Man’s ears, nose cut off in ‘honour’ crime

ARMED men cut off the ears and nose of a Pakistani man who married one of their tribe for love after he and his family refused to hand over his wife, police said yesterday.

The attackers also chopped the ears off the man’s brother and severed his mother’s hand in the latest “honour” crime to hit Pakistan’s conservative rural areas.

Such crimes, including killings, are common in areas where marriages without the consent of girls’ families are still taboo under centuries-old tribal and feudal traditions.