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| India-Pakistan |
| Waiting for justice |
| 2017-08-01 |
| [DAWN] While the country obsesses over the course of justice as it plays out at the highest levels, there is little capacity to consider how it is typically meted out in our country. Last week, while we awaited the Supreme Court verdict on the Panama case, reports emerged that a panchayat in Muzaffarabad, in the Multan area, ordered the rape of a 16-year-old girl to settle scores after her brother was accused of raping a 12-year-old girl. The teenager was raped allegedly before the 40-odd members of the panchayat and her parents. Several days passed before the girls’ mothers lodged FIRs, and the police began to arrest panchayat members. Media coverage of this informal act of justice got the formal wheels of justice turning: the chief justice has taken suo motu ...a legal term, from the Latin. Roughly translated it means I saw what you did, you bastard... notice of the panchayat ruling, Shahbaz Sharif |
| Posted by:Fred |