Posted on 06/30/2009 5:08:40 AM PDT by Schnucki
Dozens of relatives of a Pakistani teenager who eloped against her parents' wishes shot her dead on Monday in a raid on her new home which also left her husband and in-laws dead, police said.
Relatives dressed in police uniforms stormed the bridegroom's house in the district of Charsadda, in North West Frontier Province.
"The assailants took the bridegroom out while some of the attackers climbed the wall and entered the house. They killed the bride, the mother and sister of the bridegroom," said Saleem Jan, a police official for the Charsadda district.
"They beat them first and then shot them dead," he told AFP news agency.
The groom's father was also killed, another police official told AFP.
Police said the bride, who was 18 or 19 years old, came from the deeply conservative Mardan district next to Charsadda. She had run away and married her boyfriend, who was around 30, without telling her parents.
"Both the girl and man married some weeks ago," Misal Khan, the bridegroom's uncle, told reporters at the scene.
Police said the main suspects were two uncles and a cousin.
Human rights groups have strongly condemned the practice of honour killings in Pakistan, which claim the lives of hundreds of women each year.
Amnesty International says many killings are unreported and in almost all cases the perpetrators, who are often close family members, go unpunished.
In 2005, Pervez Musharraf introduced the death penalty for honour killings.
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There is NO honor in Pakistan, it appears! They are LUNATICS! And for 12 years now, with nukes.
What a religion!
Those Amish again.
And we all know how powerful and influential they are................
This happens in 2009... We may have our imperfections here, but I have to ask: When exactly is the rest of the world going to catch up with US?
And to think Obama believes you can just “talk” with these types of people to solve the world’s problems.
How about “honor killing” those who would “wipe out” the US and our friends.
MUZZIES! “Religion of Peace” is a CULT OF DEATH!
These Muslim folks sure think a lot of themselves.
They’re like gang members. “Don’t dis me and my Homies, Ese!”
Dozens of relatives of a Pakistani teenager who eloped against her parents’ wishes shot her dead on Monday in a raid on her new home which also left her husband and in-laws dead, police said.
The Religion of Peace at its best.......
The perps were “deeply conservative.”
“I do notta think that word means what you think it means” (from the Princess Bride)
Stone age cretins! These are the folks our great leader stated he would “side with.”
Yep and we have our very own one in the White House.
“What happens in paukistahn stays in paukistahn.”
ROT in hell scumbags right along with our mooslim wannabe pres
They got the whole shotgun wedding thing backassward.
Here in America, your punishment for marriage is having your in-laws visit, stay for dinner, then ask to borrow money.
Never, actually. That's why, in the spirit of economic and social justice, Obama is slowing us down to their pace. It's those pesky constitutional restraints that are getting in the way of a good, universal, kum-by-ya moment
What he needs is a good impromptu Costa Rican vacation.
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