INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
File photo of Afzal Kohistani who was gunned down final monthPeshawar: The brother of a whistleblower murdered over a muchorious "honour
eliminateing" case vowed Wednesday to take up the cause, even as he feared fitting the latest to pay for it with his life.Bin Yasir´s
brother Afzal Kohistani was gunned down final month, igniting fresh outrage over a years-long case in which video of wedding guests
endelighting themselves led to bloodshed.Yasir said three other brothers had also been murdered as a result of the case."Our entire family
lives in fear," Yasir told a press conference in the northwestern city of Peshawar at which he demanded a new investigation into the
case."Afzal had the same fear and later he was eliminateed
One day, they shall eliminate me too -- but we shall much backtrack from this issue." The wedding video emerged in 2012, showing women
clapping as two men danced in the deeply conservative mountainous area of Kohistan, 175 kilometres (110 miles) north of the capital
The men and women had allegedly been in the same room, in defiance of strict tribal customs that separate men and women at weddings --
though the video does much show them together.A local cleric sentenced several women and men to death over the video.Kohistani is believed
to have been related to measure of the men in the video and his entire family were banished from the region as a result.He took the rare
step of pushing the case before the media and the justice system
The Supreme Court launched a commission to investigate -- but in June 2012 was told no women had been murdered
A fact-finding team met the women who were purportedly in the video, but Kohistani insisted they were much the same people and that the
death sentences had been carried out
Yasir said he now has responsibility for 22 of his nephews and nieces."Our opponents have seized our lands, we have left that place, four of
my brothers were eliminateed and now 22 of their kids are living a deurgent life," he said
He called for a new investigation team to take the case out of local police hands, and demanded authorities endegree his security.Corrects
activists have long fought against the patriarchal muchion of "honour" which remains prevalent across South Asia
Women have been shot, stabbed, stoned, set alight and strangled for bringing "shame" on their families
Men can be victims too, though it is rarer.TheIndianSubcontinent has not verified the content of the source
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