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Pakistani lawmaker defends honor killings
Parliamentarian defends killing of five women buried alive, says
'these are centuries old traditions'.
A Pakistani lawmaker defended a decision by southwestern
tribesmen to bury five women alive because they wanted to choose
their own husbands, telling stunned members of Parliament this week
to spare him their outrage.
"These are centuries-old traditions and I will continue to
defend them," Israr Ullah Zehri, who represents Baluchistan
province, said Saturday. "Only those who indulge in immoral acts
should be afraid." The women, three of whom were teenagers, were
first shot and then thrown into a ditch.
They were still breathing as their bodies were covered with
rocks and mud, according media reports and human rights activists,
who said their only "crime" was that they wished to marry men of
their own choosing Zehri told a packed and flabbergasted parliament
on Friday that Baluch tribal traditions helped stop obscenity and
then asked fellow lawmakers not to make a big fuss about it.
Many stood up in protest, saying the executions were "barbaric"
and demanding that discussions continue Monday. But a handful said
it was an internal matter of the deeply conservative province.
"I was shocked," said lawmaker Nilofar Bakhtiar, who pushed for
legislation calling for perpetrators of so-called honor killings to
be punished when she served as minister of women's affairs under
the last government. "I feel that we've gone back to the starting
point again," she said. "It's really sad for me."