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?
…….So what’s up with BBC reporting Syed Javed DCO Swat saying he personally spoke with the couple and both deny the incident. Who in the hell was the girl/boy in the video? And what about Muslim Khan Taliban spokesperson defending the lashing? Is the civilian government operative (Syed Javed DCO) sleeping on the driving seat? What an idiot? Or are we all over-reacting???
Thank you Adnan for pointing out that the spokesman of the Taliban was LYING on national TV.
I guess with all teh sins of these Talibans, lying is the least of them.
I appreciate your pointing this out to all of us.
yes yes
what their leader confessed on natinal tv should not be trusted…we saw and heard the interview..Mr.
but u want us to believe it never happened..at least yu people are seeing the public pressure of pakistanis…and yr talibanee friends are realizing its not afghanizatn where they can beat up women on roads……
you are pathetic…i will say no more to you….i dont have time for Jahils like u
@Imran: start living in Utopia then :-)
We should not believe in following news because people living in US and other part of Pakistan know much about SWAT then residents.
http://www.thenews.com.pk/updates.asp?id=73791
@adnan siddiquie
HELLO !!!!!!!!
no matter how hard you will try, mr adnan, we have no sympathies with your taliban and talibanee thought…OK?
call us hypoctite or whatver….we dont want your way of life and your oppressive shria…if by saying this we are “kafir” you still need to pack your shria ki patari and go leave for some where more conducive for your cave-age ideoligies….hmmm maybe afghanistan…i am sure you would love to raise your family in afghanistan, where any man walking on the road will have right to beat up your women, in the name of shria….wll serve you v well ….
also i ALSO object about calling talibans KAFIR, cause its insult to kafirs…. in all fairness…they should not be equated with kafirs…they are blood hounds, hungry for human flesh, who are ifesting human lives….rapist, they sexually abuse children in mudrassahs, and mass murderes whose suicide bombs kill indiscrminanlty….dont insult kafirs, but calling these talibans ( qoomay dajal, yajooj majooj) kafirs