10-Year-Old Boy Found Guilty Of ‘Affair’ With 30-year-old Married Woman

A tribal court in southern Pakistan has convicted a 10-year-old boy of having an affair with a married woman in her late 30s and ordered him to pay a fine of around USD 7,000, police said.
The incident occurred in the remote village of Bakhrani in Sindh province, 510 kilometres (320 miles) north of Karachi.
“The 10-year-old was caught having an extramarital affair with a lady from another tribe, which created bad blood between the two tribes,” a local police official requesting anonymity said.
“The incident was later taken to a jirga (tribal court) which ordered the boy’s family to pay a fine of Rs700,000 ($7,000) to the aggrieved side.
“The boy’s family paid Rs50,000 ($500) up front and undertook to pay off the remaining amount within three months,” he added.
The chief police officer of the district, Umar Tufail, confirmed the incident but said the tribal court’s decision was illegal and was under investigation.
“It has came to our knowledge that a jirga was held to solve a dispute regarding an extramarital affair. We are looking into the incident as jirgas are illegal,” he said.