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An appeals court in Pakistan has thrown out a case involving a Norwegian-Pakistani man suspected of killing his daughter because she allegedly had dishonoured the family. Rahila Iqbal's father, her maternal grandfather and a man driving the car had been charged and imprisoned after the June 1 car accident. Now all three men have been released from prison, and Azhar Iqbal hopes to be home [in Norway] by the end of December. "Now he wants to travel home to his family," his attorney, Abid Raja, told Aftenposten.no. There was no immediate word on why the appeals court threw out the case. The death of Rahila Iqbal sparked headlines last summer, after her husband alleged she'd been killed because she hadn't married the man her family had selected for her. |