second class citizen report of the day

the GOOD news is (if there is any good news in this story at all) is that the father is NOT going to turn his daughters over.

Blood debt women offered up for rape
By Isambard Wilkinson in Sultanwala(Filed: 22/11/2005)
A village council in Pakistan has decreed that five young women should be abducted, raped or killed for refusing to honour childhood "marriages".

Blood debt women offered up for rapeBy Isambard Wilkinson in Sultanwala(Filed: 22/11/2005)
A village council in Pakistan has decreed that five young women should be abducted, raped or killed for refusing to honour childhood "marriages".
The women, who are cousins, were married in absentia by a mullah in their Punjabi village to illiterate sons of their family's enemies in 1996, when they were aged from six to 13.
The marriages were part of a compensation agreement ordered by the village council and reached at gunpoint after the father of one of the girls shot dead a family rival.
The rival families have now called in their "debt", demanding the marriages to the village men are fulfilled.
The case is becoming a cause célèbre in Pakistan, pitting tribal mores against a group of modern-minded, educated women. Amna Niazi, the eldest of the five at 22, is taking a degree in English literature, while both her sisters want to attend university.
Their fathers are supporting them and have refused to hand them over, leading to a resumption of the blood feud, with two relatives shot recently and 20 people arrested, while promises of further retribution and murder abound...........

we are no more than possessions. we are chattel, we are to be traded and sold.