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Brooklyn cabbie gets life in U.S. prison over Pakistan 'honor killings'
Source: Reuters
US | Thu May 7, 2015 2:49pm EDT
Brooklyn cabbie gets life in U.S. prison over Pakistan 'honor killings'
NEW YORK | BY NATE RAYMOND
(Reuters) - A Brooklyn cab driver was sentenced to life in prison on Thursday for arranging the "honor killings" of two family members of a man who helped his daughter flee from Pakistan to the United States to escape an arranged marriage.
Mohammad Ajmal Choudhry, 62, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge William Kuntz in Brooklyn, New York, following his conviction last year on charges including conspiring to commit murder in a foreign country.
Kuntz said Choudhry had orchestrated a "calculated, cold-blooded" scheme after his daughter, with the help of the man she wanted to be with, fled her husband in Pakistan, who she was forced to marry so he could obtain a U.S. visa.
"You were an egomaniacal force who revealed yourself to be self-absorbed and merciless in your pursuit of evil," Kuntz said.
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Brooklyn cabbie gets life in U.S. prison over Pakistan 'honor killings'
NEW YORK | BY NATE RAYMOND
(Reuters) - A Brooklyn cab driver was sentenced to life in prison on Thursday for arranging the "honor killings" of two family members of a man who helped his daughter flee from Pakistan to the United States to escape an arranged marriage.
Mohammad Ajmal Choudhry, 62, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge William Kuntz in Brooklyn, New York, following his conviction last year on charges including conspiring to commit murder in a foreign country.
Kuntz said Choudhry had orchestrated a "calculated, cold-blooded" scheme after his daughter, with the help of the man she wanted to be with, fled her husband in Pakistan, who she was forced to marry so he could obtain a U.S. visa.
"You were an egomaniacal force who revealed yourself to be self-absorbed and merciless in your pursuit of evil," Kuntz said.
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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/05/07/us-usa-crime-pakistan-idUSKBN0NS26D20150507
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