Vigil for Khurram Zaki

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Shazia Shaheen

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May 10, 2016, 6:41:13 AM5/10/16

to Hilda Saeed, pr...@googlegroups.com, Chief Executive Officer, EVAW Alliance, Insani Huqooq Ittehad (IHI), Valerie Khan-2, Saliha Ramay, rabeea shah, Dr. Farzana Bari, iarehman2007, Qamar, munaza...@hotmail.com, Nasreen Azhar, Nafeesa Inayat, Urooj Shahid, Saadia Mumtaz, Muneera Javed, I. A. Rehman, evawg.a...@gmail.com, naureen...@hotmail.co.uk, Tahira Abdullah, Sameena Nazir, Rakhshinda Perveen, Naheed Aziz, Immad uddin, Ambreen Ahmad, Rafat Yasmin, Yasmin Zaidi, Zehra Kamal, Maria Rashid, Sumaira Ishfaq, Farkhanda Aurangzeb, Nazia Raja, Rizwana Waraich, Aqsa Khan, Safeer Ullah Khan, Saima Toor, Noor Ul Islam, Shabana Arif, Arifa Mazhar, dar.n...@gmail.com, Farah Taufiq, Saliha Ramay, insani-huq...@googlegroups.com, salma hafeez, bilquis tahira

Dear IHI members and friends,

Please join a vigil for Khuram Zaki – who sacrificed his life fighting against violence & extremism

10th May (Tuesday) 6:30pm @ Mr. Books, F-6 Markaz, Islamabad.

Please bring candles, flowers, placards

In solidarity

Shazia

From: Hilda Saeed [mailto:hilda...@gmail.com]
Sent: Saturday, May 07, 2016 12:57 PM
To: pr...@googlegroups.com
Cc: Chief Executive Officer; EVAW Alliance; Insani Huqooq Ittehad (IHI); Shazia Shaheen; Valerie Khan-2; Saliha Ramay; rabeea shah; Dr. Farzana Bari; iarehman2007; Qamar; munaza...@hotmail.com; Nasreen Azhar; Nafeesa Inayat; Urooj Shahid; Saadia Mumtaz; Muneera Javed; I. A. Rehman; evawg.a...@gmail.com; naureen...@hotmail.co.uk
Subject: Re: Fwd: Girl killed in Abbott abad and silence of the society...more than "honor" killing

Probably not a deafening silence for long; I had been too shocked and stunned to even fully react to this brutality, and possibly there are many others who feel the same -- our laws alone aren't enough-- we need to change the mind set that promotes such inhuman conduct.

We need to do away with those officials in the legislatures who are themselves leaders of jirgas, and promoters of such decisions and brutality. Hilda

On 6 May 2016 at 21:55, Rakhshinda Perveen <dr.r.p...@gmail.com> wrote:

In grief
In.helplessness
In solidarity????

On 06-May-2016 9:44 pm, "Syed Ishtiaq Gilani (CEO - UGOOD)" <c...@ugood.org> wrote:

Indeed it’s a heartbreaking incident took place in Abbottabad.

17-year-old Ambreen was killed over the decision of local jirga for supporting the alleged affair of Saima with the boy on April 29. She was strangled to death and then burnt to ashes in a minivan.

A Jirga was held under Pervez supervision, in which it was decided to punish Ambreen and “set an example”.

Police personnel have stated that as many as 15 people including slain Ambreen’s Mother and Father were apprehended for further interrogation.

An FIR has also been registered against the jirga members in the case under Section 302 of Pakistan Penal Code and Section 7 of Anti-Terrorism Act.

The tragic incident had drawn condemnations from all around as Chief Minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Pervaiz Khattak and National Assembly’s Standing Committee on Human Rights ordered stern action against the culprits.

Hundreds of women are murdered by their relatives in Pakistan each year on the pretext of defending family "honour", but it is rare to hear of those who facilitate elopements being killed as well.

Pakistan amended its criminal code in 2005 to prevent men who kill female relatives escaping punishment by pardoning themselves as an "heir" of the victim.

But it is left to a judge’s discretion to decide whether to impose a prison sentence when other relatives of the victim forgive the killer -- a loophole which critics say remains exploited.

Regards,

Syed Ishtiaq Ul Hassan Gilani

Chief Executive Officer

House No. 594-B, Street No. 29, Sector G-10/2, Islamabad – Pakistan

Tell: +92 51 235 3041-42| Fax: +92 51 235 3040| Cell: +92 300 500 5989

E-mail: c...@ugood.org, Website: www.ugood.org

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She was 16

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From: "Rakhshinda Perveen" <dr.r.p...@gmail.com>
Date: 06-May-2016 8:38 pm

Subject: Girl killed in Abbott abad and silence of the society...more than "honor" killing

To: <evawg.a...@gmail.com>, "Insani Huqooq Ittehad (IHI)" <ihi-pa...@googlegroups.com>, "Shazia Shaheen" <shazia...@spopk.org>, "Saliha Ramay" <saliha...@gmail.com>, "rabeea shah" <rabee...@gmail.com>, "Saadia Mumtaz" <saad...@gmail.com>, <nasree...@gmail.com>, "I. A. Rehman" <i...@hrcp-web.org>, "iarehman2007" <iarehm...@gmail.com>, <drfarz...@gmail.com>, <qa...@blueveins.org>, "Nafeesa Inayat" <nafees...@hotmail.com>, <munaza...@hotmail.com>, "Urooj Shahid" <uroojs...@gmail.com>, "Muneera Javed" <muneer...@hotmail.com>, <naureen...@hotmail.co.uk>
Cc:

Is there a deafening silence or am I not receiving any relevant e-mail+news?

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