Good grief.
Meet the sharia barbarians of Pakistan who buy and sell their daughters, who penetrate them, rape them, impregnate and beat them, discard them and treat them worse than garbage. Better to be born a goat than a female child in Pakistan.
These are our "allies"?
Malala's Forgotten Sisters
Actually, they are not forgotten, they are just ignored.
"Nazia
was only 5 when her father married her off to a much older man, a stranger, as
compensation for a murder her uncle had committed. The decision to give the
little girl away as payment, along with two goats and a piece of land, was made
by a jirga -- an assembly of local elders that makes up the justice
system in most of Pakistan's and Afghanistan's tribal areas, where conventional
courts are either not trusted or nonexistent. "One night a man came and took me
by the hand," Nazia says, in a nearly inaudible moan."
"There is an aggravating factor in the fate of girls such
as Nazia. Given away as compensation to resolve tribal disputes -- a custom
known as swara in Pashtun -- the
girls will always represent the enemy for the "dishonored" family, a symbol of
their disgrace."
"In Pakistan, at least 180 cases of swara were reported
last year -- every other day -- thanks to the work of local journalists and
activists...The average age of swara girls is between 5 and 9 years old,
according to registered cases and local accounts. The reason provides an
insight into the immense challenge in changing deep-rooted traditions in
Pakistan: In the tribal areas, a girl older than this is probably already
promised to somebody else. "
