Adil Najam
This is a VERY DISTURBING video. Please view at your own discretion.
It is important, however, that we speak about and shout out about this video.
It shows a 17-year old girl being flogged by a Taliban leader of some sort in a perverted form of justice. Reportedly the incident happened in Kalakalay, Swat around 3 months ago (before the supposed peace deal with the government). The girl is being ‘punished’ for going somewhere without a male relative. Supposedly, the male companion was also flogged.
This video is also be discussed vigorously at Pakistaniat’s new Facebook page. Some of that disussion does not carry over here, although we hope it ultimately will.
In more recent developments, supposedly Sufi Mohammad in Swat has condemned the act and said this was not Baitullah’s Taliban. More importantly, the recent reinstated Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry has taken su moto notice of this incident. According to The News
Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry Friday took a suo motu notice of the media footage in which a 17 year old girl is being whipped out in the broad daylight in Swat. Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhdy ordered the matter to be presented before a larger bench on April 6. He also summoned Secretary Interior, IG and Chief Secretary on April 6. He ordered formation of 8-member larger bench to be headed by himself.
This is a story that all Pakistanis and all Muslims must speak about and speak against. There are those who will try to make this a story about what Pakistan or Islam is. Such bigoted approaches are to be resisted. This is not a story about what Pakistan is. This is clearly not about what Islam is. This is a story about what the enemies of Islam and enemies of Pakistan are doing. This is a story about what Pakistan must not allowed to become. The bad news is obvious in the video itself. The bad news is about the criminality being conducted in the name of religion. The good news is that the media, the judiciary and ordinary Pakistanis ARE speaking up and speaking out. We must do more so. For if we do not speak out against this criminality, who will?
Taha says:
“I read somewhere in a English scholar book that Islam is the true religion but their believers are the worst.”
…and that makes it true? See, this is exactly what I am talking about – don’t you people have any sense of patriotism?
Do you, Taha, not know about the attrocities that were committed by Christians when they overran both American continents? Do you not know what they did in Australia? Do you not know what happened in Spain, hence the term “Spanish inquisition”? Do you not know what is happening today in Iraq and in Afghanistan?
Pakistan is the place you make it. You can either accept Islam (based upon its teachings using the Quran and the Hadeeths) and retain that as the foundation to build your successes upon or you can ignore it and march towards your failure.
Gully gully meh shor he, Pakistan bara hua he rishwat-cor aur chor se.
Is there any word at all from the so called religious leaders in Pakistan. What do JUI and JI and Junaid jamshed and others say. Will they at least condemn this>??????????
I think Nida Hafeez, the woman asking the questions in the second video does a superb job. Keeping her cool but not letting go of teh question. The result is that the Taliban spokesman comes out looking like the fool he is.
Can someone please explain what it means that the chief justice will take suo moto action? what does that mean.
Has anyone noticed that all our political bigwigs are quiet…. Zardari: no comment. Nawaz Sharif: No comment. Gen. Kiani: No comment. Are all of them scared of the Taliban?