Pakistani soldier, 27, stoned to death after falling in love with tribeswoman

Lets get multiculturalism to work between sunnis and shiia before we start mandating it for the rest of us.

Daily Mail:

  • Punjab native Anwar Din posted in country’s northwestern Kurram region
  • He met Intizar Bibi, 19, while manning a checkpost near her home
  • The two had a romantic relationship, it is claimed, and tried to elope
  • Din killed on Monday and local tribe has ruled woman must be shot to death

By Daily Mail Reporter

PUBLISHED: 12:23 EST, 13 March 2013 | UPDATED: 10:33 EST, 14 March 2013

A Pakistani soldier was publicly stoned to death on the order of a tribal court for having an affair with a local woman, it has been claimed today.

Punjab native Anwar Din, 27, was posted in the country’s northwestern Kurram region last year to the Parachinar area where he met Intizar Bibi, 19, while manning a checkpost near her home.

The two embarked on a romantic relationship, tribal sources and government officials said, and he tried to elope with her when he was later posted to the disputed Kashmir region.

It was not immediately clear what evidence there was, if any, of a romance.

Punjab native Anwar Din, 27, was posted in the country's northwestern Kurram region last year to the Parachinar area where he met Intizar Bibi, 19, while manning a checkpost near her homePunjab native Anwar Din, 27, was posted in the country’s northwestern Kurram region last year to the Parachinar area where he met Intizar Bibi, 19, while manning a checkpost near her home

‘The girl left her home on Monday and met Anwar Din when villagers saw them,’ said Munir Hussain, the head of the local jirga, or tribal court, that sentenced Din to death.

‘We took the girl into custody and took the boy to the local graveyard where he was stoned to death and buried.’

Din was killed on Monday, he added. A government official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the jirga had ruled the woman must be shot to death. It was not immediately clear if this had already taken place.

 

The army was not immediately available for comment.

Such tribal justice is a stark reminder of the difficulty in establishing a credible civilian administration in Pakistan’s semi-autonomous region bordering Afghanistan, despite a series of military operations in the area and Western nations pouring in millions of dollars to help build infrastructure.

Kurram, the only part of Pakistan’s largely lawless border region that has a significant Shi’ite population, is wracked by sectarian violence between Sunni and Shi’ite tribes. Anti-Shi’ite ideology from the Taliban and al Qaeda has meant years of bloody fighting.

Bibi is Shi’ite while Din was Sunni, Hussain added.

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