Hall of Shame

[Da Bannu Mazdigar]

Sad and Concerning Indeed

MINOR HINDU GIRL RAPED AND KILLED IN PAKISTANI PUNJAB

A nine-year-old Hindu girl was raped and killed in Punjab province of Pakistan, officials said on Sunday.

Basti Kata, a resident of Mauza Ghunia in Rahim Yar Khan district, located 400 km from provincial capital Lahore, said his daughter went missing while playing outside his home on Thursday. Kata informed police and registered a missing person’s report. The girl’s parents and other relatives made frantic efforts to find her but to no avail.

On Saturday, some of Kata’s relatives found the girl’s body in an open field. Police took the body to a state-run hospital in Khanpur, where the doctor on duty refused to perform an autopsy. The aggrieved family staged a protest outside the hospital. Following the intervention of the local administration, the doctor conducted an autopsy that confirmed rape. “It appears the girl died while being raped,” the doctor said. Police have registered a case against unidentified persons. Hindus are the largest minority in Pakistan but make up only about two per cent of the population of 180 million.

Most Hindus live in southern Sindh province, where there have been several instances of alleged abduction and forced conversion of women from the minority community. In Balochistan, which has a sizeable Hindu population, the community has been targeted by militants and criminal gangs in recent years.

http://www.dailypioneer.com/world/minor-hindu-girl-raped-and-killed-in-pakistani-punjab.html

[Karachi]

Very Very Shameful. Many of these sort of crimes have nothing to do with religion though, rather caste/social/feudal system in Interior Pakistan and even India. Most hindus that live in Pakistan are of low caste and they are treated very horribly.

[$hiva]

what i find absolutely disgusting is using tragic news, other people's catastrophic tragedies in order to troll the forums.

Da Bannu Mazdigar i hope one day you're raped or someone closed to you are raped so then you will know how those rape victims felt

[Da Bannu Mazdigar]

what i find absolutely disgusting is using tragic news, other people's catastrophic tragedies in order to troll the forums.

Da Bannu Mazdigar i hope one day you're raped or someone closed to you are raped so then you will know how those rape victims felt

OMG,I am not supporting the rape But rather extremely sad about the incident.You have no idea how much i have respect and love for the minorities of Pakistan.

I do have love and softheart for Muslims around the world But No muslim is superior or close to me than a Pakistani hindu/christian/jew/atheist.they are the one suffering with us not the muslim from other countries.

Having soft heart for muslim around the world is one thing but they getting equal to a pakistani hindu for me is something not possible

I Run such threads in many Forum.Google about the "Age of Madness" in defence.pk or "Pakistan's Hall of Shame" in Indian defence forum.

[HalloIsBack]

OMG,I am not supporting the rape But rather extremely sad about the incident.You have no idea how much i have respect and love for the minorities of Pakistan.

I do have love and softheart for Muslims around the world But No muslim is superior or close to me than a Pakistani hindu/christian/jew/atheist.they are the one suffering with us not the muslim from other countries.

Having soft heart for muslim around the world is one thing but they getting equal to a pakistani hindu for me is something not possible

I Run such threads in many Forum.Google about the "Age of Madness" in defence.pk or "Pakistan's Hall of Shame" in Indian defence forum.

don't pay attention on him. he has got several accs on pf. he attack step by step each user. now it's your turn i guess.

[afghan]

what i find absolutely disgusting is using tragic news, other people's catastrophic tragedies in order to troll the forums.

Da Bannu Mazdigar i hope one day you're raped or someone closed to you are raped so then you will know how those rape victims felt

He feels proud of his masters.he feels strong that his masters can harass the powerless and poor.

[Da Bannu Mazdigar]

Thank God She escaped this bloody cultural custom.

It is so sad to see 12 cases were reported to in 2012 alone and only in swat.We Know this happen in Pakistan from Chitral upto Sindh below.

Govt should annouce a law that anyone given in Kari/Swara,Her parents especially the father should be hanged to death.And the Girl to be freed from marriage if she wills to

A young Pakistani girl Saneeda, who escaped a forced marriage under a local custom of Swara, plays a local game in the Madyan valley of Swat.


Madyan, Pakistan: One sunny afternoon as she skipped home from school, Saneeda was accosted by her estranged father, who wanted to marry her to a man she'd never met to settle a debt of "honour". She was five years old.

A few months earlier, Saneeda's father Ali Ahmed had eloped with a girl from another valley. To avoid violent revenge from her family, he promised to give them his daughter and niece Sapna in marriage.

Offering young girls as brides in compensation to settle disputes persists in many areas of deeply conservative Pakistan.

In Saneeda's home district of Swat, in the country's northwest, the practice is known as "swara".

Government data show that it is on the rise in Swat, four years after an army operation ended the Taliban's brutal two-year rule in the scenic valley once known as the "Switzerland of Pakistan".

Nine cases were registered in the area in 2013, up from just one in 2012. Rights groups say the true number is much higher.
'Children taunt me'

"My father stopped me in the street and told me that he has given me in swara and soon will hand me over to a man who will be my husband," Saneeda, wearing a golden shawl with red and purple embroidery, told AFP, her cheeks reddening in embarrassment.

Her mother dismissed it at first, but the arrangement had been ordered by a jirga, a traditional tribal gathering, and the gravity of the situation soon became clear.

"We initially thought they can't take this girl away but then they increased pressure with every passing day to give her in swara," Fazal Ahad, Saneeda's maternal uncle, told AFP.

Eventually Saneeda's family got a court order protecting her. Police arrested her father and the jirga members who had decided to give her in swara.

A
lucky escape, but Saneeda, now aged seven, still faces discrimination and mockery.

"Whenever I go to school, children taunt me and tell me that I have been given in swara and will be married to a man," she said.

Saneeda was unsual in that her family challenged the jirga's ruling. In Pakistan's patriarchal society, where family reputation is paramount, airing the "dirty laundry" in public in this way is very rare.

"There are many other cases of swara, but people in our area don't go to police and court and don't highlight such cases. We don't take matters of our women to the court -- the victimised girls have to bear it all," said Ahad.

The authorities do not keep detailed data on swara, but Samar Minallah, an activist who made an acclaimed documentary on the practice, said she had identified at least 132 cases around Pakistan in 2012.

The other girl given by Saneeda's father, 16-year-old Sapna, had to abide by the jirga ruling and settled with the husband they chose for her.

The custom and the code of silence that surrounds it is so strictly followed that AFP was unable to reach her to speak about her experience.
Code of silence

Ahad said the nine Swara cases reported in Swat are just the tip of the iceberg, but victims were becoming increasingly willing to speak out.

"People are slowly getting aware through media that this custom is an evil, so some of them have started reporting," he said.

Forced marriage under swara is against the law, but police say that even when a complaint is brought there is great reluctance among witnesses to give statements.

"In the cases of swara, people don't provide evidence against each other, because they are from the same village and community," Naveed Khan, a senior police official told AFP in Mingora, the district headquarter of Swat.

"In the single swara marriage case in 2012, all 12 accused were set free because there was lack of evidence against them. Nobody speaks up in such cases."

Officers arrested 65 suspects in the nine swara cases in 2013, including Saneeda's father, Khan said, but their fate rests with the courts.

Women's rights groups say the government needs to do more to crack down on swara.

"There are more than 15 cases of Swara, which have been highlighted," Tabassum Adnan Safi, the chair of a local women's campaign group, told AFP.

"We are working to make women aware of the evilness of this custom. Besides these awareness campaigns, we also protest against Swara and raise voice for the protection.

"But getting evidence in such cases is no doubt a big challenge because nobody talks about it."

Minallah says that nothing will change until the police and prosecutors are prepared to challenge the authority of local elders -- a difficult task in areas where such traditional power structures are deeply entrenched.

"An awareness has been created against swara, that is why there are more reported cases, but the authorities need to take strict action against jirgas and stop them violating the law," she said.

And there are those, even in the legal community, who defend the practice staunchly.

"It is helpful in removing deadly enmities among scores of tribes, saves dozens of lives and brings peace among families," Syed Kareem Shalman, a practising lawyer in Mingora, told AFP.

"If a family, which gets a bride in Swara mistreats her, faces revenge from the family who give their daughter to resolve the dispute."

http://www.ndtv.com/article/world/pakistan-s-child-brides-married-off-for-honour-482350?ndtv_rhs

[Da Bannu Mazdigar]

Awaiting justice: Vani-rape survivor being pressured to withdraw her complaint

The woman declared vani by a panchayat and gang-raped in Muhammadwala, Chiniot, is now being pressured to retract her statement, Chaudhry Umar Daraz Aasi, an activist representing the victim, told the media on Thursday.

He said the police claim that they have arrested the men accused of the gang-rape was false. The men police have taken into custody are influential persons in the area and are being extended protocol by the police, said Aasi.

“The police are pressuring her to withdraw her statement. They are threatening her with dire consequences, including implicating her in false cases, if she refuses,” he said.
Chiniot District Police Officer Rae Munir Ahmad Zia told The Express Tribune that he was personally monitoring the case. He said it would be decided on merit. He said, “The police have not extended protocol to any of those taken into custody. Swabs of samples from those accused and the woman have been sent for forensic tests. The lab report will determine whether the woman was raped or not.”

If proven guilty, the men will be taken to task without discrimination, the DPO said.
The woman, a resident of Mawar Bhattian, was reportedly declared vani in a panchayat ruling against her brother who had married a woman on February 27 without her family’s approval.

Members of the panchayat Gul Sher, Amanullah, Sikandar, Zafar, Anwar and Nasir, among others, had ordered the victim to be married to a brother of the woman her brother had married. She said they had forcibly obtained the her impression on a nikahnama.
Aasi said after the woman refused to accept the panchayat’s ruling several panchayat members forced their way into her father’s house and took her away at gunpoint on March 1. “They [panchayat members] said her refusal was an insult to them and that they would teach her a lesson,” Aasi said.

He said the woman was ‘divorced’ and then handed to her ‘husband’s’ uncle on March 15, who took her to his haveli where he and three others raped her, he said. She was later tied to a tree and her family told that she would be returned after the love-marriage woman was returned.

“Several people in the area went to the haveli and begged him to release her. He let her go after her relatives apologised profusely,” Aasi said.

Published in The Express Tribune, March 22nd, 2014.

http://tribune.com.pk/story/685617/awaiting-justice-vani-rape-survivor-being-pressured-to-withdraw-her-complaint/

[jankhan]

LOL, the BAnO mazigar says ''should be hanged''
Extremists thoughts this guy has in his skull.

[Da Bannu Mazdigar]

http://tribune.com.pk/story/709217/karo-kari-three-women-killed-in-rajanpur/

RAJANPUR: Police have confirmed that three women have been killed in Kotla Androoon in Rajanpur on suspicions of karo-kari, Express News reported on Friday.

Honour killing, locally known as karo-kari, is an act of murder due to the belief that the victim has brought dishonour upon the family.
Previous incidents

In a previous incident related to karo kari, a man and woman in Jacobabad were shot at by the latter’s father-in-law. They both died immediately.

The perpetrator, Muhammad Hayat Brohi, shot Gul Bano after seeing her talking to a man named Sikander Ali Dasti.

Brohi surrendered to the police after the incident.

[Da Bannu Mazdigar]

LAHORE: A father and brothers of an unfortunate girl, who had married by choice, brutally murdered her outside the Lahore High Court (LHC) premises and escaped from the scene on Tuesday here, Geo News reported.

Police said that Farzana resident of Faisalabad had married by choice Iqbal of Jaranawala few months ago and she along with her husband was on way to the court for recording her statement, where her father and brothers in an ambush caught hold of her outside the LHC premises and started hitting her with stones until she died on the spot and the accused successfully escaped from the scene.

Police on information reaching the spot sent the body for autopsy and registered a case on complaint of the murdered girl’s husband Iqbal.

http://www.geo.tv/article-148965-Girl-stoned-to-death-outside-LHC-premises-over-honour

[Da Bannu Mazdigar]

Swara is still very much common.

http://tribune.com.pk/story/717053/p...iven-in-swara/

SHANGLA: A jirga forced two young girls into marriage under the custom of swara in Chakesar, Shangla after which police arrested 19 accused and filed a case against 28 people on Monday.

According to Chakesar police official Anwar Muhammad, on May 30 Bakht Ali, a resident of Taloon, and Shahnaz Bibi, daughter of Ghulam Haider, ran away together. After they allegedly eloped, a grand jirga comprising 28 people, including local religious clerics, decided to give Bakht’s two nieces in swara to Haider’s family.

On Monday, the jirga handed over six-year-old Noor Jehan and her five-year-old sister Sadia, daughters of Bakht’s brother Muhammad Ali, to Haider’s family, added the official. The two minor girls were made to enter into a nikkah with Tariq Ali, 9, and Zakirullah, 11.
After the nikkah ceremony, heavy contingents of police rushed to the spot and arrested 19, including the cleric. Nine others were able to escape from the scene, said Muhammad.

He said both girls were recovered and a case has been filed against 28 people. The police are raiding various areas to arrest the remaining culprits.

[Da Bannu Mazdigar]

Killing with impunity: Four women, one man killed for ‘honour’

Five people were murdered in so-called honour killings and four were murdered over property on Saturday.

In Khanewal, a man killed his brother and sister-in-law, accusing the latter of having an extramarital affair.

Police said Amir shot Zubaida* and his brother when he tried to save her. Two cousins who were present at the time were also injured.
They were taken to Khanewal DHQ Hospital where doctors later said their condition was stable.

The police have arrested Amir in a raid.
In Multan, 28-year-old Omar Khalid shot his 23-year-old sister for honour. She died on the way to Nishtar Medical Hospital. Khalid is still at large.

In Rajanpur, a 31-year-old woman was shot and killed by her father.

Police said he also shot and injured his younger daughter and fled. He was later arrested and confessed to the shootings. In Cheechawatni, a man cut his wife’s throat after he accused her of having an affair. Ghaziabad police have arrested him and he confessed.

He told the police in a statement that he had a right to kill his wife because she had embarrassed him. Separately, in Cheechawatni, a man killed his older brother over a bag of fertiliser. Police said on Friday Zubair had bought a fertiliser bag from his younger brother Talha. On Saturday, Zubair refused to pay Talha for the bag. They said Talha shot him in retaliation. Kasowaal police arrested him.

In another incident, two cousins were killed over a property dispute that has gone on for 28 years. Police said some men shot four cousins while they were working in the fields. They said one of them died on the spot while another died at the hospital. They said the other two were in a critical condition.

In Sahiwal, a man was killed over a property dispute and two others were injured. Police said 32-year-old Saqib was shot thrice and died on the way to the hospital. Police said their family told them he had an inheritance dispute with some cousins.

*NAMES HAVE BEEN CHANGED TO PROTECT IDENTITIES
Published in The Express Tribune, June 15th, 2014.

http://tribune.com.pk/story/722032/killing-with-impunity-four-women-one-man-killed-for-honour/

[Da Bannu Mazdigar]

Old,But worth Posting

Hell under PPP everyone in Pakistan was under delusions

http://tribune.com.pk/story/416542/the-water-car-fraud/

Agha Waqar Ahmad deserves a medal from the people of Pakistan for his great service to the nation. In a few short days, he has exposed just how far Pakistan has fallen into the pit of ignorance and self-delusion. No practical joker could have demonstrated more dramatically the true nature of our country’s political leaders, popular TV anchors and famed scientists.


At first, it sounded like a joke: a self-styled engineer, trained in Khairpur’s polytechnic institute, claims to have invented a ‘water kit’ enabling any car to run on water alone. It didn’t matter that the rest of world couldn’t extract energy from water; he had done it.

He promised a new Pakistan with limitless energy, no need for petrol or gas, and no more loadshedding. For an energy starved nation, it is a vision of paradise.

Agha Waqar Ahmad is now a national celebrity thanks to Religious Affairs Minister Khursheed Shah.

Federal ministers Mir Hazar Khan Bijarani and Qamar Zaman Kaira have added their commendations. President Asif Ali Zardari has expressed his delight. The cabinet has met three times to discuss the water vehicle, and a fourth meeting is scheduled. Reports suggest millions may be spent on the ‘water fuel kit project’.

The media has rushed in to celebrate the new national hero. For TV anchor Talat Husain, thanks to Agha Waqar Ahmad’s invention, Pakistan’s image can go from a country ravaged by terrorism to one of boundless possibilities. Anchor Hamid Mir and Senator Parvaiz Rasheed drove around Islamabad sitting next to the inventor, wondering how to protect the man’s life from Western oil companies. Anchor Arshad Sharif was euphoric about the $14 billion Pakistan would save on oil imports.


Pakistan’s most celebrated scientists were not far behind. Asked by Anchor Sharif whether a car could run only on water, nuclear hero Dr Samar Mubarakmand replied without hesitation: “jee haan, bilkul ho sakta hai” (yes, absolutely possible). For his part, Hamid Mir asked Dr AQ Khan if there was any chance of this being a fraud. The response was clear: “Main nay apnay level per investigate kiya hai aur koi fraud waraud nahi kiya hai” (I have investigated the matter and there is no fraud involved).


The head of the Pakistan Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, Dr Shaukat Parvaiz, went further: “hum nay bhi iss pay kam karaya tha” (we had some work done on this too).

So, what is the problem? It’s that the laws of physics, in particular a fundamental scientific principle known as the Second Law of Thermodynamics, impose inviolable constraints. Every machine constructed anywhere uses the Second Law.

This is something that I learned in my first year as a student at MIT and have taught for 40 years. No serious scientist would dream of challenging the Second Law. Agha Waqar Ahmad’s ‘water kit’, if one believes science to be right, simply cannot work. What the inventor, the ministers, the anchors and scientists claim on TV is wrong.
To his credit, the only person on TV that seemed to know this elementary principle was Dr Attaur Rahman, a chemist and a former HEC chairman. I have not agreed with all his actions and views in the past, but he alone rejected the claims about the new machine. Sadly, he was not able to hold back the tide of a nation desperate for any answer to its energy woes.

The water fraud will be exposed soon enough and, like a bad posterior smell, will go away. A simple experiment will make this happen faster. Here’s how: take an emergency electricity generator, of which there are thousands in Islamabad. Its engine is similar to that in a car. Remove the fuel tank and make sure the ‘water kit’ contains only water.

Then ask the inventor to connect it up and run the generator. Let there be enough sharp-eyed witnesses of intelligence and integrity.

But this episode raises bigger questions. Scientific frauds exist in other countries, but what explains their spectacular success in Pakistan? Answer: our leaders are lost in the dark, fumbling desperately for a miracle; our media is chasing spectacle, not truth; and our great scientists care more about being important than about evidence. It is easy for them all to get away with this. As a nation, we have proven unwilling to do the hard work needed to learn to reason, to be sceptical, to demand proof, to understand even basic science. It is easier to believe the world is run by magic and conspiracies, to wish and wait for Aladin’s magic lamp. We live in the age of jahilliya.
Published in The Express Tribune, August 3rd, 2012.

[Da Bannu Mazdigar]

Extremely sad

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=959801380714206&set=vb.283201628374188&type=2&theater