Thu May 23, 2013
Breaking News

News Detail

Pakistan court separates Afghan elopers

imageeee

 PESHAWAR: A Pakistani judge on Tuesday separated a runaway Afghan couple who married for love after a disabled man appeared in court purporting to be the woman’s first husband.

It was an about turn for the judge, who last week appeared to accept that Mariyam and Hewad married legitimately by ordering that they be protected and given accommodation together in Pakistan’s northwestern city of Peshawar.
Mariyam and Hewad, both 22, said they fled Kabul last month to wed in the leafy town of Abbottabad in northwest Pakistan, where US troops found and killed Osama bin Laden in May 2011.
The woman said her parents wanted her to marry her dead sister’s husband and that if she is sent back to Afghanistan she would probably be murdered for marrying someone of her own choice.
On Tuesday, her mother and brother appeared in court with the 48-year-old man in a wheel chair claiming he was her real husband.
Her mother Raazia, 65, told AFP that Mariyam had consented to the match and married him six and a half years ago. Two years later, the man had a stroke and has been left partially paralysed, she said.
“The court should hand over the girl to us, we will not kill her,” Raazia said.
Judge Dost Muhammad Khan referred the matter to a family court, ordering Mariyam into a women’s shelter and sending Hewad for questioning.
The case should be decided “within 40 days”, said Khan, who intervened personally after media reports said the woman’s life was in danger.
Hewad, who like many Afghans goes by one name, also told AFP last week that he faced serious threats from Mariyam’s family.
“I am sure they can harm me here and if we are sent back to Afghanistan, they will simply shoot us,” he said.
Despite progress in recent years and improved legal protection, women suffer chronic rights abuses in both Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Earlier this month a video emerged of the public execution of a woman accused of adultery in Afghanistan, who was shot dead as dozens of men cheered.
Activists fear that women’s rights in Afghanistan are under particular threat as Nato troops prepare to leave in 2014 and Kabul seeks peace with the Taliban, who brutally repressed women during their 1996-2001 rule. (AFP)

Highlights

  • imges Sharif seeks improved relations with Kabul

    KABUL: Following his landslide victory in Pakistan’s parliamentary elections, Mian Nawaz Sharif on Sunday promised efforts at improving Islamabad-Kabul relations. In recent weeks, ties between....
    READ MORE

  • imges Taliban free 4 of 8 Turkish engineers

    KABUL: The Taliban have freed four of the Turkish engineers they had kidnapped last month in central Logar province, Afghan and Turkish officials said on Sunday. On April 21, the Taliban kidnapp....
    READ MORE

  • imges MPs suggest rethink on Pakistan policy

    KABUL: Members of the Meshrano Jirga -- or upper house of the parliament -- on Sunday said the incoming Pakistan government would not help Afghanistan and asked the Karzai administration to revie....
    READ MORE

  • imges Karzai hopes new Pak govt to help fight terror

    KABUL: President Hamid Karzai on Sunday telephoned Pakistan Muslim League (PML-N) chief Mian Nawaz Sharif and congratulated him his “clear victory” in the elections. Karzai described Sharifâ....
    READ MORE

  • imges Iranian guards’ fire being probed: Musazai

    KABUL: The Foreign Ministry said it was dispatching a delegation to Iran on Sunday to investigate reported casualties among Afghans at the hands of Iranian guards near the shared border. At leas....
    READ MORE

  • imges Balochs vow to resist aggression

    KABUL: The Council of Baloch Elders of Afghanistan on Sunday voiced their support for the government in guarding the country's borders against Pakistani intrusions. At a meeting with President H....
    READ MORE

  • imges Hundreds rally against Pakistan, Iran

    FARAH CITY: Hundreds of people, mostly former jihadi leaders, on Sunday rallied against Pakistan and Iran, accusing the neighbouring countries of killing and torturing innocent Afghans. Nearly 5....
    READ MORE

  • imges Abducted MDC workers shifted to Tirah

    JALALABAD: The eleven employees of a mine-clearing organisation, who were abducted from the Achin district of Nangarhar province, have been taken to Pakistan’s northwestern Tirah Valley, offici....
    READ MORE

Previous 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 Next

Currency

As on
  • 1 USD
  • 1000 NR
  • 1000 PK
  • 1 GBP

Have Your Say...

    • Clippings


    Audio / Videos

    • Promo

      Promo of Afghanistan Times by Basharjar Production


      Play Video
    MORE VIDEOS
    Iran and blame the victim game

     
    Tehran is continuously interfering in Afghanistan and pressurizing Kabul under one pretext or the other.  Iran’s meddling into our internal affairs while giving it name of concern as Tehran did it recently when its ambassa...

    Read More...
    Polling

    Will Taliban agree on peace plan?

    Dont know
    Yes
    May be
    No

    Advertisements

    Copyright © 2012 Afghanistan Times | All Rights Reserved.              Counter :: 39381

    Find us on:

    Developed by   Technology Consultants