Only Fair.... maybe

galwayrush

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8425820.stm

A Pakistani court has ordered that two men have their ears and noses cut off, as punishment for doing the same to a woman who refused to marry one of them.

The two brothers were found guilty of kidnapping 20-year-old Fazeelat Bibi, one of their cousins, in September.

The judge in Lahore also sentenced them to life in prison.

Sentence was passed on Monday under a rarely invoked Islamic law dating from the 1980s. In the past similar sentences have been revoked on appeal.

'Eye for an eye'

Government prosecutor Ehtisham Qadir said the punishment had been awarded in accordance with the Islamic principle of "an eye for an eye".

Sher Mohammad and Amanat abducted Fazeelat Bibi as she returned home from work at a brick kiln in the Raiwind area of Lahore, the court heard.

"They put a noose around her neck, and then cut off her ears and nose," Mr Qadir told the BBC.

Three alleged accomplices are still being sought by police.

The crime was committed after Fazeelat Bibi's parents refused to give her hand in marriage to Sher Mohammad, Mr Qadir said.

Islamic laws were introduced in Pakistan during the military regime of General Ziaul Haq in the 1980s.

The BBC's M Ilyas Khan in Islamabad says punishments prescribed under the laws have rarely been awarded, and never carried out.

Pakistani human rights activists have long campaigned for more to be done to stop attacks against women, which often include facial disfigurement.

However, they also disagree with the type of punishment handed out in Lahore, correspondents say.

davyjose

hear hear, smell's like justice to me.

Jesus Wept

Jebediah: "People, our search is over. On this site we shall build a new town, where we can worship freely, govern justly, and grow vast fields of hemp for making rope and blankets."

Shelbyville Manhattan: "yes, and marry our cousins."

Rented Mule

An eye for an eye makes the world blind

Ghandi

My name is URL

Rented Mule wrote: »

An eye for an eye makes the world blind

Ghandi

Have you been playing the new CoD?

Whosbetter?

Their cruelty nose no bounds...

Midnight_EG

I smell a rat, anybody hear him maybe. Hmmmm.

Mike 1972

Rented Mule wrote: »

Ghandi

Dont think most Pakistanis would be particularly big fans ?

Wazdakka

She should have claimed that she used to be a hermaphrodite but they cut off her balls too.

Eye for an eye that one ye sick bastards.

Jesus Juice

Its true,Pakistan is in a digit-al age

Latchy

It's called cutting your nose off to spite your face ears

orourkeda

Go on the p*ki's

Rented Mule

My name is URL wrote: »

Have you been playing the new CoD?

Not yet ....bought it for the boy for Christmas though.

Best way to get what I want LOL

ham_n_mustard

if we brought in some mad punishments like that then maybe sick fookers wouldnt go around beating up pensioners for tenners.
come on ireland, lets start cutting fingers off people convicted of assaults on kids/elderly. one digit for every conviction.if they run out of digits, move on to hands, and so on and so forth. lets seem how many fookers will have 56 previous convictions then!!!

My name is URL

Rented Mule wrote: »

Not yet ....bought it for the boy for Christmas though.

Best way to get what I want LOL

It's a good game..

The mission where you're a terrorist shooting civilians in an airport is kinda weird

how old is your son? :pac:

Horsefumbler

Rented Mule wrote: »

"An eye for an eye makes the world blind

Ghandi"

- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2

fixed

Rented Mule

My name is URL wrote: »

It's a good game..

The mission where you're a terrorist shooting civilians in an airport is kinda weird

how old is your son? :pac:

Didn't read the spoiler .....two boys 15 and 2.

Here's hoping I can wrestle the controller away from the two year old at night !!

--Kaiser--

No, not fair, should have cut off their balls too

extra-ordinary_

Horsefumbler wrote: »

Rented Mule wrote: »

An eye for an eye makes the world blind

Ghandi

- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2

fixed

I think Gandhi had it first.