Peshawar, May 29: A tribal court in Kohistan district of Khyber Pakhunkhwa (formerly NWFP) has handed down death penalty to six people, including four girls and two boy for dancing in a wedding party.
The Jirga (tribal gathering) issued a decree after a mobile phone video emerged of the six in a remote village.
Pakistani authorities in the area said local clerics had ordered the punishment over allegations that the men and women danced and sang together in Gada village, in defiance of strict tribal customs that men and women should stay separately at weddings.
“It was decided that the men will be killed first, but they ran away so the women are safe for the moment. I have sent a team to rescue them and am waiting to hear some news,” a police officer told a news agency, adding that the women had been confined to their homes.
“This is tribal enmity. The video has been engineered to defame the tribe, he added.
