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.
I, too, fear death.
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 Islamabad.
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.
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