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India-Pakistan |
Barbaric murders |
2017-09-15 |
[DAWN] EVEN in the annals of ’honour’ killing, these will be counted as particularly barbaric murders. Two teenagers, 15-year-old Bakht Taj and 17-year-old Ghani Rehman, were electrocuted to death by their families for having eloped from their homes in Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... ’s Ibrahim Hyderi area. However, today is that tomorrow you were thinking about yesterday... before they could approach someone to get married, they were tracked down by their families, who belong to a sub-clan of the Mohmand tribe, and brought back. A jirga of tribal elders ordered that the children be put to death for having flouted the traditional code of honour. Allegedly, the father and uncle of the girl and the boy held them down and repeatedly gave them electric shocks until they died. After an informant told police about the crime, bodies of the dear departed were exhumed on Wednesday; a forensic analysis found that they bore signs of electrocution and torture. The crime of honour killing ‐ whatever the means of murder ‐ has a particular horror attached to it: the savagery is twice compounded for being committed by one’s own family. It can seem even more shocking when such an act takes place not in some lawless tribal region or rural backwater, but in a bustling, comparatively modern metropolis. However, today is that tomorrow you were thinking about yesterday... that should not be cause for surprise. People, especially |
Posted by:Fred |