Saints of Darkness

http://www.outlookindia.com/full.asp?fodname=20050124&fname=Pakistan+(F)&sid=1

Case Two
Sanam, 9, daughter of Mohammad Saleh Kori, a resident of the Microwave Colony, Sukkur, Sind, was a student of Abdul Wahid Chachar’s madrassa. On February 15, 2004, at the end of her classes, Maulvi Abdul Wahid told her that she was his wife and would have to live with him. Sanam rushed out to tell her parents about the incident. When her father went to the madrassa to complain, Abdul produced a nikahnama bearing Kori and his daughter’s signatures.

The father-daughter had been tricked into appending their signature to the marriage document. Apparently, the maulana had asked them to sign on a form, claiming it would enable the family to receive zakat (charity money). The illiterate father, obviously, couldn’t distinguish between a zakat form and a nikahnama. Worse, the local Chachar tribesmen began pressuring him to hand over Sanam to Abdul.

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tsk tsk. Educating people is almost an impossible task.

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ok, and now plz describe to us how this is related to religion????

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^ditto

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what i don't understand is, how is the Nikka even legal when the girl is first of all 9 years old and secondly, the girl and the father were deceived in signing a paper that wasn't clearly a Nikkah. Just because their signatures appeared on a Nikkah, doesnt make the girl this *******'s wife.

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the nikah should be nullified but of course it some paindu village in podunk Pakistan so the poor girl will be raped and made to live w/ this so called husband.