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Afghanistan/South Asia
Pakistani girl begs Musharraf’s protection from honour killing
2005-09-21
KARACHI - 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 much as it does everywhere else in Pakland. “I want President Musharraf and human rights organisations to take up my case,” she told Reuters from her hiding place on the marshes outside Daharki town, about 550 km (340 miles) north of Karachi.

“Although my husband is in jail his relatives have vowed to kill me,” Lakhmira said. Lakhmira was accused of having an affair with a man she says she has never seen. “Even though my husband is in jail for trying to cut my honker off, 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.
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