Pakistan's Information Minister Sherry Rehman on Monday informed the National Assembly that the government had started investigation into the reported incident of shooting and burying alive of three girls and two women in Balochistan.
A Pakistani provincial assembly on Monday unanimously passed a resolution vehemently condemning the burying alive of five women in southwestern Balochistan.
Local newspaper The News reported on Aug. 25 that three young girls in Balochistan wanted marriage of their choice and it infuriated their elders.
Some tribesmen brought these three girls to the desert and shot at them. They dragged the girls into a nearby ditch and leveled it with earth and stones before the girls could breathe their last. When two shocked elderly women tried to rescue the hapless girls, they too were gunned down and buried in the same manner, according to The News.
"This Assembly strongly condemns the brutal incident where-in five women were buried alive recently in Balochistan and considers it a heinous crime against humanity, and recommends to the government to approach the Federal government to unmask and punish the perpetrators of this nefarious act, and to ensure the cessation of reprehensible incidents in future," said the resolution.
Different social organizations and people Monday gathered in front of the parliament house here in protest of the killing of the women, according to local Express TV channel.Gao
Source:Xinhua
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