Amnesty International has urged Pakistan to dismantle tribal councils (jirgas) responsible for ordering “honor killings.”
Following the tragic case of a girl in Kohistan killed on a Jirga’s directive after a viral video, Nadia Rahman.
Amnesty International’s Deputy Regional Director for Research in South Asia, expressed concern over the government’s failure to curb jirgas, running parallel legal systems that perpetuate patriarchal violence with impunity.
Despite previous rulings by the Supreme Court deeming these councils’ contrary to international commitments, such as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, these extra-legal powers persist.
Rahman emphasized the need to end impunity for violence and abolish village and tribal councils sanctioning such heinous crimes.
