Pakistan - Burying of women alive defended in Senate

Dawn.com (Islamabad) ^ | August 30, 2008 | Ahmed Hassan

[HAL9000]

ISLAMABAD, Aug 29: Balochistan Senator Sardar Israrullah Zehri stunned the upper house on Friday when he defended the recent incident of burying alive three teenage girls and two women in his province, saying it was part of “our tribal custom.”

Senator Bibi Yasmin Shah of the PML-Q raised the issue citing a newspaper report that the girls, three of them aged between 16 and 18 years, had been buried alive a month ago for wishing to marry of their own will.

The barbaric incident took place in a remote village of Jafarabad district and a PPP minister and some other influential people were reported to have been involved. The report accused the provincial government of trying to hush up the issue.

Ms Shah said that the hapless girls and the women were first shot in the name of honour and then buried while they were alive. She also said that no criminal had been arrested so far.

Acting Chairman of Senate Jan Mohammad Jamali, who was presiding over the session, said: “Yasmin Shah should go to our society and see for herself what the situation is like there and then come back to raise such questions in the house.”

Maulana Ghafoor Haideri of the JUI-F said there was no tradition of burying women alive in Baloch society because it was against Islam’s teachings.

Jamal Leghari of PML-Q emphatically stated that there was no custom of burying people alive, adding that the Baloch people did not believe in it.

Senator Jan Jamali commented: “This is a provincial matter and it is being investigated at the provincial level and let us wait for the report of the investigation.” Leader of the Opposition Kamil Ali Agha accused the Balochistan government of ignoring the incident and said no jirga could order the burying of women alive and no law allowed anyone to commit such a crime and go unpunished. He urged the government to punish the people involved in it.

Leader of the House Mian Raza Rabbani said: “We condemn the heinous act and assure the house that a complete report on the incident would be submitted on Monday.”

[Mila]

Defending murder as “tribal custom”, what more can be said. IMO,if a country claims is to be civilized, any “tribal custom” that advocates crime of any sort, let alone murder, should be outlawed. To do otherwise is shameful and cowardly on the part of the government.

[Anti-Bubba182]

Some tribes in the Americas had human sacrifice. Evil customs
should go.

[Mila]

Most definitely!

[Caipirabob]

Balochistan Senator Sardar Israrullah Zehri stunned the upper house on Friday when he defended the recent incident of burying alive three teenage girls and two women in his province, saying it was part of “our tribal custom.”

And liberals complain when Christians display a Christmas tree. A little perspective, please...

So where's NOW on this? What about the UN? I know WE speak up about it, to the end of invading and freeing victims from these sick, freak-like "customs" and "traditions". Heck, President Bush has 20 million freed from this crap tucked under his belt alone.

Where are the rats on this? Oh, I forgot. They're dealing with the shock of future Veep Sarah Palin. They're at Home Depot shopping in the garden section right now...

[expatguy]

I wrote this a few months back and I wish all Americans enamored with diversity and multiculturalism would read it.

Cargo Cult Multiculturalism

[rawcatslyentist]

>"burying alive three teenage girls and two women in his province, saying it was part of “our tribal custom.”

How far from "custom" would it be for them to kill the infidel with nukes?.......... Oh but they're our allie.......

[wbarmy]

There is a movie called “Osama” which is about women in Taliban Afghanistan and how they were treated. The fact that every feminist in this country is not praising President Bush for freeing those women from the despicable Taliban is proof that no feminist cares about “women”, only their own power.

Iraq had rape rooms and Afghanistan had burial of women. That alone should have been enough for the feminists.

[DaBearOne]

For any to say that islam is not a junk religion, needs to look hard at this. This is not God's teachings. This is a pagan religion. Evil must be seen as it is.

[rellimpank]

—reminiscent of the perhaps apocryphal tale of the British administrator in India ,who upon being informed that the practice of burning wives on the late husband's funeral pyre was “our custom”, replied that “we too have a custom of hanging those who murder women”-—

[rellimpank]

--plucked from another thread--thanks, Kozak--

“You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours.” Sir Charles Napier

[SunkenCiv]

Note: this topic is from 8/30/2008. More from Balochistan:

Thanks HAL9000.

Balochistan Senator Sardar Israrullah Zehri stunned the upper house on Friday when he defended the recent incident of burying alive three teenage girls and two women in his province, saying it was part of "our tribal custom."

[bigheadfred]

Note: this topic is from 8/30/2008.

The more "things" change, the more they stay the same.

[Fred Nerks]

Senator Bibi Yasmin Shah

[hal ogen]

Weren’t we taught that all cultures are equal. So why the criticism? Maybe we just don’t understand...and are insensitive. moozlums are peaceful...maybe death is peaceful?

[Fred Nerks]

I’ll go along with the ‘all cultures are equal’ idea if all the muzzies stay in their own countries and don’t try to come to ours and tell us how to live.

She’s wearing a head-covering because mohammad said that the devil lives in a woman’s hair. If that passes for ‘culture’ they need to burn that @#$%$*& koran and find the twenty-first century.