KARACHI, June 12: Five girls whose parents were ordered by a recent jirga in
Haji Kamal Magsi village near Thul to hand them over in ‘marriage’ to a rival
family to settle a long-drawn feud over a murder must have heaved a sigh of
relief on Monday when the jirga verdict was declared unlawful.
The
decision to annul the verdict was taken at a meeting presided over by Sindh
Chief Minister Dr Arbab Ghulam Rahim, who took the opportunity to criticise PPP
legislator Mir Hazar Khan Bijarani for allegedly taking part in the jirga and
being a party to the controversial decision.
The MNA from Jacobabad
distanced himself from the jirga decision on Sunday when he told a press
conference that he had taken part in a reconciliation meeting, and not a jirga,
to help two groups of the Banglani clan to which he belonged, to bury the
hatchet. Mr Bijarani earned the criticism of the Sindh chief minister for not
attending the Monday meeting to which he had been called.
Dr Rahim asked
the Kashmore district’s top police officer to find out why the jirga was allowed
to be held. He said an FIR should be registered in the murder case.—Agencies
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