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?
@ sami
are you an expert on victim’s behavior, or a psychologist or smthing….u are pathetic thats all i can say
i hope u get beaten in front of crowd and i wld like to see if after that humiliation, how quickly u wold want to leave the crowd and run away and hide somewhere to lick yr wound
pathetic are people like u
@Sami
The language and clothing was Swati in this video and the Taliban spokesman took responsibility.
The girl could walk after the spanking because it was a spanking, not a bone-breaking.
I fear that this story is already forgotten. How cruel we all are. The news channels have forgotten it and the Taliban supporters have used propaganda to totally twist the facts through lies. How sad.
this is a a fake video…sound was dubbed…language that they are using is not used in swat…its all political drama..
how can a girl walk so easily after so many spanks
@abuali
yr article is same old story….i dont understand how cam u equate dr afiya with flogging
wht ppl like u who are promoting conspiracy theor need to understand is the diffe between the two…dr afiya was a case which involves usa and is political issue…
this flogging is done in the name of religion by pakistanis on our on earth….
so this is the reason there is so much hue and cry abt it…..well for so many different and obvious reasons we cant stop usa ….but this does not mean we start letting people take law in their own hands in our own country in the name of religion…
but i am sure u still dont see the difference….cause u dont beleive in first cleaning up the dirt in ones own house….
i am not impressed by the article u posted…and if u followed the thread of discussion here on this page…which is around 30 pages long u will understand why lot of people like me dont want to buy yr argument….usa is not our enemy…corrupt ppl in our society are