LAHORE, July 27: The much-publicized and widely condemned tribal settlement in which four murder convicts in Abbakhel, Mianwali, saved their lives by giving away Rs8 million and six girls to the complainants as Diyat would be “revised” by a so-called Panchayat that will reassemble at the residence of the Nawab of Kalabagh on Sunday.
The Panchayat is reassembling as a consequence of intervention by the provincial government following the Supreme Court’s suo motu notice of the event and an across the board condemnation by all the segments of the society.
The two parties have already “revised” their earlier settlement and excluded the girls from their agreement on the intervention of police on behalf of the government. “However, it needs to be endorsed by a panchayat,” the people involved in the settlement said during a visit to the area.
The Panchayat comprises Malik Asad, the Nawab of Kalabagh, Obaidullah Khan Shadikhel, a former MNA, Taj Kund, a former MPA, and other notables of the Mianwali district.
The Panchayat had reconciled between the Madikhel (complainant) and Abbakhel (accused) tribes on a murder issue.
