Pakistani council approves rapes to avenge honour

A village council in Pakistan permitted a landlord to rape the sister and sister-in-law of a man he accused of an illicit relationship with his daughter.

The council members, all of them landlords themselves, ruled that the influential landlord could avenge his honour by having sex with the farmer's daughter, who is 16, and daughter-in-law, who is 22.

Later the girls were locked in a room and raped by the landlord while two of his male relatives stood guard and the three-member council waited outside.