[Tolo News] The family of a woman stabbed to death by her husband in western Herat...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns...
province on Friday has called for him to be punished with the same death that he dealt his wife.
The man, Anwar, who has been tossed in the clink
Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up!
at Herat police headquarters, killed his wife, Kolsoom, allegedly because he was angry that she worked at an office for an NGO, according to police officials.
"Preliminary investigations show that Kolsoom was working in a private company. There was a verbal fight between the woman and her husband, and following that the woman was killed by her husband using a knife," said Herat police front man Col. Noorkhan Nikzad.
However,
some people are alive only because it's illegal to kill them...
Kolsoom's family claim that Anwar killed her after she hid their seven-year-old daughter at Kolsoom father's house because he was a drug addict who wanted to sell the daughter for money.
Kolsoom, 30, was stabbed at least eight times in front of her mother at her parent's house. She was rushed to Herat local hospital but died a short time later because of the seriousness of the wounds.
Kolsoom's family including her only daughter called for Anwar to receive the highest punishment under the law.
"We want that just as he killed my mother by cutting her into pieces with a knife, so he should be cut into pieces with a knife," the daughter told TOLOnews.
"We want the government to sentence this man to punishment according to Islamic law," said Ghulam Sarwar, Kolsoom's brother.
Under Sharia law, murder is punishable by death unless the family of the victim forgives the killer.
Kolsoom's mother said she was not able to prevent the incident from happening, even though it happened in front of her.
"My daughter was killed. My daughter is gone. This girl's body was in pieces. She was killed by her husband. We want a fair outcome," she told TOLOnews.
Herat police officials said the case was handed over to the judicial authorities after the husband was cooled for a few years
I ain't sayin' nuttin' widdout me mout'piece!