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An Afghan couple will be protected under Pakistani law after the Peshawar High Court (PHC) ruled that if they returned to Afghanistan they would be killed.
The PHC ordered police to protect the pair who fled Afghanistan and got married in the Pakistani town Abbottabad against the will of their families, according to Pakistan's Express Tribune.
PHC Chief Justice Dost Muhammad Khan ruled on Monday that the newlywed couple be taken into protective custody and provided with accommodation either at the Women Police station or Police Lines Peshawar. He also ordered police provide the couple with food and clothing, the paper reported.
The 22-year-old Hewad married 18-year-old Mariyam Marjman last month after they escaped Kabul with the help of a Pakistani friend. According to the Tribune, the Afghan nationals eloped when they found out that Mariyam's parents wanted her to marry the husband of her deceased elder sister. They took the dead sister's two-year-old daughter with them.
The chief justice dismissed an earlier decision by a judicial magistrate to send Mariyam back to Kabul and book Hewad under the Foreigners' Act for not having the correct travel documents.
He repealed the ruling against Hewad at Mirpur police station in Abbottabad, saying the couple had taken refugee under grave compulsion.
The PHC ordered police to protect the pair who fled Afghanistan and got married in the Pakistani town Abbottabad against the will of their families, according to Pakistan's Express Tribune.
PHC Chief Justice Dost Muhammad Khan ruled on Monday that the newlywed couple be taken into protective custody and provided with accommodation either at the Women Police station or Police Lines Peshawar. He also ordered police provide the couple with food and clothing, the paper reported.
The 22-year-old Hewad married 18-year-old Mariyam Marjman last month after they escaped Kabul with the help of a Pakistani friend. According to the Tribune, the Afghan nationals eloped when they found out that Mariyam's parents wanted her to marry the husband of her deceased elder sister. They took the dead sister's two-year-old daughter with them.
The chief justice dismissed an earlier decision by a judicial magistrate to send Mariyam back to Kabul and book Hewad under the Foreigners' Act for not having the correct travel documents.
He repealed the ruling against Hewad at Mirpur police station in Abbottabad, saying the couple had taken refugee under grave compulsion.
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