Pakistan's prime minister orders inquiry into how woman could be murdered in presence of police...

Pakistan’s prime minister has ordered an urgent investigation into how a 25-year-old pregnant woman could be bludgeoned to death in public as police looked on.

Officials said Nawaz Sharif was “furious” and had ordered a full report from the police to be presented by the end of Thursday.

While such “honour killings” are far from rare in Pakistan – mostly carried out far from public view - the case of Farzana Parveen has made headlines around the world after she was killed by a mob of male residents outside Lahore’s grand court complex.

No one intervened as the attackers collected bricks from a nearby building site to use as weapons.

Her husband, Muhammad Iqbal, said he had agreed with her father to pay about £500 for the marriage but her father had tried to extort him for money before accusing him of kidnapping. Full story...

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