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Afghanistan/South Asia
'Attacks were due to challenge to Baloch honour'
2005-01-19
JACOBABAD: The recent attacks on Sui gas installations were solely an angry reaction at the gang rape of a women doctor and not related to past grievances of the Baloch people, tribal chief Nawab Akbar Bugti has said. "It was nothing to do with past or future grievances and was a purely matter of Balochi ghairat (honour)," Nawab Bugti told Daily Times in an interview at his residence in Dera Bugti. Nawab Bugti, a former governor of Balochistan and chief of the Jamhoori Watan Party (JWP), said tribesmen angry at the rape had not even known where the doctor was from, which is Karachi. "It does not matter where she is from. The basic thing is that she is a woman and women and children have a very high value in Baloch culture," he said, adding that they are never harmed in warfare. "But here this heinous crime, which is so alien to our society, was committed on our land," he said. Locals had expected the registration of a case against the accused, but it was not allowed. Even the tehsildar of the area refused to consider the case, he added.
Posted by:Fred

#4  good call TU
Posted by: Frank G   2005-01-19 2:25:39 PM  

#3  This is A Typical Muslim treatment of women in Pakistan. It happens thousands of times each year.
Posted by: leaddog2   2005-01-19 2:03:48 PM  

#2  ...Foster Brooks has spoken! Make it so!
Posted by: tu3031   2005-01-19 12:30:55 PM  

#1  "...women and children have a very high value in Baloch..." yes they make good slaves and sex objects to all males of the ROP.

I am not holding my breath over the charging of the gang rapist either. Another feature of the ROP.
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom   2005-01-19 5:16:18 AM  

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