Pakistani couple murdered by relatives
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A pregnant woman and her husband have been abducted and shot dead by relatives who disapproved of their marriage, police said yesterday, the latest in a surge of reported “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. The bodies were discovered after they washed up in a canal. Waris said Aqsa Bibi, aged 22, and Shakeel Ahmed, 26, both worked at a local pharmacy and had got married in a court ceremony four years earlier.
Aqsa was expecting a child, though 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, identified as Muhammad Moavia, who had recently returned from abroad, assembled a group of relatives to kidnap the couple.
They then shot them both in the head and dumped their bodies in the canal.
The accused remain at large, said Waris, adding that raids are underway.
Muhammad Azhar, another police official, confirmed the incident.
It was the latest in a string of “honour” killings, which are thought to claim around 1,000 lives every year in Pakistan.
Two weeks ago, 16 year-old Zeenat Bibi was killed in Lahore by her mother for marrying a man of her own choice — a case that sparked condemnation throughout the country.
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