SLAMABAD (AFP) - A Pakistani man chopped off his teenage wife's nose and lips in a furious marital row allegedly over the amount of time she spent with her parents, officials said on Monday.
The horrifying case underscores brutal violence suffered by women in Pakistan, where a domestic violence bill lapsed in 2009 after being held up in the Senate due to objections from religious parties.
Ghulam Qadir, 22, who is understood to have had a turbulent relationship with 18-year-old Salma, hacked into her face with a knife on Saturday in the remote village of Karkana 475km south-west of Islamabad.
'Qadir chopped off the nose and lips of wife Salma on Saturday morning and fled,' said Mr Nadir Khan, an administration official in Musa Khel district, part of violence-torn Baluchistan province, which borders Afghanistan and Iran. Source: http://www.straitstimes.com
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