Taliban flogging of teen girl: a challenge to Pakistan's Supreme Court and civil society

A year later, those men say the images from that day remain etched in their memories. The teenage militant wore white. The girl, a 17-year-old named Chand Bibi, stood behind a hastily made screen of sheets and shawls as she was flogged. She kept crying out, "Why? Why?"

Khan, flogged first, was given 35 lashes. Then screening was put up to shield the crowd's view of the girl. A teenaged Taliban insurgent walked up to her and struck her 17 times with the strap, villagers said.

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The Taliban has slowly and steadily increased its strict interpretation of Islamic law since returning to power. Despite initial promises to the contrary, the group has curtailed human rights and imposed restrictions on women such as blocking teenage girls from getting an education.RELATED Taliban shift tactics in their determination to control, oppress women

After their takeover of Afghanistan in August 2021, the Taliban at first gender segregated classrooms in universities as long as they "followed Islamic standards".[10] However, in September 2021, they only allowed boys to return to school, preventing most teenage girls from returning to secondary school education, and blocked women in Afghanistan from working in most sectors outside of health and education.[11][12][13] Women have been ordered to wear face coverings in public, and barred from travelling more than 45 miles (70 km) without a close male relative. In July 2022, Hibatullah Akhundzada, the Taliban's reclusive leader, lashed out at the criticism and demands of the international community on the Taliban's human rights restrictions, rejecting any negotiations or compromise on his "Islamic system" of governance.[14][15][16] In December 2022, the Taliban government also prohibited university education for women and prevented them from working in NGOs.[17][18] It was also reported that girls had been barred from primary education,[19][20][21] though the Afghan Education Ministry has denied those reports.[22][23]

The Pashtuns desperately want peace, but the Taliban only become harsher. Someone confronts Toor Pekai in the market for not wearing a burqa, and a video circulates of a Taliban member publicly flogging a teenage girl for leaving her house with a man who is not her husband. Some thirty or forty thousand people attend a public meeting with Sufi Mohammad, who proclaims that the Taliban will move on to Islamabad. President Obama becomes increasingly concerned about the situation in Pakistan and threatens to intervene. In May 2009, the army resumes its effort to drive the Taliban out of Swat. The residents of Mingora are told to evacuate.

Jerry BozemanPlainview, TexasExcellent work. I know that the education, experiences and exposures of children at an early age are the major contributing factors to their career aspirations as adults. Examples here are the 5 year old girl who wants to be a doctor so she can help her mother and the two teenage boys -- one who wants to be in the Taliban and the other in the Pakistan military. Perhaps there is a message in that for us. The attention in the US seems to be sure that "No child is left behind" in reading in third grade. After that academic test scores are all important. The culture of the country has been that of "make money and over-consume." Over 60% of recent male college graduates are business graduates with 40% females being business graduates. I suggest we pay attention to the education and messages we are sending our own children. They are the most important asset we have and we are unable to respect the adaptive nature of each child and guide them in pursuing meaningful and contributing careers from an early age in the education setting or by our own lives and community examples. We must do better if we want to have a variety of useful and better adjusted individuals as citizens.

The attack on 14-year-old Malala Yousafzai underlines the ambivalence of Pakistani state institutions towards Islamist militants. It is also one of those rare incidents that seems to be galvanising public opinion against the militants. A 2009 video showing Taliban militants flogging a teenage girl in the Swat Valley created similar anger across the country and [...]

The attack on 14-year-old Malala Yousafzai underlines the ambivalence of Pakistani state institutions towards Islamist militants.It is also one of those rare incidents that seems to be galvanising public opinion against the militants.A 2009 video showing Taliban militants flogging a teenage girl in the Swat Valley created similar anger across the country and served as a catalyst for a military operation that wiped militants out of Swat.

The reaction is reminiscent of the one that followed the 2009 video that showed the Taliban flogging a girl for alleged adultery.Though the military had been deployed in Swat two years earlier, it was the surfacing of that video that finally forced them into conducting a decisive operation. 2ff7e9595c