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November 28, 2005
Pakistan: After Muslim Honour Killing - Mutilation
A disturbing news item from Dawn. The custom of so-called honour killing seems to belong in a bygone age, yet still it is widely practiced. This particular case appears to be either an honour killing by vile and barbaric means, or a deliberate attempt to mutilate.
Shamin Mai is in a critical condition in the Bahawal Victoria Hospital in Bahawalpur, a province of Pakistan in the Punjab, adjoining he Indian border.
Shamin Mai has had both of her legs chopped off. Her brother Bashir and her uncle Bilal have been arrested for the atrocity. Four others who assisted in the assault have so far avoided arrest.
And what motivated this act of barbarity? Shamin Mai, instead of following the course expected of a girl in these regions, of having a marriage arranged for her, had contracted a marriage on her own free will, in Mauza Naseerabad.
Among the four assailants still at large one, Faiz Rasool, is a union councillor.
Posted by Giraldus Cambrensis at November 28, 2005 2:07 PM
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