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India-Pakistan
Court moves to rescue 7-year-old girl from marriage
2004-02-01
Pak Daily Times
QUETTA: A Pakistani court has intervened to save a seven-year-old girl who was given in marriage to a 40-year-old man to settle a dispute between families, police said on Saturday.
Yes. It's another Junior Nooky story...
The bizarre bargain took place last week in the remote town of Nushki in Chaghi district. After seeing reports about the case, Chief Justice of the Balochistan High Court Raja Fayyaz ordered the police on Friday to recover the girl, named Aziza, and arrest all those involved.
"You can't marry her! She ain't weaned yet!"
"Show me where it sez in the Koran she's gotta be weaned!"
Police said Aziza’s parents had agreed to hand over their daughter for marriage as partial settlement for a dispute over the elopement three months ago of Aziza’s brother with a girl from the other family.
Oh, horrors! The wench must be killed! Get the rocks!
The seven-year-old visited the home of her would-be-husband, Pir Mohammad, for a wedding ceremony but he had not allowed her to return, as agreed, her parents alleged.
"Bring the wench to my bed! She's got the body of a five-year-old, by Gar!"
The agreement had stated that she was to stay with her parents until she attained an age suitable for consummation of the marriage, they said.
Too late now. She's prob'ly pregnant already.
Posted by:Fred Pruitt

#10  But looking on the bright side, guys, this is not only Pakiland but a "remote village" etc. Yeah, it's disgusting that such things happen in the first place, but a little encouraging that there are some marginally more civilized people in positions of authority there-- isn't it?


Posted by: wuzzalib   2004-2-1 9:46:10 PM  

#9  Is there some way to make their own nukes blow up? A nuclear wasteland would be an improvement. These people really disgust me.
Posted by: whitecollar redneck   2004-2-1 4:17:32 PM  

#8  #3

Grosse Katze,

That case was even more appaling than you stated. Here is a story in an Indian newspaper. Some of the stories I read about that case say that the so-called offense was actually arranged by the accusers to cover up that they had raped him.
Posted by: Eric Jablow   2004-2-1 4:09:23 PM  

#7  You think a Jackson joke is appropos? After all, we're discussing abuse of young GIRL here. Not his style.
Posted by: Gasse Katze   2004-2-1 3:18:12 PM  

#6  Anyone know a good Michael Jackson joke?
Posted by: Anonymous   2004-2-1 2:24:53 PM  

#5  Wonder what a Pakistani 'sex offenders list' would like if it was maintained based on western values. Is there enough disk space or paper?

We'll make room.
Posted by: badanov   2004-2-1 1:27:21 PM  

#4  Katze, we'd deforest the Amazon with just the sex offenders list in Pakistan. And the internet might not have enough room if we made a list for the entire Islamic World.
Posted by: Charles   2004-2-1 1:26:53 PM  

#3  Reminds me of the story a couple of years back when the male members of one family in the NWF got to rape the daughter of another family because her brother had committed a similar 'transgression'.
Wonder what a Pakistani 'sex offenders list' would like if it was maintained based on western values. Is there enough disk space or paper?
Posted by: Gasse Katze   2004-2-1 1:24:36 PM  

#2  "The agreement had stated that she was to stay with her parents until she attained an age suitable for consummation of the marriage"

That would be the age of 9, as per Muhammed's example.
Posted by: TS   2004-2-1 11:57:59 AM  

#1  All snark aside. As my granny would say... PINCER THE BASTARD!
Posted by: Shipman   2004-2-1 11:39:46 AM  

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