 A man was found guilty at a London court Tuesday of the Islamic âhonour killingâ of a man who had a secret relationship with his sister. Afghan-born Ahmed Bashir, 21, was hacked to death after 20-year-old Nighat Afsarâs family found out about their relationship, which they deemed an insult to their âhonourâ as Muslims. Her brother Waseem Afsar and Nisar Khan chased Bashir into a garden and inflicted 40 stab wounds, mainly to the groin, with a scimitar sword and a 10-inch knife. As he tried to intervene, Bashirâs friend Abdul Ebrahimkhail, 24, was also wounded in the July 1996 attack in Hounslow, west London, a suburb with a high South Asian population near the cityâs main Heathrow airport. |