Pregnant Woman And Husband Found Washed Up In Canal After Honour Killing In Pakistan

PM of Pakistan wants to eradicate the "evil" of honour killing but no legislation has been tabled. See, it doesn't matter where you live, politicians are scum. Story out of Islamabad, Pakistan:

A pregnant woman and her husband were abducted and shot dead by relatives who disapproved of their marriage, police said on Sunday in the latest in a surge of so-called “honour killings" in Pakistan.

The couple were murdered near the village of Thikriwala in Punjab province last Wednesday, said senior local police official Malik Waris. Their bodies were discovered after they washed up in a canal.

Aqsa Bibi, 22, and Shakeel Ahmed, 26 – who both worked at a local pharmacy – got married in a court ceremony four years ago, Mr Waris said.

Aqsa was expecting a child. It was not immediately clear how many months pregnant she was. Their match enraged Aqsa’s family, who lived in a nearby village.

Matters came to a head when one of her brothers, Muhammad Moavia, who recently returned from abroad assembled a group of relatives to kidnap the couple.

They shot them both in the head and dumped their bodies in the canal.

Prime minister Nawaz Sharif vowed to eradicate the “evil" of honour killings amid publicity for the Oscar-winning film on the subject, A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness.

However, no fresh legislation has yet been tabled. Cont.

Story from - The National
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