‘A matter of honour’: Women forced to stay in flooded Pakistan village

Basti Ahmad Din, Pakistan (AFP) Sept 8, 2022

The 400 residents of Basti Ahmad Din, a tiny Pakistani village left surrounded by floodwater after torrential monsoon rains, are facing starvation and disease.

But they have refused pleas to evacuate.

Leaving for a relief camp would mean the women of the village mingling with men outside their families, residents told AFP, and that would violate their “honour”.

The women of Basti Ahm
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