விபச்சாரத்துக்காக பாகிஸ்தானில் 4 பேர் சுட்டுக்கொலை

பாகிஸ்தானில் விபச்சாரம் செய்ததற்காக 4 பேர் சுட்டுக்கொல்லப்பட்டார்கள்.
வட மேற்கு பாகிஸ்தானில் தாலிபான் ஆதரவாளர்கள் நிறைய இருப்பதால் இப்படிப்பட்ட விஷயங்கள் நடப்பதாக செய்தி கூறுகின்றது.

Four executed in Pakistani tribal region for alleged illicit relations
The Associated PressPublished: June 4, 2007

PESHAWAR, Pakistan: Tribesmen shot four people to death in a public execution in northwestern Pakistan Monday, after a council of elders found them guilty of adultery, an official said.

Residents seized the three men and a woman at a house in Alam Gudar, a villager in the Khyber tribal region near the Afghan border on Monday morning, said Purdil Khan, a local government official.

The four confessed under questioning by a hastily convened jirga, or council, of tribal elders, who sentenced them to death, Khan said.

Tribesmen shot them in the street in front of a large crowd of residents, Khan said.

Haji Jan Gul, a local elder, confirmed that the four were executed "according to tribal tradition."

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Executions for adultery are regularly reported from remote, conservative areas of Pakistan, drawing criticism from domestic and international rights groups.

Some occur in the semiautonomous tribal belt, where the federal government has limited jurisdiction and a harsh tribal justice prevails.

However, there have also been cases further east, despite President Gen. Pervez Musharraf's calls for the practice to stop.