A three-member bench headed by Chief Justice Anwar Zaheer Jamali heard an appeal against the Balochistan
...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it...
High Court verdict.
The parents of the dear departed Reshma Bibi appeared before the bench and said they had pardoned the accused Abdul Sattar. The chief justice remarked that the Lahore High Court had ruled that in ’Karo Kari’ cases there are certain conditions for compromise.
The accused counsel, Zahoor-ul-Haq Chisti, argued that the honour killing is a compoundable offence. Justice Azmat Saeed Sheikh said killing in the name of honour is not of individual but of the whole tribe.
However,
denial ain't just a river in Egypt...
the counsel contended that under section 338 (C) of Pakistain Penal Code there is no hurdle in compromise in the honour killing cases, adding the Balochistan High Court had dismissed the prosecution application to enhance the punishment from life imprisonment to death sentence.
According to the case Reshma Bibi was declared ’Siakari’ by her husband Shoukat Ali. She had taken refuge at the Kot of Sardar Yar Muhammad Jamali but when she was shifted from the Kot of Jamali to Dar-ul-Aman her husband Shoukat with the help of Abdul Sattar killed her in May 2011.
The dear departed mother lodged an FIR in Police Station Usta Muhammad on 28-05-2011 against Shoukat Ali and Abdul Sattar. The Sessions Judge, Usta Muhammad, Balochistan, awarded Abdul Sattar for life in jail for ’Qatl-e-Amd’ as ’Tazir’ under section 302 (b) of Pakistain Penal Code. The court, however, acquitted Shoukat Ali by giving benefit of doubt.
Abdul Sattar later filed an appeal in the Balochistan High Court, Sibi, against the Sessions court, which was dismissed. The accused later entered into a compromise with the dear departed family, which they accepted.