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Kohistan video scandal: K-P govt confirms girls' murdered
January 02, 2019
ISLAMABAD, Jan 02 (INP): The Supreme Court (SC) was informed by the additional advocate general of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) that the provincial police had confirmed the ‘honour’ killing of five girls involved in the Kohistan video scandal.
A three-member bench headed by Chief Justice Saqib Nisar resumed hearing of the suo motu case pertaining to the six-year-old Kohistan video scandal that led to the murder of five women on the directions of a jirga. The suspects, however, kept denying the killing and insisted that the women were alive.
[timed-content-server show="01/03/2019 01:00 Asia/Karachi"]During the hearing, the additional advocate general said police had added names of nine accused in the challan. Justice Nisar sought details of an SC-constituted fact-finding mission sent to the area on June 4, 2012, to verify if the women were alive. The court was further informed by the counsel that the women were misidentified by the commission. “They had presented different women in front of the committee.” When the chief justice recalled Farzana Bari’s stance, the K-P lawyer admitted that she had opposed the committee’s report. “She was right. The evidence proves the girls were murdered.” The bench gave the provincial government a 10-day deadline to submit a challan against the accused. Justice Nisar also remarked that the victims’ families can file an appeal to transfer the case to an anti-terrorism court. “However, if they feel any injustice, they can file a human rights petition in the supreme court,” he added. INP/AK[/timed-content-server]Related Articles
