IRAM ASIM | The Seattle Times

November 8, 2017 at 7:19 am

Woman charged with murder warned against forced marriage VIEW

BASTI LASHARI, Pakistan (AP) — Aasia Bibi had warned her parents time and again that if they forced her to marry her cousin, a man...

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November 8, 2017 at 2:53 am

Pakistani police arrest aunt in family poisoning case

BASTI LASHARI, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani police said Wednesday they arrested a woman for allegedly plotting with her newly married niece to poison the young...

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In this Monday, Oct. 30, 2017 photo, 21-year-old Aasia Bibi and her boyfriend, Shahid Lashari, are presented to journalists, at police station in Muzaffargarh in Pakistan. Pakistani police arrested Bibi, a newly married woman, who was married against her will in September, on murder charges after she allegedly poisoned her husband’s milk and it inadvertently killed 17 other people in a remote village. (AP Photo/Iram Asim) ISL105 ISL105

October 31, 2017 at 11:56 pm

Pakistani bride accused of killing 17 in botched plot to poison husband

MULTAN, Pakistan — Pakistani police arrested a newly married woman on murder charges after she allegedly poisoned her husband's milk and it inadvertently killed 17...

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July 27, 2017 at 12:14 am

Pakistan arrests head of village council over girl’s rape

RAJA PUR, Pakistan (AP) — Police on Thursday arrested the head of a village council in central Pakistan for allegedly sanctioning the rape of a...

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June 24, 2017 at 9:55 pm

Over 150 dead as overturned fuel truck explodes in Pakistan VIEW

BAHAWALPUR, Pakistan (AP) — Alerted by an announcement over a mosque's loudspeaker that an overturned tanker truck had sprung a leak, scores of villagers raced...

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