Son shoots mum in 'honour killing'
From correspondents in Islamabad
July 28, 2002
A 35-YEAR-OLD Pakistani widow was shot dead by her son carrying out an "honour killing" to end her affair with a man from her village, the official APP news agency reported today.
Widow Mehr Bibi had developed "illicit relations" with a man identified as Ramzan at a village near the city of Lahore, 250km south-east of here, APP said.
"On Saturday night, when her son, Muhammad Razaaq, found his mother absent from home, he along with two other persons went to the house of Ramzan where they found Mehr Bibi and Ramzan in (an) objectionable position... they opened fire on them," APP said.
The news agency said the victim's relatives had warned her to "mend her ways" and stay away from her lover but "she did not care".
The so-called 'honour' killings are widespread in Pakistan and accounted for the deaths of 40 women in Punjab province in the first half this year, according to human rights activists.
The term refers to punishment killings for women who 'dishonour' their families.
Agence France-Presse
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