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The Federal Shariat Court (FSC) has ruled that Swara is an un-Islamic practice.
The habit of giving away a juvenile girl to resolve conflicts was against Islamic injunctions, according to a three-judge bench led by FSC Chief Justice Noor Mohammad Meskenzai.
The bench, hearing a plea brought by Sakeena Bibi, found that Ulema had reached a consensus that Vani, or Swara, was contrary to Islamic principles.
Swara is a tradition in which girls, typically minors, are given in marriage or servitude to an offended family as a kind of recompense to settle conflicts, which frequently result in murder.
It is a type of arranged or forced child marriage that occurs as a result of a penalty imposed by a tribal elders’ council known as the jirga.
