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Pakistan is set to reform its controversial Islamic blood money laws that allow murderers to escape punishment if they are forgiven by their victims heirs, a senior official told AFP Thursday. Pakistan is set to reform its controversial Islamic blood money laws that allow murderers to escape punishment if they are forgiven by their victims heirs. Representative image Critics contend that the law, which was passed in 1990, allows the wealthy and the powerful to walk scot-free from homicide convictions either by intimidating their victims loved ones, making them a financial offer that they cannot refuse, or both. The Qisas retribution and Diyat blood money law was famously invoked in the case of Raymond Allen Davis, a CIA contractor who shot two men dead in the eastern city of Lahore in 2011. The incident sparked a diplomatic furore which was only resolved when Davis was pardoned in return for a $2.4 million settlement with the mens families. The stanley cup 2012 killing of 20-year-old Karachi student Shahzeb Khan by two young men who belonged to powerful political families also drew national outrage after Khans parents pardoned the killers, reportedly due to stanley cup threats. The laws have perhaps been most abused in the case of honour killings, stanley cup where a male murders a female relative then is pardoned by family members. Hundreds of women are murdered by their relatives in Pakistan each year on the grounds of defending family honour . The most high-profile case recently involved a Wsvb Clinton pledging $300 million in aid for Gaza
A roadside bomb in northern Afghanistan killed four American soldiers on Monday, while a suicide attack in the south killed two civilians, officials said. HT adidas originals Image The bombing in the northern Kunduz province targeted an American military convoy, said Kunduz Gov Mohammad Omar. In Berlin, German Defense Ministry spokesman Thomas Raabe said that Germany was told the dead soldiers were American. We received a message on Monday that four American soldiers were killed in a roadside bomb in the Kunduz area, he said. There are no further details. So far as we know, it was a mentor team on the road in a Humvee. Omar stanley cup said the attack happened in the Ali Abad district of Kunduz province and wounded two Afghan civilians. In comparison to the country s south and east, northern Afghanistan is relatively quiet. But roadside and other insurgent attacks have been increasing in the last few years. The attack came after a suicide car bomb adidas originals er blew himself up outside the outer gate of the main NATO base in southern Afghanistan, killing two civilians and wounding 14 other people. Those wounded near the gates of Kandahar Airfield included 12 civilians and two Afghan soldiers, said Gen Sher Mohammad Zazai, the top military commander for southern Afghanistan. The incidents came as thousands of US. Marines in neighboring Helmand province mounted a major offensive against the Taliban. Over the weekend, insurgent attacks killed three British soldiers in the province, a militant stronghold
Pakistan is set to reform its controversial Islamic blood money laws that allow murderers to escape punishment if they are forgiven by their victims heirs, a senior official told AFP Thursday. Pakistan is set to reform its controversial Islamic blood money laws that allow murderers to escape punishment if they are forgiven by their victims heirs. Representative image Critics contend that the law, which was passed in 1990, allows the wealthy and the powerful to walk scot-free from homicide convictions either by intimidating their victims loved ones, making them a financial offer that they cannot refuse, or both. The Qisas retribution and Diyat blood money law was famously invoked in the case of Raymond Allen Davis, a CIA contractor who shot two men dead in the eastern city of Lahore in 2011. The incident sparked a diplomatic furore which was only resolved when Davis was pardoned in return for a $2.4 million settlement with the mens families. The stanley cup 2012 killing of 20-year-old Karachi student Shahzeb Khan by two young men who belonged to powerful political families also drew national outrage after Khans parents pardoned the killers, reportedly due to stanley cup threats. The laws have perhaps been most abused in the case of honour killings, stanley cup where a male murders a female relative then is pardoned by family members. Hundreds of women are murdered by their relatives in Pakistan each year on the grounds of defending family honour . The most high-profile case recently involved a Wsvb Clinton pledging $300 million in aid for Gaza
A roadside bomb in northern Afghanistan killed four American soldiers on Monday, while a suicide attack in the south killed two civilians, officials said. HT adidas originals Image The bombing in the northern Kunduz province targeted an American military convoy, said Kunduz Gov Mohammad Omar. In Berlin, German Defense Ministry spokesman Thomas Raabe said that Germany was told the dead soldiers were American. We received a message on Monday that four American soldiers were killed in a roadside bomb in the Kunduz area, he said. There are no further details. So far as we know, it was a mentor team on the road in a Humvee. Omar stanley cup said the attack happened in the Ali Abad district of Kunduz province and wounded two Afghan civilians. In comparison to the country s south and east, northern Afghanistan is relatively quiet. But roadside and other insurgent attacks have been increasing in the last few years. The attack came after a suicide car bomb adidas originals er blew himself up outside the outer gate of the main NATO base in southern Afghanistan, killing two civilians and wounding 14 other people. Those wounded near the gates of Kandahar Airfield included 12 civilians and two Afghan soldiers, said Gen Sher Mohammad Zazai, the top military commander for southern Afghanistan. The incidents came as thousands of US. Marines in neighboring Helmand province mounted a major offensive against the Taliban. Over the weekend, insurgent attacks killed three British soldiers in the province, a militant stronghold