Police foil honour killing bid in Karachi, recover abducted woman

KARACHI: Police on Tuesday foiled an honour killing bid by recovering an abducted women and arresting her relatives in Karachi.

According to police, A 22-year old woman whose relatives kidnapped her for marrying a man of her choice was recovered from Super Highway area of the city after the law enforcement agency arrested her abductors in a raid.

“I and my husband were sleeping when these people (relatives) knocked our door and asked us to open the door, we immediately phoned police but they broke in and took me away,” the victim told ARY News.

The 22-year-old said that her relatives were planning to kill her for contracting a love marriage.

“She hid a small cellphone in her purse and telephoned us that she was kidnapped and the abductors, her relatives, have taken him to flat in Patel Para area and are now planning to take her to Bahawlpur, we traced her location through her phone and stopped the kidnappers’ car on Super Highway to recover her,” a police officer from Super Highway police station told ARY News.

According to some estimates, some 500 women are killed every year in Pakistan at the hands of relatives over perceived damage to family honour. Most of the honour killing victims are those who contract love marriages.