Pakistani father cuts the throats of daughter and man she married for love
A young couple in Pakistan have been tied up and had their throats slit with scythes after they married for love. The girl, 17, and the 31-year-old man married on June 18 without the consent of their families in the eastern Punjabi village of Satrah.
A young couple in Pakistan have been tied up and had their throats slit with scythes after they married for love.
The girl, 17, and the 31-year-old man married on June 18 without the consent of their families in the eastern Punjabi village of Satrah.
The girl's mother and father lured the couple home late on Thursday with the promise that their marriage would receive a family blessing, local police official Rana Zashid said.
"When the couple reached there, they tied them with ropes," he said. "The girl's father cut their throats."
Police arrested the family, who said they had been embarrassed by the marriage of their daughter, Muafia Hussein, to a man from a less important tribe.
Cultural traditions in many areas of Pakistan mean that killing a woman whose behaviour is seen as immodest is widely accepted.
So-called immodest behaviour that sparked recent killings included singing, looking out of the window and talking to a man who was not a relative.