{"id":42196,"date":"2018-01-05T20:45:37","date_gmt":"2018-01-05T15:45:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=42196"},"modified":"2018-01-05T20:45:37","modified_gmt":"2018-01-05T15:45:37","slug":"relative-guns-down-girl-her-fiancee-for-speaking-before-wedding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=42196","title":{"rendered":"Relative guns down girl, her fianc\u00e9e for speaking before wedding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Karachi, Jan. 5 (TNS):<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0A girl and her fianc\u00e9 \u00a0were gunned down, allegedly by the girl&#8217;s maternal uncle after spotting them chatting in Pakistan&#8217;s Sindh province, in the latest case of honour killing, a media report said.<\/p>\n<p>The girl, identified as Nazeeran, was speaking with her husband-to-be Shahid in Nayi Wahi village in the suburbs of Ghotki town when her uncle spotted them.<\/p>\n<p>The uncle opened fire on them out of anger.<\/p>\n<p>According to police, the victims were each other&#8217;s cousins and the incident was a case of &#8216;honour killing&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Two suspects, both of whom happen to be the girl&#8217;s uncles, have been arrested so far.<\/p>\n<p>Honour killings are pandemic in Pakistan, and women are its predominant victims.<\/p>\n<p>An angry Pakistani youth allegedly shot dead his sister and her husband in Rawalpindi last month for marrying without the family&#8217;s consent.<\/p>\n<p>In November, a newly-wed couple in Sindh province who married without the consent of their elders were killed allegedly on the orders of a jirga (village elders).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karachi, Jan. 5 (TNS):\u00a0\u00a0A girl and her fianc\u00e9 \u00a0were gunned down, allegedly by the girl&#8217;s maternal uncle after spotting them chatting in Pakistan&#8217;s Sindh province, in the latest case of honour killing, a media report said. The girl, identified as Nazeeran, was speaking with her husband-to-be Shahid in Nayi Wahi village in the suburbs of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42197,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,23],"tags":[145,589],"class_list":["post-42196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-karachi","category-national","tag-karachi","tag-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42196"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42198,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42196\/revisions\/42198"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/42197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}