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?
Mr. Adnan Siddiqi is right. We shoudl be condemning both the Taliban atrocities and the killings by these religious extremists and sicide bombers as well as the drones, etc. by USA. I condemn both.
But why is it, Mr. Adnan Siddiqi, that we have always seen you defending teh suicide bombers and Taliban and condemning only the drones. Can you please condemn all violence by the Taliban too. Just once say that these Taliban are murderers and criminals. Its not that difficult. If you want, you can also add whatever you want about USA.
If you can’t do that, woudl that not make YOU the hypocrite?
True or false, the one good thing this video has done is to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that MULLAHS LIE.
Fist Maulvi Muslim Khan – the official spokesman for Taliban – comes on TV and says the video is real and they will do this and even more again. Then teh same Mualvi Muslim Khan gives a statement that it is not a real video. So, either he was lying the first time or the second time. But he was certainly lying.
These Taliban kill, they mistreat girls, they lie. And they think they are going to make the rest of us Muslims.
The people who are most pathetic, of course, are the ones who are actually defending these lying murderers.
@ hilal
i wrote twice the answrs to these people who were saying its a fake video.but it never went through..
anyway as you said this is just an attempt to underplay the gravity of whole situation and this is either dne by those who are corrupt part of corrpt govt. or have soft corner for criminal talibanee mentality
well said my friend, e word u said is well said….god bless u
The moving ticker on the T.V report is the funniest of all. “Awaam Hairat Zada”. Why are the people surprised? Even a 4 year old monkey could have predicted this after Swat was handed to the ilk of Fazlullah and Sufi Muhammad.
What price are people willing to pay for peace?
Isn’t this what the Swati People wanted? May be hold a referendum of some kind.