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| Seven given in police custody over Kohistan killings |
| 2013-01-16 |
| [Dawn] Senior civil judge of Kohistan ...a backwoods district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa distinguished by being even more rustic than is the norm among the local Pashtuns.... Ali Gohar on Monday handed over the seven people charged with killing three brothers over the controversial dance video to police on three-day physical remand. Among the accused were Shamsuddin, Mukhtasar Khan, Awal Khan, Jintasir, Mohammad Taus, Mohammad Batual and Jehangir Khan, who were locked away Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! in different parts of district, were produced before the judge in tight security. Policemen were deployed in and outside the court in large numbers in view of the tensions over the matter, which surfaced in the middle of the last year. Senior superintendent of police, Kohistan Akbar Ali Khan told Dawn that police were likely to produce the challan ... list of charges ... of the case in the court within 14 days. He said police had arrested all the accused under Section 302 or 109 of Pakistain Penal Code and seized weapons for the killing of three brothers last weeks. |
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