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May 4, 2006
After a woman in Pakistan found out that her husband wanted to leave her for a fourth wife, she took matters into her own hands by beheading him, chopping up his body and then dumping the parts in a sewerage drain. Local Police say Majeeda Khatoon killed her husband, a well-off building contractor, while he was asleep, and cut his body into seven pieces with the help of two male relatives in Gulshan-e-Hadeed, a suburb on the outskirts of Karachi, according to Reuters.
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May 1, 2006
A Pakistani couple who were held in jail for five years for marrying without the consent of the woman's father were ordered by a judge to be released on Sunday. Sodi, 23, and her husband, Abdul Hakeem Kashkeli, were released after a hearing in the southern city of Hyderabad.
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April 20, 2006
Danish police found more than $1 million worth of heroin that had been smuggled into the country from Pakistan in the hollowed-out blades of 25 antique sword replicas. The police seized the drugs after raiding the apartment of a British man who had died earlier from a drug overdose along with a woman of unknown nationality in a hotel room in Copenhagen.
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April 19, 2006
Danish police find more than $1 million worth of heroin stashed inside the blades of 25 antique sword replicas. Reuters reports the drugs were smuggled into the country in hollowed-out blades from Pakistan.
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April 5, 2006
Researchers have found nine skulls with 11 drill holes in a Pakistan graveyard proving that dentistry is at least 4,000 years older than first thought. An article in Thursday's journal Nature reports that primitive dentists drilled nearly perfect holes into live but undoubtedly unhappy patients between 5500 B. C. and 7000 B. C. As it was much before the useful invention of anesthesia.
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