A Jirga held in Din Mohammad Kosh village near Kashmore on Wednesday evening decided to give a 10-year old girl in marriage to settle a dispute over an old Karo-Kari incident. Reports reaching here said the Jirga gave the verdict to settle a 10-year-old Karo-Kari dispute between two groups of Kosh community.
The dispute started after Rafiq Ahmed and Taj Bibi, wife of Mohammad Ibrahim, were declared Karo-Kari and Taj Bibi was killed but Rafiq Ahmed ran away to save his life. The Jirga declared Rafiq Ahmed Kosh as Karo and asked his family to give a girl in marriage to Mohammad Ibrahim. Upon this, Nazir Ahmed Kosh, Rafiq's elder brother, consented to marry his daughter Nasima, 10, with Mohammad Ibrahim.
Sources in the village said that after hearing about the Jirga verdict, Nasima fled her home and took refuge at the house of her maternal uncle, Mohammad Nawaz Kosh, who had decided to move court against the Jirga decision.