ISLAMABAD,April 23: Head of a karo-kari affected family has asked the government to take steps for ending this tyrannical custom and demanded justice for its victims.
Noor Muhammad Buzdar said this while speaking at a news briefing, here on Monday.
He said, “Buland Ali Buzdar developed personal enmity on the issue of water rotation. He owns two acres (of) land and earns his living by cultivating this tract of land,” he added.
Ghaffar Buzdar accused Buland Ali Buzdar of having illicit relations with his wife, Majida Bibi, and a jirga was held to dispense justice in this connection.
Waderas (landlords) Sadiq Buzdar and Ali Muhammad Buzdar and Sanjar Buzdar, through a self-styled decision, had ordered Buland Ali to give his two daughters in marriage to Allah Wasaya, in addition pay a fine of Rs200,000, in cash. In case of non-compliance of the verdict, karo Buland Ali would be executed.
Noor Muhammad Buzdar has appealed to the Acting Chief Justice, Rana Bhagwandas, to take suo motu action and issue orders for lodging FIR against those who have declared Buland Ali Buzdar a karo. He has pleaded that the accused be arrested and the lives of his minor daughters be safeguarded.
Majida Bibi, who had been accused of the immoral act and declared a kari, testified on the Holy Quran before the jirga, saying that she had been falsely implicated in a fabricated story. Buland Ali said, also on oath, that the charge levelled against him was false. But both these testimonies were rejected by the jirga.
The landlord expelled Buland Ali from the village, due to non- payment of penalty and Allah Wasaya got hold of two acres of his land.
Landlord Ali Murad Buzdar has also lodged a false FIR, at the Khanpur Mehr police station, against Buland Ali Buzdar and along with the other landlords, also threatened of killing him if he did not offer his daughters in marriage, in accordance with the verdict of the jirga.
Noor Muhammad Buzdar said 115 men, 140 women, 14 minor girls and two boys had been declared karo and kari during the first three months of the current year.
Source: Dawn
Date:4/24/2007
