An 18-year-old Pakistani woman “miraculously survived” after being shot and thrown into a canal by her father for marrying against the family’s wishes, police said on Saturday, describing the latest in a series of such attacks on women in the Muslim-majority country.
The assault on Wednesday came days after a 25-year-old woman was beaten and stoned to death by her family for marrying a man they did not approve of, one of hundreds of so-called “honor killings” carried out every year in Pakistan against women accused of bringing shame to their conservative families through sexual transgressions.
Police officer Ali Akbar said the teenager’s father, with help from some of his close relatives, attacked her in Hafizabad.