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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Asad Mumtaz Rid

‘Her screams echo in my ears’: the trauma of so-called ‘honour killings’ in Pakistan

A man in blue clothes and a woman in a colorful headscarf sit on a bed in a simple room in Pakistan
Mohammad Ramzan and his wife, Nabul. Their daughter Khalida was killed by relatives in Pakistan’s southern Sindh province. Photograph: Asad Mumtaz Rid

Mohammad Ramzan was on the night shift at the cement factory outside Karachi when he answered a phone call from home. His 20-year-old daughter, Khalida Chandio, had been shot dead in their village in Pakistan’s southern Sindh province.

Now back home, with Khalida’s mother, Nabul, at his side, the devastated couple are trying to comprehend what happened. Nabul struggles to hold back tears. She says her daughter had been taken out from their home under the cover of darkness and killed just a few hundred metres away.

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