Jirga

CHARSADDA: At least five people were killed while three others injured in firing during a jirga in a Battagram neighbourhood on Tuesday, ARY News reported.  Police said the firing incident took place during the jirga in Batgiram. The…

PESHAWAR: After a breakthrough in talk with tribal elders, the Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement (PTM) on Tuesday agreed not to raise any anti-state slogans, or instigate against the armed forces and other national institutions. PTM also agreed…

RAWALPINDI: Chief of Army Staff General Qamar Javed Bajwa on Wednesday said that Pakistan army fully supports mainstreaming of FATA and shall pursue it in line with aspirations of the tribal brothers. The army chief interacted with and…

KARACHI: Two suspects, held for their involvement in the murders of a young couple on the orders of a jirga in the name of honour, confessed to the crime before a magisterial court on Monday. The couple, 25-year-old Abdul Hadi and…

KARACHI: Police have arrested nine men for allegedly killing a couple in the name of honor on the orders of jirga or elders’ council in the city’s Mominabad area, ARY News reported on Monday. SP Orangi Abid Baloch said the couple hailing…

GHOTKI: A jirga allegedly ordered honor killing of a woman and forced marriages of two young girls in Sindh's Ghotki district, ARY News reported. According to ruling of the jirga, headed by a feudal lord, the woman Sudoori Chachar should…

KARACHI: A young couple was strangled to death on Thursday on the orders of an illegal 'jirga' in Shah Latif Town for marrying on their own freewill. Asmat and Irfana had married on their own freewill more than a year ago and were living…

ISLAMABAD: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) Friday condemned a village council (jirga) for ordering the brutal murder of a young girl after she helped a friend to elope.

ABBOTTABAD: Police sprung into action and arrested ten suspects who were allegedly involved in the burning to death of a 15 year-old girl last week, ARY News reported.