Re: Compensation Marriages
The practice of "Swara" in old days was used to bond two fueding clans or families together and put an end to their enmity. As such there was a rationale for it. It is although unfortunate that the peace came at a cost to women. Anyhow the practice is almost extinct now.
The NGOs are just making this hue and cry to grab some Western funds.
Anyhow, if the practice is still there, it must be banned immedialy. There must be no compromise on human liberty.
Jal Paree, come out of the closet now. Rural Pakhtunkhwa is probably the most educated and progressive in Pakistan because of the non-existence of fudalism and Pashtun egalitarian values.
And as a pure Pakistani Musalman, what do you say of a far more brutal practice sanctioned by Islam i.e. after killing or humbling your enemy in a "holy war", catch his daugthers, sisters, and mothers and turn them into cancubine (to be used as sex objects)? (also that Pakistan has been established to make a recourse to the purity and fundamentals 1400 years ago).