Author: Staff Report
Publication: Daily Times
Date: July 9, 2010
URL: http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2010%5C07%5C09%5Cstory_9-7-2010_pg7_17
Women's Action Forum (WAF) is outraged at
reports of yet another "judgement of stoning to death due to illicit
relations", pronounced by a self-styled jirga convened in Kala Dhaka,
wherein it was alleged that a man and a woman were seen walking together in
a field in Madakhail.
WAF noted that Kala Dhaka was a Provincially
Administered Tribal Area (PATA) until it was converted into a settled area
and renamed 'Torghar' last week, after which it might be excused for demanding
the writ of the state, the pronouncements of the judiciary, and the provincial
law enforcement system to be de jure and de facto functional.
WAF states that there appears to be no law
enforcement and no heed paid to the higher judiciary (including the Supreme
Court's) declaring jirgas and panchayats to be illegal parallel systems of
"justice" and instructing the respective federal and provincial
governments to eradicate them, and to punish those who participate in them.
