'Please Save Me': Pakistani 'Brides' Plead For Help From China Amid Trafficking Claims
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| July 14, 2019 11:48 GMT | Daud Khattak
'Please Save Me': Pakistani 'Brides' Plead For Help From China Amid Trafficking Claims July 14, 2019 11:48 GMT By Daud Khattak Carl Schreck Rimsha, a Pakistan Christian woman, moved to China with a man she met through a marriage agency. LAHORE,
Pakistan -- The wedding picture shows Rimsha in a white bridal gown and tiara posing with her new Chinese husband in front of a curved staircase, their thumbs and forefingers joined in the shape of a heart. The caption reads, "Endless love." The marriage of the 27-year-old Pakistani Christian and her Chinese suitor here in Lahore last fall was...
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Pakistani bride kills 17 people with poison milk in effort to escape arranged marriage, police say
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| 10-02-2017 | Derek Hawkins
Arranged marriages are a standard practice in Pakistan, and there’s no shortage of stories about the extreme steps some Pakistani women will take to escape them and marry men of their choosing. But
few go as far as Aasia Bibi is alleged to have gone. According to Pakistani authorities, the 21-year-old woman tried to slip poison into her new husband’s milk and inadvertently killed 17 of his family members in the process. Bibi, who is charged with murder, appeared in court Tuesday in the northeastern city of Muzaffargarh, where she told reporters that her parents had forced her in September to marry a relative, the Associated Press and...
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Pakistani Bride Kills 17 in Botched Plot to Kill Husband
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| NOVEMBER 1, 2017
Pakistani police say they have arrested a newly married woman on murder charges after she poisoned her husband’s milk and it inadvertently killed 17 other people. District
police chief Sohail Habib Tajak said Wednesday a judge has allowed police to question the woman for two weeks. Tajak says the woman, who was not identified, was married against her will in September.
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