LAHORE  - Tears were rolling down from the cheeks of a 20-year-old widow on Wednesday, as she wailed beside the coffin of her 24-year-old husband that was brought to Lahore from Faisalabad in search of justice to ‘honour killers’.

About three dozen of her in-laws accompanied Ayesha from Shahkot area of Faisalabad to Lahore Press Club in a bid to seek justice. Khawar, a labourer, was found murdered from a canal near Gujranwala few months after his marriage with Ayesha.
“My cousins and other relatives had threatened to kill my husband, if I would stay in the wedlock. Now, they have snatched away my husband. I am left to mourn for life,” Ayesha told the media men.

Earlier, a district court allowed Ayesha to go with Khawar in the case of kidnapping registered by her parents, though she eloped with him for marriage.
A couple of weeks ago, his body was found from a canal near Islampura town of Gujranwala, the widow said, adding that the police registered a murder case against unidentified killers but no arrest was made.

She alleged that her relatives abducted her husband when he was going to see some relatives in Pind Wari Kalan. Apparently, it seemed that the killers murdered the man somewhere else and fled after throwing his body into the canal, another relative said.
According to him, sub-inspector Arshad Klayer, currently posted at police training centre of Farooqabad, along with his accomplices including Arif Klayer, Saghir Klayer, and Jalal Din had abducted Khawar and killed the youth mercilessly.

“The killers are roaming in the area but the police are unwilling to arrest them,” he added.

Despite repeated attempts on his mobile phone, the Gujranwala Regional Police Officer (RPO) could not be reached.

“We will commit suicide if the killers of my son are not punished,” said the deceased’s mother who was standing next to her daughter-in-law.
She is one of countless mothers to suffer the misery of ‘honour killings’.