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Peshawar: Police in Pakistan are investigating the killing of an 18-year old woman after villager elders called for her death because she had appeared in a picture on social media, police said on Monday, the latest victim of a so-called honour killing...
Police said the woman had been killed after a council of elders, known as a jirga, had ordered that she and a friend, who also appeared in the picture, be killed..
Some relatives of the dead woman were among the suspects, police said...
Every year, hundreds of women in Pakistan are victims of honour killings, carried out by relatives professing to be acting in defence of a familys honour, rights group say, often in deeply conservative rural areas...
The second woman had been returned to her family after a judge investigated her safety, he said.. Public images of women are considered taboo in the area, Khan said.. Reuters was not able to immediately reach the womens families or elders involved in the gathering by telephone for comment...
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27, Nov, 23Police said the woman had been killed after a council of elders, known as a jirga, had ordered that she and a friend, who also appeared in the picture, be killed.