Minister of Postal Services Mir Israrullah Zehri of Pakistan

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By Rauf KlasraISLAMABAD: The defiant woman Senator from Sindh, Yasmeen Shah, dropped a bombshell in the Senate Committee on Human Rights on Friday by saying that her fellow Senator Mir Israrullah Zehri had warned her that a death squad comprising 12 tribesmen had been dispatched to assassinate her for raising the issue of burial of five women in Balochistan.

She explained that none other than Senator Mir Israrullah Zehri had told her in clear terms that a death squad had been sent to eliminate her by some furious Baloch, who did not like her defiance on the floor of the house.

Talking to The News, Senator Yasmeen Shah said during the last Senate session, she was told by Senator Seemi that Senator Zehri had talked about the death squad of 12 tribesmen dispatched from Balochistan to kill Yasmeen.

Yasmeen said when Zehri was confirming this, some other senators were also present there who heard him saying all this to her.

Zehri says that Baloch people have always accorded great reverence and honour to women in society and that his party is a strong advocate of women rights.

AND MIR ISRARULLAH ZEHRI IS CORRECT PERSON BEACUSE THEY SUPPORTED THE BALOCH SYSTEM AND WE ALL BALOCHS SUPPORTED MIR ISRARULLAH ZEHRI THEY SOLVE THIS PROBLEM OF BALOCH AND BALOCHISTAN AND ONE THINK MORE THAT WE ARE BALOCH WE DO NOT REMOVE THIS SYSTEM IN BALOCHISTAN.

So I say if they want to keep their women clothed in curtains, and then savagely beat them to an inch of their lives for something like learning how to read or making eye contact with a man then I say let em! For all you know this quote by Ullah Zehri was taken totally out of context.

Zehri is the uncle of the girls killed.

Senator Zehri said that in the past the people of Balochistan had been deprived of their rights, which increased their frustration, but the present government was making serious efforts to solve their problems.

tvGEO PakistanDeath squad sent to eliminate me, says Yasmeen ShahUpdated at: 1025 PST, Saturday, September 13, 2008KARACHI: The woman Senator from Sindh, Yasmeen Shah said in the Senate Committee on Human Rights that her fellow Senator Mir Israrullah Zehri had warned her that a death squad comprising 12 tribesmen had been dispatched to assassinate her for raising the issue of burial of five women in Balochistan.

Israrullah Zehri has openly defended the murder of young women buried alive on the basis that it is a tribal custom and has threatened critics of this scandalous attitude in the Senate.

The woman Senator from Sindh, Yasmeen Shah said in the Senate Committee on Human Rights that her fellow Senator Mir Israrullah Zehri had warned her that a death squad comprising 12 tribesmen had been dispatched to assassinate her for raising the issue of burial of five women in Balochistan.

Senator Zehri had justified the killing of women in the name of honour and tribal customs when this issue was raised in the Senate on Aug 29 by Yasmeen Shah.

Zehri had warned his fellow senators in clear words to refrain from making any comments on the issue of burial of live women in the name of tribal tradition.

In Islamabad, Yasmin Shah raised the issue of killing of the girls upon which Senator Israrullah Zehri said such killings were part of the Baluch tribal traditions.

Mir Israrullah Zehri had backed the killing of his eldest brother Rasool Bakhsh Zehri at the home of the late marble magnate Mir Nabi Bakhsh Zehri in Quetta two decades back.

Mr Zehri had stunned parliament by pronouncing that such medieval and barbaric traditions helped stop obscenity, and therefore, other legislators ought not to make a big issue out of it.

Mr Zehri is the same person who defended the practice of honour killings as a tribal custom when the recent case of the alive burial of five women in Baluchistan was raised in the senate.

Zehri is a senator from Jafarabad, Balochistan, representing Balochistan National Party in the coalition.

While Bijarani has been made the new education minister, Zehri has been given the portfolio of postal services.

While Bijarani is a senior PPP leader, Zehri is a Senator and belongs to a minority alliance partner in the coalition government.

Bijarani has been charged with presiding over a "jirga" which gave away five young girls as a form of compensation, and Zehri had recently hit international media headlines after defending the burying alive of women in "honour-killing" cases.

SUKKUR : Federal Minister for Postal Service Mir Israrullah Zehri has urged India to avoid escalating tensions saying that Pakistan is committed to peace but its desire for peace should not be taken as weakness.