Family Uses Dinner to Set Up Young Couple for Honor Killing

The Daily Times of Pakistan has the gruesome details of this latest so-called honor killing:

The family of a young woman allegedly killed her and her husband in the name of “honour” after inviting the couple to have dinner at a house in Yakki Gate police precincts.

Victims Shafiq Ahmed and Saba got married two months ago against the wishes of Saba’s family. Muhammad Adil, Shafiq’s cousin, told Daily Times Saba’s family had invited the couple to dinner at their house two days ago. He said Shafiq had initially refused, but had agreed to go after Saba’s mother, Kausar, claimed he was displaying cowardice by not coming to her house.

Adil said that his uncle, Malik Riaz, suspecting ulterior motives, accompanied the young couple to the dinner. He said that Riaz claimed that Kausar and all three of Saba’s brothers – Zeeshan, Ahsan and Abbas – welcomed them and had a perfectly pleasant dinner. However, he said, Zeeshan and Kausar convinced his uncle to leave early, claiming they would take the couple home in another half-an-hour. He said Ahsan accompanied Riaz to his house.

Pool of blood: According to Adil, Riaz tried to phone the couple after half-an-hour but their mobile phones were not being attended. He said his uncle then tried to contact Zeeshan and Ahsan, but those calls also went unheeded. He said Riaz, accompanied by a friend, went back to the house but found it locked from the outside. He said they tried to call Shafiq again, and heard his phone ringing from inside the house. Convinced that something had happened, he said Riaz broke into the house and found the bodies of the couple lying in a pool of blood next to half-eaten food.

Read it all here.