PAKISTAN'S ROMEO AND JULIET, TO DIE BY STONING?

When you think you have heard the last of Islamic Republic of Pakistan, here comes two love-struck birds who must not marry or have the fate of impending death await them. They chose the later and today, their days are numbered as they stow away from the stones and rocks of their would-be persecutors, Pakistanis preserving their "honor"? What a perversion that people whose hearts have melt together will not be allowed to enjoy the bliss of their found love? Icheoku says, it is a crime to fall in love in Pakistan except your family approves!

Pervez Chachar and wife Humera Kambo are seen in the picture above, sitting in a makeshift room in a police headquarters in Karachi; still enjoying whatever moments they may still have left on this earth; as fatwa is a subsisting decree which only runs its course when the accused's blood is spilled. Their respective families have decreed that they shall die for bringing dishonor to their families by falling in love with each other, rival tribes who have been at each other's throat will not allow love to heal old wounds? Icheoku asks, is there any similarities with Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet classical with this Pakistan's Pervez and Humera?

This is a case where the world should rise up to defend this two love birds; including giving them an asylum at a more civilized part of the world, if the Pakistani authorities cannot protect them. Icheoku asks, when has falling in love become a crime? The couple's intransigence for which they have been condemned to die by stoning, is falling in love and marrying each other without their families' approval? Until they are killed, the newlyweds who are from rival tribes in Pakistan, dare not venture out of their self-imposed prison - the police station, as they fear their families will hunt them down and kill them to preserve some families' honor? What a lunacy, in this 21st century and in a country that prides itself as a nuclear power? What honor are these people talking about, that is of such magnitude as to warrant spilling of the blood of innocence? Pakistanis, this is shameful; it gives you a bad name and should and must be stopped!