Couple from Lahore arrested in Gilgit

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GILGIT: Police registered a case here on Tuesday against a married couple for having been involved in “immoral activities” at a public place.

Police arrested the young man and woman — both from Lahore — near a bus station on Monday night.

According to a police official, the couple informed police that they contracted court marriage on Nov 14. They said they had left Lahore because there were threats to their lives as they contracted marriage against the wishes of their parents and that they had arrived in Gilgit-Baltistan to seek protection.

He said the couple had shown to police documents of their marriage contract. The couple would be presented before a court on Wednesday.

On the other hand, a team of the Punjab Police has arrived in Gilgit in search of the couple.

According to the official, the mother of the woman has lodged a complaint with police that her daughter has been kidnapped.

Published in Dawn, December 30th, 2015

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Jamil Nagri is a Gilgit-Baltistan-based correspondent for Dawn with over a decade of experience in journalism. His reporting and feature writing focus on CPEC, climate change, the environment, and adventure tourism. He can be found on X at @jamilnagri.

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M Jamal

Dec 30, 2015 08:41am

What a novel way of police to arrest a couple charging them of having immoral activities at public place.Hopefully their case is heared in GB and not in Lahore for justice.

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Aussie

Dec 30, 2015 08:51am

they got marriage certificate. so why police bothering them? what immoral activity they did??

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Jawad, Rawalpindi

Dec 30, 2015 09:23am

My wife and I did the love marriage, our parents didn't agreed with us eventho we were 25 yrs of age and had jobs. so we ran to azad kashmir and did court marriage there.

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Jawad, Rawalpindi

Dec 30, 2015 09:24am

Leave them alone they both are legal age and have marriage certificate.

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Shiraj

Dec 30, 2015 09:35am

Police nothing else to do.

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sana masood

Dec 30, 2015 09:50am

"immoral activities" on a public place,if they are married then why police is harrasssing them,may be parents bribe them to do that.lol..

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