Pakistan elders 'ordered girl's killing' in Abbottabad
Source: BBC
Police in Pakistan say village elders ordered the murder of a teenage girl because she had helped a school friend to elope.
The 16-year-old was kidnapped from her home near Abbottabad, in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and put inside a vehicle that was set alight, police said.
Graphic images of her body have been circulated on social media.
Police say the victim's mother and the leader of the local council, or jirga, are among several people arrested.
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5 May 2016 Asia
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Source: DAWN
RASHID JAVED UPDATED ABOUT 4 HOURS AGO
ABBOTTABAD: The chilling murder of a 16-year-old girl strangled and set on fire in Galyat's Makol village has been linked to the orders given by a local jirga last week, police said Thursday.
Abbottabad police said a 15-member jirga called by the Makol village councillor Pervez ordered for the deceased, Amber, to be killed and set on fire as punishment for helping her friend escape the village to marry of her free will. Thirteen members have been arrested and due to appear before an anti-terrorism court, including the victim's mother, said police.
When the jirga ended after a six-hour meeting on April 28, the girl was taken from her home to an abandoned house where she was drugged, killed, and placed in the backseat of a parked van. The van was then doused with petrol and set on fire.
The charred body of the teenage girl was found in a torched Suzuki van in Donga Gali on Friday. Police recovered the drugs from the abandoned house near the site, as well as the can of petrol used to start the fire.
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Akicita
(1,196 posts)car and the car was set on fire? What a horrific way to be killed.
The Europeans must be thanking their lucky stars that most of the refugees streaming in are young men of military age. Not that many elders.
MariaThinks
(2,495 posts)blood of innocent people.
elders - young - they have the same cultural way of thinking.
StarTrombone
(188 posts)This kind of crap wouldn't be happening.
Can you blame them?
EX500rider
(10,532 posts)Akicita
(1,196 posts)squarely placed at our own feet. Imperialism and all that.
Mosby
(16,168 posts)leftynyc
(26,060 posts)thingy or you need help. Serious, fucking help.
MariaThinks
(2,495 posts)either way, I'm grieving for the girl that was murdered. are you?
Akicita
(1,196 posts)StarTrombone
(188 posts)n/t
EX500rider
(10,532 posts)MariaThinks
(2,495 posts)maxsolomon
(32,992 posts)super easy to add : just : sarcasm :, but no spaces.
TipTok
(2,474 posts)Best example I've seen in a while.
leftynyc
(26,060 posts)involved in this barbarity? Is there any prayer these animals will get what's coming to them or will they quietly be let out of prison by some asshole judge who thinks she had it coming? What kind of fucking culture thinks this is appropriate? One that belongs in the dustbin of history so we can all crap on it.
Akicita
(1,196 posts)Not me.
leftynyc
(26,060 posts)like that long ago. Them not wanting to face what's right in front of them is entirely their problem.
Akicita
(1,196 posts)MariaThinks
(2,495 posts)the daughter is being saved
leftynyc
(26,060 posts)It goes against human nature.
Hekate
(90,202 posts)It was the mothers who bound the feet of their little daughters in China, bending and breaking the bones, to make them sexually attractive and marriageable.
It is the mothers in Africa even today who send their young daughters to experience the removal of their exterior genitalia (FGM) without anesthesia, to keep them pure for marriage and make sure they never stray.
How do things ever change?
The only instance of such a heinous practice being completely wiped out I know of is China, which at a certain level of society was already in transition away from footbinding due to the schools run by Christian missionaries. What made it a reality for all girls was the Communist Revolution, which outlawed the practice and enforced it at gunpoint in village by village inspections.
Change comes with political will and a profound change in the status of women. Human rights are women's rights, and women's rights are human rights.
tabasco
(22,974 posts)The world will be better when aliens implement the Screwfly Solution.
MariaThinks
(2,495 posts)Akicita
(1,196 posts)to allow for assimilation to European values. In my opinion, they don't have the stomach to do that. I think Europe is screwed.
We do a much better job of assimilating refugees and migrants to our culture here in the US. We need to be vigilant that we keep that up.
Akicita
(1,196 posts)people in all cultures around the world. There is a struggle between good vs. evil going on now as always. We can help make a difference by supporting the good and opposing evil. That would be a lot more productive than just wishing for aliens to implement the Screwfly Solution.
tabasco
(22,974 posts)and used our technology to build devices capable of destroying all life on the planet.
Screwfly or superflu is the only hope for this biosphere.
Akicita
(1,196 posts)tabasco
(22,974 posts)Some prefer to ignore and avoid the truth.
StarTrombone
(188 posts)And Polar Bears are cuddly little fuzz balls
ReRe
(10,597 posts)... infidels (of no religious belief.) What kind of effing belief is it that we all call ourselves and defend?? Is our "God" better than their "God?" When our bombs and drones and artillery kill innocents, our "God" is no better.
Seriously. What kind of effing Gods are humans worshiping these days?
I think "God" is man's excuse to take another person's life! They kill indiscriminately, and then say "God made me do it." or "God told me it was alright. or "God said so." We are no better than our so-called enemies. A bunch of GD heathens.
All of us human beings, the world over, need to stop the killing.
Someone tell me... W T F are we fighting for? Why fight? Why kill?
WhyTF even LIVE? Do we live just to be used and killed?
Someone please tell me... I'm having a breakdown here! WHY?
MariaThinks
(2,495 posts)was caused by the muslim/Islamic culture in Pakistan.
ReRe
(10,597 posts)... the first thing that popped into my head while ago was this:
Stay away from Pakistan!
And if one is a Pakastani, he too could say "Stay away from America!"
It doesn't matter where one is from. We're all on the same planet. Stop the effing killing.
Eff politics!
MariaThinks
(2,495 posts)ReRe
(10,597 posts)You just quit. Call a world-wide truce and shut down the weapon manufacturers. That's what you do. And if it throws millions of people out of work, then so effing be it. Shame on us all for buying into the MIC and taking those God-forsaking jobs that support killing all over the GD world. It's far past time for everyone to wake up from their fundamentalist evangelical trance and realize what they have done, propping up the MIC. Onward Christian Soldier, my ass. We've been killing the environment, wildlife and human beings for so long we think it's NORMAL. It's not normal. We can not call ourselves civilized if we continue on into perpetuity with this zeal for death and destruction.
valerief
(53,235 posts)Akicita
(1,196 posts)power stay in power. They invent religious doctrine to further this end.
Well said...
Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)for this kind of thing?
Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)Absolutely horrible.
CanonRay
(14,038 posts)Differences in cultures be damned.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)They deserve the same fate as their innocent victim. Of course, this is Pakistan so they will get off with a slap on the wrist and probably do it again.
romanic
(2,841 posts)Do they really believe killing thier own daughters in hideous ways will bring them closet to "Allah"?