September 05, 2008	Friday	Ramazan 04, 1429

PESHAWAR, Sept 4: The NWFP assembly unanimously adopted a resolution on Thursday condemning the burying alive of three women in the Naseerabad district of Balochistan and demanded stern action against the people involved in the crime.

Senior Minister Bashir Ahmed Bilour described it as an act of barbarity which should not be called a “traditional way of dispensing justice”.

He said that only mentally ill people could dub it a tradition. Women were held in great reverence even in tribal society, he added.

Mr Bilour criticised the people who had endorsed the burying alive of women.

He said there were many concepts, which had nothing to do with tribal customs, laws and traditions.

The brutal act was the result of feudal approach, which is inimical to the interest of mankind, he said.

The women MPAs demanded exemplary punishment for people who committed the crime and their feudal supporters.