A 15-year old Pakistani girl living in fear of becoming an honour killing victim issued a plea on Tuesday for President Pervez Musharraf to protect her from her husband’s relatives.
Lakhmira Shar’s husband tried to cut off her nose after attempting to take her before a tribal council to be declared an adulteress in a district of Southern Sindh province, where the practice of honour killing persists. “Although my husband is in jail his relatives have vowed to kill me,” Lakhmira said.
“I want President Musharraf and human rights organisations to take up my case,” she was reported to have told Reuters from her hiding place on the marshes outside Daharki town, about 550 km north of Karachi.
Lakhmira was accused of having an affair with a man she says she has never seen. “Even though my husband is in jail, he and his relatives are insisting I should go before a tribal council headed by the sardar. If I do that, either I will be killed or they will sell me off,” she said.
Hundreds of people, mostly women, die each year in “honour killings” in Pakistan – killed on suspicion of having affairs outside of marriage or marrying without their family’s consent.
Lakhmira Shar’s husband tried to cut off her nose after attempting to take her before a tribal council to be declared an adulteress in a district of Southern Sindh province, where the practice of honour killing persists. “Although my husband is in jail his relatives have vowed to kill me,” Lakhmira said.
“I want President Musharraf and human rights organisations to take up my case,” she was reported to have told Reuters from her hiding place on the marshes outside Daharki town, about 550 km north of Karachi.
Lakhmira was accused of having an affair with a man she says she has never seen. “Even though my husband is in jail, he and his relatives are insisting I should go before a tribal council headed by the sardar. If I do that, either I will be killed or they will sell me off,” she said.
Hundreds of people, mostly women, die each year in “honour killings” in Pakistan – killed on suspicion of having affairs outside of marriage or marrying without their family’s consent.
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