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| Jury-decreed marriage: Pak Groom lets friends rape his bride |
| 2005-05-29 |
| Jury-decreed marriage: Groom lets friends rape his bride MULTAN: In an act of revenge, a woman was gang-raped with the consent of her in-laws by three people on her wedding night in Dera Ghazi Khan, police said. Ghulam Hussain, the father of the victim Kaneez Kubra, told reporters that his daughter was married to Mujahid Hussain on April 28, as ordered by a panchayat (local jury) under the wani custom since Kaneez's brother Abdul Majid had sexual relations with Mujahid's sister Sumera. After the wedding, Kaneez Kubra went to the groom's home. Her husband stayed with her in their room till 11pm and then left. Afterwards, Mujahid's grandfather Shahroo Khan and his mother Mukhtar came in and told the bride that the wedding was just an excuse to exact revenge on Majid for outraging Sumera's modesty. Mujahid Hussain then invited his three friends Muhammad Rafiq, Shabbir Muhammad and Abdul Majid Almani, who gang-raped the bride. The next day, Mujahid Hussain took her to the house of his friend Ghulam Mustafa, who also assaulted her. On April 30, when Ghulam Hussain and other relatives arrived to take Kaneez back as per tradition, she related the story to her father. When Ghulam Hussain approached the police, they refused to register a case against the groom and his friends. He then approached high authorities and Civil Lines police instituted a case on the orders of the Dera Ghazi Khan district police officer (DPO). "We have registered a case against seven people — Mujahid Hussain (groom), his friends Muhammad Rafiq, Shabbir Muhammad, Abdul Majid Almani and Ghulam Mustafa, his grandfather Shahroo Khan, and mother Mukhtar Mai under sections 10/4, 19/2and 7/79 of Islamic law and detailed a team to arrest them, DPO Dera Ghazi Khan Salman Chaudhry told Daily Times. Investigation Officer Zulfikar Ali Qureshi said the police were making raids to arrest the accused but they had left the area and gone into hiding after the case was registered against them. staff report |
| Posted by:john |
| #5 How many honor killings and "honor rapes", if that's the right term to describe this barbarity, happen in Pak each year? Anyone have any hard stats? Why do the moderate muslims - who, we're assured, are the vast majority of muslims worldwide - tolerate this? |
| Posted by: thibaud (aka lex) 2005-05-29 23:35 |
| #4 Vile. Just...vile. |
| Posted by: Tony (UK) 2005-05-29 20:59 |
| #3 I hope the bride has male witnesses who will testify on her behalf otherwise she risks being stoned for 'Adultery'.... |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2005-05-29 20:53 |
| #2 moderate muslims watch? STFU |
| Posted by: Frank G 2005-05-29 20:38 |
| #1 I'm afraid to ask how old the bride was. It sounds like that place is well on its way to becoming "Bartertown" al a Mad Max. |
| Posted by: Lone Ranger 2005-05-29 20:19 |