[gatagato]

• Victims claim they were falsely accused of stealing electrical wire and phones
• They say police tortured them for days before finally hacking their hands off
• Police deny the claims, saying the men inflicted the wounds on themselves

Pakistani police chopped off the left hands of two men accused of theft after they refused to confess to their alleged crimes, the victims claimed today.
Ghulam Mustafa, 38, and Liaquat Ali, 42, accused police in Bahawalpur, Punjab, of hacking off their hands with a large butcher's knife on Friday.
'Four or five policemen held me down and cut my hand. I fainted from the pain,' Mustafa said told Reuters from his hospital bed.

'Liaquat and I were arrested eight days ago after people falsely accused us of stealing and handed us over to the police who beat us and tortured us.
'Then on Friday, they did this.'

Police disputed their version of the story, telling Reuters the men had cut their own hands with razor blades in a suicide attempt. It was not immediately clear how they could cut their hands off.
Medics said the men had been brought to the hospital by two policemen about eight hours after their hands were cut off.
Both men had lost a lot of blood.

'This looks like the work of an axe or similar tool. These are not self-inflicted wounds,' Aamir Ahmed, head of the emergency ward, told Reuters.
He said Mustafa arrived with his hand cut off completely and that one of the policemen carried it in a plastic bag.
Ali's hand had also been cut but was still attached to his arm, the doctor said. 'We have sown Liaquat's hand back on but it will take weeks before we know if he will ever use it again,' Ahmed said.
Mustafa said he and Ali had been arrested after they were accused of stealing electrical wire and mobile phones.

Hacking off thieves' hands is consistent with some tenets of Islamic Sharia law, which often holds sway over constitutional law in parts of rural Pakistan.
It comes days after a pregnant woman was killed by suspected family members for marrying the man she loved, in a story that has drawn condemnation from around the world.
A regional police spokeswoman, Nabeela Ghazanfar, denied the police had chopped off the hands.
'They were caught stealing and were thrashed by locals but finally rescued by police and admitted to hospital,' said Mr Ghazanfar.
'Mustafa's wife and a couple of other females came to meet them at hospital and gave them food, clothes and shaving blades. They used the blades to cut their wrists.'

http://www.dawn.com/news/1110130/sus...-in-bahawalpur
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...cal-goods.html

P.S.: don't ask me who TF is the third dude sharing the bed with one of the two victims, because i have no idea

[winvens]

*smh* The whole situation is just sad.

[Pyramid_Head]

Not a very smart move stealing knowing the punishment.

[Oswald2001]

Just typical moo slums enjoying their self-created self-imposed Dark Ages cesspool existence.

[Kelseecat65]

Sharia law is just a bunch of cavemen excuses for making people's lives miserable. Blast them all back to the dark ages I say.

[fenek]

The whole 'moo slums' thing - I don't think I get it. Or rather, if it literally has something to do with cows and substandard living conditions, than I get it, only in so much as cows go 'moo' and a slum is a diseased, shit place to live. But as a pun...or...I dont know... It literally makes zero sense. I wouldnt even know where to begin.

[Oswald2001]

Originally Posted by fenek ↗

The whole 'moo slums' thing - I don't think...

You've said enough right there.

No need to go on.

[Zambini]

Third guy is probably the patients ass wiper, as you know Muslims can only wipe their asses with the left and shake hands and eat with the right.

Big problem if you shake or touch someone with your left hand

[divreaper]

Originally Posted by Kelseecat65 ↗

Sharia law is just a bunch of cavemen excuses for making people's lives miserable. Blast them all back to the dark ages I say.

They are in the dark ages kels....I reckon blasting them back to when they were mere atoms.....

[pbaj12]

Originally Posted by fenek ↗

The whole 'moo slums' thing - I don't think I get it. Or rather, if it literally has something to do with cows and substandard living conditions, than I get it, only in so much as cows go 'moo' and a slum is a diseased, shit place to live. But as a pun...or...I dont know... It literally makes zero sense. I wouldnt even know where to begin.

I've seen a few people refer to them as that. As soon as I read it, I don't bother to read the rest of their nonsense. I have a hard time taking people serious when they say things like Iraq as eye-rack, eye-ran, could care less, using literally wrong, should/could/would of, they for they're/their, etc..

Anyway, my guess is they don't know how to properly pronounce Muslim and they think they're cute for trying to spell it phonetically.

"Are presdant is one of that them there moo slums.. see how he got the Husane as his middle name. He's from the Irack."