Sindh police tasked to hunt jirgas

KARACHI - After a horrific incident of burying alive of 5 women over karo-kari in Balochistan, the Sindh government has issued directives to all the District police officers to make sure of a complete ban on holding of illegal jirgas and arrest the people who hold jirgas, senior official of Sindh Police told The Nation.

Official sources said that on the directives of Home Department of Government of Sindh, the Inspector General/Provincial Police Officer wrote a letter to all the District Police Officers (DPOs) and directed them for ensuring the ban on parallel judicial system of jirgas in Sindh.

After shocking incident of burial alive to 5 women in Balochistan on the verdict of a tribal jirga, the IG Police Sindh instructed to all the District Police Officers that complete ban should be enforced on holding of jirgas, sources said, adding that order had also been issued for the arrest of tribal chiefs and other responsible persons who found involved in organising jirgas.

Meanwhile, it was also learnt that a severe action would be taken against the tribal chiefs/persons, who issued decree for murder of any person, to decide fortune of any woman and other verdict related with women.