NEWS DESK: A man and a woman who had married out of freewill were forcibly separated under a ruling given by yet another panchayat in Multan’s Muzafarrabad area, reported Samaa. Adnan and Uzma had married each other out of freewill. The panchayat made them sign divorce papers at gunpoint. According to Adnan, he has approached...

Adnan and Uzma had married each other out of freewill. The panchayat made them sign divorce papers at gunpoint. According to Adnan, he has approached the court against the panchayat’s ruling while Uzma said that they want to continue living together.

Meanwhile, cleric Mufti Zubair said that as per the tenets of Islam, the divorce did not take place. According to him, divorce comes into effect if the man utters ‘talaq’ thrice in a row. Speaking about the case, he said that the divorce did not take place as the couple was forcibly made to sign the divorce papers. He added that the two can reconcile and continue living as a lawfully married couple.

Just last month, a panchayat in Multan broke all records of violation of human rights: the 17-year-old sister of a rapist was raped by the brother of a 12-year-old rape survivor on its orders.

In Rajanpur, a man identified as Umer had sexually assaulted a 12-year-old girl, after which the panchayat ruled that the child’s brother rape the sister of the suspect. Umer was ordered to bring along the unmarried women of his family before the panchayat, after which Umer’s 17-year-old sister was raped by the brother of the 12-year-old raped child on the panchayat’s orders.