Pakistan’s Prime Minister is condemning the “honor killing” of a pregnant woman, and ordering local authorities to take immediate action.  Farzana Parveen was stoned to death outside the high court in Lahore by members of her own family, because they objected to her marriage.  But there are startling revelations about the man she married for love over her family’s protests.

The husband Muhammad Iqbal said the attack was “shameful” and “inhumane”, and alleged Pakistani police “watched Farzana being killed and did nothing.”  Cops dispute that, and say that Farzana was dead by the time they arrived on the scene.  But investigators also say Iqbal has his own past with honor killings.

Punjab police deputy inspector general Zulfiqar Hameed says that authorities arrested Iqbal in 2009 in the killing of his first wife, Ayesha Bibi.  But Iqbal wasn’t charged, because such criminal cases can be dropped if family members of the deceased forgive them or accept so-called “blood money” offerings over the crime.  Family members confirmed this account to inquiring foreign journalists.  Iqbal wasn’t available to speak because he had been praying at second wife Farzana’s grave.

The killing has ignited outrage from people who are sick of violence against women in that part of the world.  Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has ordered the chief minister of Punjab province to take “immediate action” to arrest the remaining culprits in Farzana’s murder.  Her brothers reportedly absconded after the stoning, and her father turned himself in to police.