CM KP takes notice of girl’s killing incident in Kohistan
PEHAWAR: Khyber Pakthunkhwa Caretaker Chief Minister, Justice (Retd) Arshad Hussain Shah, took strict notice of killing of a girl allegedly on order of a local jirga in Kohistan and directed the authorities concerned for immediate inquiry of the incident.
He contacted Additional Chief Secretary Home Department and directed for taking all necessary measures for conducting of an immediate inquiry of the incident and submission of report at the earliest.
The chief minister also directed KP Inspector General of Police for immediate arrest of all the culprits involved in the gory incident. He said that supremacy of law and order would be ensured at all cost. He directed protection of the companion of the victim girl.
According to media reports, a young girl has been allegedly murdered and another rescued by police in a case involving a viral video in Kolai-Palas district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
The girl was allegedly killed on Sunday in the Barsharyal village of Palas by her own family on the orders of a local jirga. The video, which went viral on social media around four days ago, also featured boys who have since gone into hiding.
The body of the girl was shifted to a nearby health facility for doctors to carry out medico-legal formalities and was later handed over to the family.
Police told local journalists that one of the two girls, whose video went viral, had been killed, while the other was rescued and produced before a local magistrate to record a statement. The girl said she felt no threat to her life by her family and wanted to go with them instead of being shifted to Dar-ul-Aman.
Station House Officer (SHO) Palas police station lodged a first information report of the murder by himself under sections 302/311 and 109 of the Pakistan Penal Code. Police said those involved in the brutal killing would be brought to justice.
The incident comes more than 10 years after a similar incident when five women were murdered on a jirga decree after their video clapping to a man dancing at a family event went viral in 2011.
Three brothers of the man in the video were killed later, while the case was highlighted by their other brother Afzal Kohistani in 2012, who was also shot dead in March 2019 in Abbottabad.
The case garnered international attention and was taken to the Supreme Court in 2013 after which then chief justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry took suo motu notice and sentenced those involved to life imprisonment.