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Posts Tagged ‘Wani’

Alive Burial of 5 Balochi Women : Ego or Tradition?

By Amna Gilani • Sep 3rd, 2008 • Category: Misc, Worth A Second Look

Senator Israrullah Zehri and the senator Jan Mohammad Jamali first said with arrogance that the English newspaper columnists of Islamabad cannot understand the Baloch traditions and principles. They both were adamant to defend the gruesome sin committed in their areas and they were of the opinion that those traditions are carrying on for the thousands […]


Sawara and Wani : Forced Marriages for Murder

By Amna Gilani • Apr 15th, 2008 • Category: Misc, Worth A Second Look

There are enough problems in our society like poverty, unemployment, load-shedding of gas and electricity, food shortage, medicine shortage, law and order and political restiveness, that social problems like Sawara and Wani don’t get much of a spotlight and just act as an interesting topic for the drama serials or an excuse for the NGOs […]