 MIANWALI: Wan Bhachran police have arrested nine people after registering a case against 13 for the forced marriage of two minor girls in practise of the custom of Vani in Mianwali. This is the first case registered in Punjab since the enactment of the Vani and honour-killing law. Reportedly, five men from the Sheray Khel tribe were booked in 1955 for murdering two men from their rival Joaiey Khel tribe.
| That was... ummm... carry the 3, square root of 59... that can't be right... divide by 12... 50 years ago. |
The five fled and hid in a house in village Wichwin Bala. Muhammad Nawaz of the Joaiey Khel tribe tipped off the aggrieved party about their hideout after which men from the Joaiey Khel tribe attacked them and killed one of the alleged murderers and critically injured another. Both parties settled the dispute out of court in 1960.
All was well till the recently held local government elections when Ahmed Sher, a close relative of Nawaz, contested for the naib nazim seat of UC Muzaffarpur Shumali. Ahmed Sher went to the Sheray Khael tribe for votes who told him that they still had grudge against Nawaz, now 80.
| "And then there was that incident with great-great-grand uncle twice... no, four times removed Nizamuddin, back in 1783. We ain't fergot that, neither!" |
The Sheray Khel tribe agreed to vote for Ahmed Sher in exchange for two girls from the Nawaz’s family.
| "Hrarrr! Hand over some wenches an' we'll vote fer yez!" |
Muhammad Khan, the nephew of Nawaz, agreed to wed his two minor daughters to the boys of the Sheray Khel tribe. Asia, 5, was wedded to Amir, 18, and Fauzia, 6, was wedded to Islam, 8, on August 6, 2005.
| Got that? 5-year-old Asia got to be diddled by an 18-year-old. Fauzia and the appropriately named Islam got to play doctor together until one or the other of them is old enough to figure what to do with their pants off. |
A correspondent of a local daily unearthed the case on which the police booked 13 people under Section 310 (a) and 109 of the PPC on November 22 and arrested nine of them: three from the girls’ family and six from the boys’ family. The fathers of both the grooms said they were ready to let their sons divorce the girls.
"Hrarrr! We didn't vote fer the sonofabitch anyway! Shoulda arrested him, too!"
"How we gonna arrest him? He's a politician!" |
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