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Pakistani rapist's wife offered to victim's father for punishment

May 29, 2007, 7:39 GMT

Islamabad - A tribal council in central Pakistan has ordered the surrender of the wife of a rapist to the child victim's father for retribution, media reports said Tuesday.

The council, called a punchayat, was convened in a village near the Punjab Province city of Multan, located 380 kilometres south of Islamabad, after police refused to register a case against a local man for assaulting the minor.

Brothers of the accused man had initially offered one of their four daughters in compensation for the crime, the newspaper Daily Nation said.

But the council decreed that the father of the victim could wreak revenge on the man's wife, who upon hearing the verdict moved to her parents' home for protection.

Tribal law still applies in many rural areas of Pakistan and it is not uncommon for women and children to be 'given' to aggrieved families during the settlement of feuds.

© 2007 dpa - Deutsche Presse-Agentur


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tonny from belgiumMay 29th, 2007 - 07:44:52

Seems tribal law in Pakistan punishes disregard women's right beyond even simple logic.Barbarious customs.

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The Stupid Legacy of non Muslim linger onMay 29th, 2007 - 09:40:28

This is one of those legacies that the country has been fighting. It is not only unIslamic, rather carries a maximum punishment of death for the culprits..the ones who made that decision. Genuine Jirgas do not ever punish any person like that.

LIKE TORAH, TOOTH FOR TOOTH... BUT NOT ANOTHER INNOCENT PERSON'S TOOTH.

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BillMay 29th, 2007 - 20:32:46

tribal law is from the dark ages....not islamic.

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ahsanMay 31st, 2007 - 09:36:08

Many people claim such barbarism is not Islamic but rather cultural or tribal. However, one repeatedly hears of such cruel incidents occurring regularly across the Muslim world. I am afraid that such precedents as stoning or whipping, etc in Islamic law has allowed incidents such as this to occur in the name of Islam and is perpetrated by people who call themselves devout Muslims.

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anisaNov 10th, 2008 - 09:53:28

pakistan is a country that can't solve anything.....
crimes are allways happening but no one giving the dam
i feel sorry for those who live there

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anonymousMar 11th, 2009 - 09:59:49

there is noyhing new in this kind of incident islam has always treted womens as sex slaves wheather it be prophet or his army people born in islam becoz of there sins in their previous birth

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