Two women were recently brutally killed in Pakistan, allegedly by family members, because the women wanted to divorce their husbands. The women were both born in Pakistan but Spanish residents, and had recently returned on a visit to Pakistan. Gerry Hadden reports from Barcelona that the killings have hit a nerve in the Spanish Pakistani communities there, where many work to prevent forced marriages and domestic abuse.
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