ISLAMABAD – Four women condemned to death by a tribal jirga or council for dancing and singing with men at a wedding in northern Pakistan have been killed, TV news channels reported.
However, senior officials refuted the news reports and described them as baseless.
Interior Minister Rehman Malik ordered a judicial inquiry into the reported killing of the four women as punishment for dancing with men at a wedding in Kohistan district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province.
There was confusion about the number of women reportedly killed.
Geo News channel reported that four women were killed while The Express Tribune reported on its website that five women were killed.
The fifth woman was the sister of one the condemned women, the report said.—
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