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India-Pakistan
Burying women alive not part of Pashtun traditions: ANP
2008-09-03
Awami National Party (ANP)'s working committee member Gul Mina Bilal has said that burying women alive was not part of the Pakhtun traditions.
"No, no! We always kill 'em first!"
Addressing a seminar at a local hotel on Tuesday, she said the religion Islam also did not allow such inhuman acts. Condemning the incident of burying five women alive in Babakot village of Balochistan, she said case should be registered against those responsible under the anti-terrorism act. She said the present ANP government has given confidence to the investors many of whom have expressed willingness to invest in the province. She said airline services of Australia and Germany, who had stopped flights to Peshawar after 9/11, would re-launch their flights soon. She said the provincial government was striving to overcome poverty, unemployment and price hike. She said the World Bank has shown willingness to provide loan to NWFP while their team is expected to reach Peshawar next week.
Posted by:Fred

#4  I don't think they have a legitimate claim of anything innovative, including grotesque ways of killing people.
Posted by: bigjim-ky   2008-09-03 10:19  

#3  In all likelihood the custom of burying alive preceded Islam in both Baloch and Pashtun culture; however, Islam gives such great weight to the perception of female purity and such venom to the the perceived violation of purity that it gives a veneer of sanction to the custom.
Posted by: mhw   2008-09-03 06:41  

#2  For a time I have read the traffic in the World Pashtun Foundation forums. Since it was a forum by Pashtuns for Pashtuns there was no Takiyah there. And when it was known about judicial rapes in Punjab, everyone be it nationalists, democrat or islamist was horrified about it. Perpetrators would have had an interesting death if they had fallen in Pashtun hands.
Posted by: JFM   2008-09-03 02:21  

#1  "the religion Islam also did not allow such inhuman acts"

Stoning is so much more entertaining for the crowds
Posted by: European Conservative   2008-09-03 00:10  

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