Court wedding: Runaway couple asks for protection
Their families were against their union.
DEHARKI:
A couple held a conference at Deharki Press Club. Fatima Ali, from Khairpur, and Bugti from Dera Allah Yar had a court wedding in Sadiqabad. Ali told journalists that their families were against their union and an order for their death has been given according to jirga law. The couple has appealed to the authorities to grant them asylum.
Published in The Express Tribune, July 4th, 2011.
A couple held a conference at Deharki Press Club. Fatima Ali, from Khairpur, and Bugti from Dera Allah Yar had a court wedding in Sadiqabad. Ali told journalists that their families were against their union and an order for their death has been given according to jirga law. The couple has appealed to the authorities to grant them asylum.
Published in The Express Tribune, July 4th, 2011.