you bastard...
notice on the issue since reports came up that holy mans had allegedly issued orders for the killing of four women and two men after a mobile phone video emerged of the six singing and dancing at a wedding in a remote village in Kohistan.
According to allegations levelled by Mohammad Afzal, a relative of the women, the four women seen in the video and another woman had been killed by their relatives in the village of Pales.
Speaking to media representatives from Kohistan, rights activist Farzana Bari said that four of the women were alive.
Bari is a member of the fact-finding delegation sent to the northwestern region in the case.
However,
there's more than one way to skin a cat...
Bari said that it would not be possible to produce the women before the court on Thursday.
Bari said she had personally met at least two of the women who she said were well. She further said that their bodies bore no marks of physical torture.
The activist said that the team had also recorded a video of the women.
Mohammad Afzal reiterates claim
However,
man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them...
Afzal, a brother of one of the men in the video, reiterated that the women had been killed.
Speaking to media representatives outside the Supreme Court, Afzal again said that the women had been killed and their throats had been slit.
He said the women were killed on May 30 on the orders of a holy man who led a 40 to 50-member tribal jirga.