4 women and a teenage girl were slain in the name of honour for ‘dancing’ with unrelated men in the UC Peech Bela, Palas tehsil, Kohistan.

1. Where Is The Honour In Honour
Killings?
- Ankur Sohanpal

2. Punished for dancing
• The slaying of 4 women and a teenage girl for ‘dancing’ with
unrelated men in the UC Peech Bela, Palas
tehsil, Kohistan district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan has
been much in the news recently.
• The four women were well clad in clothes with only their
faces visible, clapping and singing for the two brothers.
• Shooting the women in cold blood was monstrous, and did
not adhere to the views of any sort of religious legal
system, by way of principle.

3. The Jirga system
• The tribal elders of the Jirga system are men with the mental
equivalence of a level that would make the typical barbarians
of the distant past seem sophisticated.
• At least they weren’t misogynists.
• These are also men who realize that they are an endangered
species – with hardly anyone making the effort to conserve
their existence.
• People don’t mind killing their own daughters if they find
them ‘violating’ the rules.

4. Victims?
• The relationship between religion and women has been
ambiguous since the very beginning.
• Rules and laws regarding behavior and attire in public vary
according to countries, but nowhere in the world are laws as
stringent and punishments as ruthless as in the area in
Pakistan that leads up to Afghanistan.

5. • Women have been traditionally forced to forego access to
education, economic opportunities and personal freedom on
the basis of varying interpretations of religion.
• If children were to be subjugated instead of women, there is
no doubt in my mind about the various ways some of these
men would find to ensure terror and obeisance by
periodically killing a few now and then.
• Several studies have indicated that the all-round
development of women in society – nutritional, educational
and economic, is imperative for the economic and
intellectual growth of the community.

6. In the hands on youth!
• In a world not marked by country borders, the women
murdered are my innocent fellow citizens, and I wish their
unnecessary death could have been avoided.
• To work towards a future where incidents like these will be
more obviously outrageous to the public which stands
silently accepting them, sensitizing and educating the public
is the need of the hour.
• How we, as the youth of this world will walk down the path of
achieving this, is something we will have to collectively figure
out.

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Killings? On http://bit.ly/NI7jrr