 DIR: Anyone reporting an honour killing case to the police or filing a case with the court will be killed by the jirga (tribal court) since the publicising of such cases has brought a bad name to the area, Malik Faiz Muhammad, a member of the Nihag-Wari jirga in Upper Dir, said on Friday.
| Good move. Direct. To the point. Y'see, it's not the fact that women are chopped up, splashed with acid, shot, or stabbed for trading smiles with a fellow that causes people to regard the area as a stench and a pestilence, but the fact that those actions are publicized. |
The Nihag-Dara Wari jirga had issued a controversial verdict in favour of honour killing around 15 days ago, declaring it a permissible act.
| "Yeah, sure. Go ahead. Chop their heads off. We got plenty of women to go around, since our menfolk kill each other in large enough numbers in pointless violence..." |
A Wari police station official said that over 150 people had attended the jirga, but Malik Faiz told Daily Times that the jirga consisted of more than 4,000 people representing the entire area. “We stick to our verdict that honour killing is permissible and those who commit it will not be liable to any punishment. We will also not allow the aggrieved party to report the case to the police or file the case before a court. We will kill those who will violate the jirga verdict,” he said. Malik Faiz said that the jirga would investigate such cases and punish those found guilty on its own. He said that the jirga members were ready to sacrifice their lives to uphold their verdict.
| Not that they're drama queening or anything, mind you... |
Certain union council nazims also attended the jirga called by the Painda Khel tribe and endorsed the decision of the jirga. |