tuc biscuit said:
No, read it in a newspaper this morning, the girl's uncle was involved and no-one will meet any cosiqeunces for it.
Just picked it up in an Irish newspaper tuc ,thanks. Here's the deal folks:
Young lovers shot dead for Pakistan tribe's honour
THE young couple's screams went unheard as four gunmen dragged them to a field. Two gunshots rang out.
Shazia Hason and husband Mohammed Hason Solangi were executed, each shot in the forehead, last week after tribal elders in this remote southern Pakistani town found them guilty of marrying for love instead of following the custom of arranged marriage.
Mir Hason, the girl's father, has been charged with leading the death squad.
"They had brought dishonour to our tribe," said Chutto Khan, the girl's uncle and another of the accused.
Shazia and Mohammed are the latest victims of honour killing, which costs hundreds of lives each year in Pakistan's tribal region. More than 650 women and six girls were killed, mostly by family, in the first eight months of 2003, according to Pakistan's independent Human Rights Commission.
Shazia, 19, committed the ultimate 'crime' under tribal code when she married a man from a rival tribe. She met 21-year-old taxi driver Mohammed Hason from the Solangi tribe a few months ago on her way to teacher training college. They started meeting secretly but it was difficult to hide the liaison in a small, conservative town and fearing for their lives they fled to Karachi to marry.
They returned to Sanghar after the bride's father complained to police that Mohammed Hason had abducted his daughter. He claimed she was already engaged to another man.
The bride's father met Khaskheli tribesmen at his house and they decided the couple must die.
On October 7 Mr Hason and other tribesmen allegedly abducted the couple, who were going to the police station for protection. The next day their bodies were found in the field.
"The boy was badly tortured before he was shot dead," said police investigator Zahid Ahmed. "His legs and arms were broken."
Shazia's mother, suspected of helping her daughter elope, had her head shaved as punishment.
While Mr Hason and Mr Khan are under arrest, two other men wanted over the murders have fled.
The killings are against the law but traditional attitudes still prevail in conservative rural areas. Police and the judiciary often fail to prosecute the killers and Pakistani law allows criminal prosecution only if a victim's family wants to pursue it. They commonly do not in honour killings.
Often an accused woman has no chance to explain or defend herself. Of this year's killings, husbands were blamed for 247, brothers 112, fathers 54, sons 25 and uncles two. In other cases the killer was not identified.
"The number of women who fall victim to honour killings is definitely much higher than the reported cases, but it is hard to record each case, especially when you don't have enough resources," said Zia Awan of Lawyers for Human Rights and Legal Aid. (© The Times, London)
Zahid Hussain
in Sanghar
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