SELLING YOUR CHILD TO BEAT THE DEATH PENALTY!!!
VANI is a custom where, in order to settle a dispute, a man can promise a young female relative to be married to a man he has committed an offense against. The most notorious case of vani happened in 2004, where a three year old girl was promised in marriage to a sixty year old man. Public outrage over this case led to the change in the law, which also meant honor killings would, for the first time, become an offense in Pakistan's bizarre penal code.
One case of vani involved girls not even born being promised as future brides to male members of one family, after a man was killed. Vani happens primarily in rural areas, where village courts, or jirgas decide the outcome over personal disputes, particularly over issues of family law. President Musharraf has ENCOURAGED the settling of family disputes by jirgas, outside of federal jurisdiction.
Pakistan's Daily Times reports that a woman who is now 24 is rebelling against a decision agreed upon when she was only one year old, when she was promised as a "bride".
Naheed Akhtar has filed a police petition against the man scheduled to be her husband, and also against her own father, for "selling" her rights in order to gain a lesser penalty for his own crimes.
The case derives from a crime committed before she was born.
In 1960, her father, Muhammad Zaman, together with his brother Sahalat, killed a man over a land dispute, in their home village of Pacca Ghanjera in Mianwali.
Muhammad and Sahalat were tried under Section 302 of the Penal Code, and a district and sessions court sentenced them to death.
Due to the bizarre nature of Islamic law, a murderer can avoid a death sentence if compensation is made to the family of the victim, and if the family agrees to that compensation.
So an agreement was made that Mohhammad would give a daughter to the otherfamily for marriage and thus Naheed's future was sealed before she was ever born!
What is so bizarre about this situation, is that a man can escape criminal punishment for murder so easily. And all he has to do is give away his child, and deny her her rights to choose for herself whom she will marry.
Ain't Islam Grand!!!
One case of vani involved girls not even born being promised as future brides to male members of one family, after a man was killed. Vani happens primarily in rural areas, where village courts, or jirgas decide the outcome over personal disputes, particularly over issues of family law. President Musharraf has ENCOURAGED the settling of family disputes by jirgas, outside of federal jurisdiction.
Pakistan's Daily Times reports that a woman who is now 24 is rebelling against a decision agreed upon when she was only one year old, when she was promised as a "bride".
Naheed Akhtar has filed a police petition against the man scheduled to be her husband, and also against her own father, for "selling" her rights in order to gain a lesser penalty for his own crimes.
The case derives from a crime committed before she was born.
In 1960, her father, Muhammad Zaman, together with his brother Sahalat, killed a man over a land dispute, in their home village of Pacca Ghanjera in Mianwali.
Muhammad and Sahalat were tried under Section 302 of the Penal Code, and a district and sessions court sentenced them to death.
Due to the bizarre nature of Islamic law, a murderer can avoid a death sentence if compensation is made to the family of the victim, and if the family agrees to that compensation.
So an agreement was made that Mohhammad would give a daughter to the otherfamily for marriage and thus Naheed's future was sealed before she was ever born!
What is so bizarre about this situation, is that a man can escape criminal punishment for murder so easily. And all he has to do is give away his child, and deny her her rights to choose for herself whom she will marry.
Ain't Islam Grand!!!
posted by loki at 5:00 PM
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