VIDEO OF TALIBAN Beating Young Girl

This is ignorance and barbarian act of violence.For the rest of the month PUKHTUNKHWA TIMES will publish reports on this incident,I welcome everyone to comment on this horrible incident.


Shariah in Swat. By Col. Riaz Jafri (Retd)


Islamabad: April 3, 2009. (PCP) Almost all TV channels showed at mid day today a 17 year old girl being publicly whipped in Swat by the Taleban under the Shariah laws imposed there for having out of the house unaccompanied by a mahram.. It was most distressing and painful to see two burly men pinning her down in a most cruel, inhuman and brutal way by holding her from the shoulders and feet and a third dispenser of the so-called Islamic Law administering the lashes very ‘manly’ on her back. The poor wretched creature was crying and howling uncontrollably with the each lash landing on her body. The most astonishing thing was that there was a throng of the most chivalrous and proud Pathans, Pukhtoons or the Pushtoons – whatever you may call them - around the helpless victim of atrocity watching the spectacle mutely either in approval or dumbfounded and afraid of uttering a word against it lest it be termed as anti-Islamic and they themselves meted out the same treatment. Well Done the Ghayur Pukhtoons of Swat. Well Done to your chivalry and manliness.

On soliciting the comments by the TV persons the intelligentsia belonging to all segments of society unequivocally and vociferously condemned the incidence. However, surprisingly though not unexpectedly, the newly elected Ameer Jama’t e Islami – Syed Munnawar Hussain – in spite of the best efforts of a TV newscaster not only not condemned the incidence but also sounded annoyed and irritated on the repeated asking for his comments in yes or no by a TV newscaster. The hypocrisy was writ too large all over and too obvious, he could not afford to say anything against his and his party’s such kith men imposing such a shariah.

I think, it is time we asked ALL religious parties and their leaders whether they condemn or approve of such acts? It is also time that the CJP took suo moto notice of it. People have great hopes from him and he must rise to the occasion. It is also time, that the Lawyers, the ML(N), the TI, the ANP, the PESA (Pakistan Ex-Servicemen Association), the Human Rights Activists and ALL other right thinking people and parties took out a long march against such atrocious enforcement of un Islamic Shariah in Swat and elsewhere in Pakistan. It is also time that the president not signed the Swat Shariah Bill and the parliament not endorsed it either.

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