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2009-04-07 India-Pakistan

NWFP govt probably won't produce Swat flogging victim in court

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Posted by Fred 2009-04-07 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top
File under: Govt of Pakistan

#1 Move it along. Nuthin to see here...

A Pakistani teenage girl at the center of national outrage over a video purporting to show her public flogging by the Taliban reportedly told an Islamic judge and a provincial official that the incident never happened.

The video, shown last week by Pakistani television and widely posted on the Web, shows the crying 17-year-old girl being held down by several men including a man identified as her brother as a member of the Taliban beats her.

The incident reportedly took place between two and five weeks ago in the Swat Valley village of Kala Killay. The video has sparked nationwide condemnation and demonstrations challenging the government's decision to allow Shariah law into the Taliban-controlled region.

Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani called for an immediate inquiry and Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry recently restored to office ordered police and government officials from the north-western territory to bring the girl to court for questioning.

But the girl, identified as Chand Bibi, instead was interviewed at her home by an Islamic judge and a local government commissioner, and reportedly told them that the beating never happened.

"She requested the judge and the commissioner to spare her from appearing in the court in Islamabad," said provincial Information Minister Mian Iftikhar Hussain said, the Times of India reported.

Hussain said that upon questioning by the Islamic judge, she denied neighbors' claims that she had been dragged from her home, held down and flogged. She also denied reports that she had been charged with having an illicit relationship with a local man who witnesses claim also was beaten or that the Taliban forced the two to marry, the Times reported.

Instead, Hussain said, the girl told the judge the man was her husband, and that the video was a fake distributed to disrupt the peace process in the region.

So...does this get the Joooos off the hook?

Posted by tu3031 2009-04-07 11:15|| 2009-04-07 11:15|| Front Page Top

#2 Instead, Hussain said, the girl told the judge the man was her husband, and that the video was a fake distributed to titillate the Taliwhackers

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2009-04-07 18:31|| 2009-04-07 18:31|| Front Page Top

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