Islamabad, May 31 (ANI): In
order to resolve a feud brought about by the "kidnapping" and subsequent
love marriage of a girl by a married man, a Jirga in Pakistan has
decided that the man's six-month-old daughter should be married off to
the girl's 25-year-old brother.
According to sources, Alamzeb,
"abducted" the daughter of his neighbour, Naseer, from the Reri Goth
area in Karachi two months ago, and that the two were actually in love
with one another, reports the News.
But the family members of the
eloped girl took the case as a matter of honour, and they started
pressuring the family of the accused and also threatening them.
The
sources said that Alamzeb, who has three children, hailed from the
Hazara region, while the girl belonged to Charsadda in
Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa.
The sources said that the wrangle between the
two families led to holding of a Jirga comprising elders of the
locality.
The Jirga, according to the sources, brokered a
compromise between the two families and it was decided that the
six-month-old daughter of Alamzeb should be married off to the brother
of the girl, Haq Nawaz, 25, on the basis of Swara.
Swara is a
child marriage custom in tribal areas of Pakistan and Afghanistan.
This
custom is tied to blood feuds among different tribes and clans where
the young girls are forcibly married to the members of different clans
in order to resolve the feuds.
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