No ‘honour’: Man’s tongue snipped off

DERA GHAZI KHAN: Three men are accused of snipping off the tongue of a man who had apparently had a romantic relationship with a woman from Rahim Yar Khan. Police said on Monday that three men had accosted Sarfaraz Sultan in Haideria Colony in a suburb of Jampur, Rajanpur. Sultan’s brother Ghulam Hussain told journalists that the three men had beaten him up and cut a piece of his tongue with a knife. He said the men had accused his brother of having a romantic relationship with one of their relatives, a woman from Rahim Yar Khan. Police said Sultan had been taken to the Dera Ghazi Khan teaching hospital’s trauma centre. Doctors there later said his condition was stable.

Published in The Express Tribune, May 24^th, 2016.