The residents of Bar Qambar Khel, an area of the Khyber tribal district, Tirah take law into their own hands and punished drug dealers in their own way. These Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (KPK) residents enacted vengeance in an old-fashioned way by shaving their heads, blackening their faces, and then parading them on donkeys.<\/p>\n
The purpose of this public display was to make an ‘example’ out of the drug dealers and demonstrate what shall happen to those who peddle drugs.<\/p>\n
According to Express Tribune<\/a>, these two men were dealing and moving crystal meth, commonly called ice, in the Bar Qambar Khel area.<\/p>\n ALSO READ<\/p>\n Baloch Women Burn Down Drug Dens, Adopt Zero Tolerance Policy over Drugs<\/a><\/p>\n Despite the KP-FATA merger, traditional justice still prevails in the tribal areas. When the drug dealers, Qudrat and Wadan Khan were caught they were made to appear before the Aman Committee. Despite the presence of police, they let the public jury prosecute the accused.<\/p>\n Once found guilty by the tribal jury, they were punished via public humiliation. A local elder told the news outlet that;<\/p>\n \u201cThe two didn\u2019t appear before the committee, neither confessed to their crime of selling drugs. So they were arrested after repeated warnings,\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n WATCH: With blackened faces, drug peddlers paraded on donkeys in K-P pic.twitter.com\/P6KOrrw76g<\/a><\/p>\n — The Express Tribune (@etribune) February 24, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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