Islamabad - Tribal elders of the Salekhel tribe in Pakistan have decided to call a grand jirga of other tribes asking the Azadkhel tribe to either declare the killing of their five women or clear the Salakhel men from the allegation of being 'Ghul', meaning 'liable to be executed' under Kohistani custom.
The jirga of the Salekhel tribe was held at Shariyal Shrakot village where over a thousand tribesmen gathered to discuss the emerging situation after the video leak that led to the alleged killing of five women, reports The Express Tribune.
According to two Salekhel elders, the jirga discussed at length the issue of declaring the four women of Azadkhel tribe and two men from Salekhel tribe as 'Ghul' and later condemning them to death by a Jirga of the Azadkhel tribe.
The participants expressed their concern over the concealment of information of killing of the five women by the Azadkhels before the fact-finding mission of human rights activists and the administration.
One of the elders said the tribesmen would call a grand jirga of other tribes to appoint a mediator, who would contact the Azadkhel tribe asking them to follow the centuries-old customs of Kohistan and publicly declare the killing of the women, and if they had not followed the custom of killing women declared 'Ghul', they should clear their two men already arrested by the police, from the death sentence.
The mediator would also ask Azadkhel to also clarify whether they would only kill the two men seen in the cell phone video or there were some other people they have planned to murder, equalling the killing of their five women, he added.
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