PAKISTAN JERGA PUBLICLY EXECUTES 80-YEAR-OLD IN TRIBAL AREA

August 7, 2008: an octogenarian man was shot dead in public on the orders of a local jirga that found him 'guilty' of kidnapping a girl in the Kala Dhaka tribal area in Pakistan, sources said. Ramoos Khan, 80, allegedly kidnapped the daughter of Adil Mohammad two weeks earlier and reportedly sold her in the Allai area of Batagram district. The girl's family approached the Tilli Sydain jerga, when the accused returned to the area. The jerga found the elderly man "guilty" of kidnapping and selling the girl and ordered the execution. Zargul Khan, a former member of provincial assembly from Kala Dhaka said that the accused, Ramoos Khan, was shot dead in the presence of locals on the orders of the jerga after he "confessed" to having committed the crime. (Sources: BBC, 08/08/2008)