Monday, February 22, 2016

Oscar nominated film forces Pakistan to confront 'honour killings’

Saba Qaiser’s father put his hand on the Koran and swore that he would not harm her if she came home so that her new husband could collect her “with honour”.

The 19-year-old had just eloped but reluctantly agreed, trusting his word. Instead, her father and uncle drove her to a riverbank, beat her and put a pistol to her forehead.

She titled her head at the last minute and the bullet raked through her face from eye to lips, knocking her unconscious. The two men stuffed her limp body into a gunny bag and threw it into the river, then drove off, confident that they had restored the family’s “good name”.

 But remarkably, Saba did not end up as another of the largely forgotten dead in Pakistan’s “honour killing” epidemic. She came round in the water, hauled herself ashore and found rescuers. Full story...

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