Pakistanis’ love gets throats cut

A YOUNG COUPLE in Pakistan were tied up and had their throats slit with scythes after they married for love, police said Saturday.

The 17-year-old girl and 31-year-old man married on June 18 without the consent of their families in eastern Pakistan’s Punjabi village of Satrah, police said.

The girl’s mother and father lured the couple home late on Thursday with the promise that their marriage would receive a family blessing, said local police official Rana Zashid, who said the woman’s father cut their throats.

Police arrested the family, who said they had been embarrassed by the marriage of their daughter to a man from a less important tribe. Cultural traditions in many areas of Pakistan mean that killing a woman whose behavior is seen as immodest is widely accepted.