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| India-Pakistan |
| Women having fun |
| 2016-12-21 |
| [DAWN] OVER the weekend, The Washington Post published a story titled ’In Pakistain, five girls were killed for having fun. Then the story took an even darker twist’. Written by Pamela Constable, the story was a follow-up of a gruesome case of five women from Kohistan ...a backwoods district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa distinguished by being even more rustic than is the norm among the local Pashtuns.... whose lives, it is very strongly suspected, came to an untoward and cruel end four years ago. All of them are said to have been killed on the orders of a jirga, after a grainy video was shared, showing them clapping and singing at a wedding ceremony. The past few months have seen some new but unsurprising developments in the case. The first of these, reported some weeks ago by the Pak media, relates to a fact-finding mission that told the Supreme Court that the women were, in fact, dead or missing; that the assertions of the elders who maintained they were alive did not appear to be true. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 'Honor Killings' has a respectable sound to it. It should be called 'Murder of Innocents' or 'Dumb F#cks Killing Their Own Family' or ... unbelievable ... |
| Posted by: BrerRabbit 2016-12-21 18:14 |
| #1 Holding your breath, are ya? |
| Posted by: Richard Aubrey 2016-12-21 08:27 |