Sindh One that took place on Friday night in Ghotki district of Tribal Jirga 24 As a result of years of fighting between the Savand and Sundarani communities Deaths The compensation was set at Rs 6 crore 36 lakh.
During the jirga held in Khanpur city, 13 murders of the Sawand community were proved once morest the Sundarani community, upon which the Jirga obliged the former to pay Rs. The fine for the murder of
Various leaders and police officers including PPP leader Khursheed Shah participated in the jirga held at the house of Pakistan People’s Party Member National Assembly Ali Gohar Khan Mehr.
An extortion of Rs 1 crore was imposed on the Sundarani community for the murder of Dr. Ajmal Savand, Assistant Professor of the Department of Computer Sciences at the Institute of Business Administration (IBA) Sukkur in Kandhkot district.
Dr. Ajmal Sawand received his PhD in e-Health Monitoring from the University of Jean-Mont-Saint-Etienne, France in 2015.
The Jirga directed the two communities not to fight any more in future and agreed to impose a fine of Rs 2 crore in case of initiative.
A few years ago, conflict broke out between the Sundarani and Savand communities following honor killings, in which more than two dozen people have lost their lives so far.
Jirga System of Sindh
The communities of different districts of Northern Sindh are themselves called tribes and each community has a chief who decides the affairs of his community and this system is called Jirga.
The powerful chiefs of the area make decisions not only in their community but also in the Jirgas of other communities. Jirga is a traditional and informal court, whose decision is considered binding on both parties.
In the viral video of the Khanpur Jirga on social media, it can be seen that a person standing next to MNA Ali Gohar Khan Meher issued a fatwa following the decision of the Jirga and gave the details of compensation for the dead and injured. .
Ban on polls
In April 2004 Sindh High Court The Sukkur bench had banned jirgas held by tribal chiefs and their decisions as illegal.
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In a detailed judgment, the court had said that cases would be registered once morest such Jirga convenors in future and the violators might be sentenced to six months to seven years in prison.
According to the court decision, in case of death as a result of the decisions of the Jirga, a case of murder will be registered once morest the Jirga participants.
This historic decision of the Sindh High Court came on the request of Sukkur’s senior lawyer, Advocate Shabir Shar.
Speaking to Independent Urdu, Advocate Shabir Sher said that in November 2003, a young couple Shazia Mangi and Ehsan Chachad filed an application once morest the Jirga following the consensual marriage of a young couple in the Dharki court of Ghotki district. The court pronounced this decision.
According to Advocate Shabbir Shar: ‘After their marriage, the head of the community held a jirga and declared the marriage null and void, imposing a fine of five lakh rupees on the boy’s father and handing over the girl to her father following divorce. .
The couple had filed an application in the court once morest the decision of the Jirga, on which the court declared the Jirga unconstitutional and illegal and directed the Sindh Police to take action once morest the participants in case of a Jirga in any place. A case should be filed on behalf of.
Parties bound to withdraw police case
According to Advocate Shabbir Shar, the parties are bound to accept the Jirga’s decisions and under the decision, both sides are bound to pay compensation for the bloodshed and withdraw the police cases once morest each other.
According to Advocate Shabbir Shar: “No court can dismiss a murder case without conducting all the proceedings and hearing the statements of the witnesses, but if the murder cases are withdrawn following a private Jirga, it is a murderous court and that is why the court has dismissed them.” Decisions were banned.’
SSP Ghotki and other police officers also participated in the rally in Khanpur.
According to Shabbir Shar: “There were also some accused in this Jirga who have a reward of 10, 10 lakh rupees from the government.”
When contacted, Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Ghotki Dr Samir Noor Channa said: ‘I have not attended any private jirga in an official or personal capacity. It is an allegation.’
When he was asked that according to the decision of the Sindh High Court, the police will file a state case, will the case of this Jirga also be filed? However, he refused to comment on it.
In this regard, Pakistan People’s Party Member of National Assembly Ali Gohar Khan Mehr, who heads the Jirga, was contacted several times on his mobile number and WhatsApp messages were also sent to him, but no response was received.
When the Chief Minister House was contacted to know the stand of the Sindh government, Abdul Rasheed Chana, the spokesperson of the Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah, told Independent Urdu: ‘We have received information regarding this Jirga. Action will be taken according to law following investigation.
Why are Jirgas being held despite the ban?
Despite the ban on Jirgas by the Sindh High Court, Jirgas have been going on in the province for many years.
Mumtaz Bukhari, a journalist reporting on jirgas in northern Sindh, told Independent Urdu that following the delay in justice and bloody conflicts between different communities, the parties want an end to fighting and that is why jirgas are being held despite the ban.
According to Mumtaz Bukhari: ‘Also, very powerful tribal chiefs are involved in these jirgas, who organize jirgas for their own interests. These Jirgas are used by these Sardars for their elections.
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2024-07-06 09:24:11
