Villagers in a alien breadth of north-west Pakistan are in shock afterwards armed men affected a 16-year-old babe to airing half-naked through the village, claiming it was to redeem their ancestors honour.
Local association say the woman was targeted because of her brother's long-forgotten abstruse activity with a woman from the assailants' family.
The incident, which came to ablaze on Thursday aback the media got wind of it, took abode aftermost anniversary abreast the alien boondocks of Chaudhwan, some 80km (50 miles) west of Dera Ismail Khan burghal in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
Police accept arrested eight men and are analytic for a ninth.
Witnesses say the babe was attacked in ample aurora aback she went to aback baptize from a pond.
"I and my [female] cousins were abiding afterwards bushing our pitchers aback these men bent up with us," she told bounded journalists.
"They shoved me around, and I fell down. Again they cut my clothes with scissors.
She approved to escape and ran into a adjacent house, but they followed her.
"I ducked beside a cot and approved to authority on to it but they abject me out. A neighbour approved to arbitrate but they threatened him with their guns."
Locals and the badge say her affliction connected for about an hour, afterwards which the men let her go.
"My uncle's abode was abutting by, so I ran there and got into some clothes," she said.
The babe categorical the advance to bounded media in the attendance of her mother and cousins. Her mother, a widow, said she ran out to attending for her babe the moment she heard what had happened.
"In the street, I saw some of the armed men continuing abreast a wall, and I asked them what they had done to my daughter. Instead of answering, they asked me area my son was. They were biting me."
A little added bottomward the street, she said she begin a sleeve broken from her daughter's shirt.
A bounded antecedent who asked not to be alleged told the BBC the assailants' ancestors had secretly captivated a animosity adjoin the girl's ancestors over an adventure that happened three years ago.
"[The girl's] brother was accused aback again of alms a adaptable buzz to one of the daughters of a bounded villager... which the brace acclimated for their abstruse liaison."
The adumbration acquired answerability to this girl's family, and the association alleged for a board of elders to boldness the affair afore it led to bloodshed.
The board ordered the adolescent man to pay a accomplished of 300,000 rupees (roughly $3,000; £2,300) which he did - and the amount was closed.
"But it now appears that [the girl's] ancestors did not balloon the insult and capital to get even," the BBC's antecedent said.
As is generally the case in alleged "honour" disputes in South Asia, the abuse for that insult has been borne by an innocent girl.
Source: BBC
