...mindless ferocity in a turban...officials in the northern province of Faryab.
| Surely it would not have been better in the presence of her husband! Or her brother, either... |
...a backwoods district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa distinguished by being even more rustic than is the norm among the local Pashtuns....
district of Faryab province for engaging in an affair, according to local sources.
According to Mohammad Ismail Furqani, Taliban’s Counter-Crimes director of the Faryab Chief of Police, the "honor killing" event occurred on Monday night, 22nd of August in the Kohistan district of Faryab province as the killer caught his sister and the man "red-handed", having sex.
According to the Faryab police, the woman’s brother used a Kalashnikov to shoot both of the victims as they were having consensual sex. They were both married, but not to each other.
The man, who was shot, according to local sources in the province of Faryab, was already married to two other women, had 11 children, and had an affair with another married woman.
The murderer has turned himself into the police in Faryab, according to Taliban official Furqani, and is currently in their custody.
More suicides, homicides, murders, and honor killings have occurred recently as a result of an increase in domestic violence, personal enmity, family blood feuds, and illicit relationships.