KABUL: An angry mob lynched a young Afghan couple who had eloped together after storming a police station where they were being held for "immoral acts", officials said on Sunday, the latest so-called honour killing in the country.
Fateha, an 18-year-old woman who had been forced to marry a man against her wishes, was arrested on Saturday along with her lover Hedayatullah, 19, in the Wama district of the remote eastern province of Nuristan. "The woman’s family believed she had damaged their honour. Together with armed villagers they attacked the police station, took the girl and boy outside and shot them in front of the public," provincial governor Hafiz Abdul Qayyom said.
Abdul Ghafoor Nuristani, a provincial official, accused the police of failing to protect the couple. But Qayyom said three policemen were wounded in the incident, into which the government had launched an investigation. So-called "honour killings" are not uncommon in conservative Afghanistan and relations between men and women outside marriage are strictly controlled.
Prosecutors will in coming week ask court in southern city Avignon to sentence 51 men
Both executives have not discussed specific measures to keep TikTok running in United States
Economy has improved somewhat over past few months, and reason for this is IMF programme, says Humayun
Bessent, chief executive officer of Key Square Group, has called for extension of tax cuts from Trump’s first term
Chief of Malaysian Royal Air Force, who is of Pakistani origin, paid visit to his native Beir, Haripur, on Saturday
Local and official sources say first explosion took place in Irab area in jurisdiction of Loy Mamond Police Station
