SUKKUR: A primary schoolteacher was ordered by a jirga (tribal court) to pay a fine of Rs500,000 to the family of a woman after it found him ‘guilty’ of an extramarital affair with her.

The jirga, held in Haibat Shaheed village near Tangwani town of Kandhkot-Kashmore district on Tuesday, was presided over by a feudal lord, Wadera Ali Sher Dahani.

The issue of the alleged affair had caused a long-standing hostility between the Khoso and Dahani communities until the matter was taken to the jirga, which heard the two sides and ‘convicted’ the schoolteacher, Aijaz Khoso.

Khoso’s family paid Rs100,000 on the spot to the aggrieved Dahani family and promised to pay off the remaining fine money within the next three months.

The rival communities declared an end to their hostility by accepting the jirga’s ruling.

Two killed in road accident

A head-on collision between a double-cabin van and a container-mounted trailer left two persons dead and three others injured near Kori Khooh bus stop in Mirpur Mathelo town of Ghotki district late on Monday evening. The deceased were identified as Ali Shaikh and Shabbir Gadani.

Published in Dawn, May 23rd, 2018