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New York: Woman Testifies Against Father in “Honor Killing” Plot

In a Brooklyn courtroom, 23 year old woman Amina Ajmal told the court that her father had threatened to murder her in an “honor killing” plot, after spending six months in hiding, telling a federal jury, “he told me he would kill me.”    She provided this testimony at the federal jury trial of her father, Brooklyn taxicab driver Mohammad Choudhry, on trial for murder conspiracy.   The New York Post reported that, in Pakistan, Amina Ajmal’s father “forced her into a loveless arranged marriage and then allegedly gunned down her true love’s father and sister after she ran away.”   She stated the murder threats continued in the United States of America, stating “He told me, ‘I will kill you if you do anything wrong now.'”  The Post stated “Ajmal testified that she lived in Pakistan before moving to Flatbush with her father and four siblings in 1999 when she was 9. Her mother died when she was only 4.”

On June 25, 2014, the New York Post reported that:

“Prosecutors said just days later Choudhry had the father and sister of Ajmal’s lover, Shujat Abbas, gunned down in their Pakistani village. Months earlier, Choudhry had forced his Brooklyn-raised daughter to marry her cousin, Abrar Ahmed Babar, so the man could get eventually get U.S. citizenship, prosecutors say. They wed in December 2012 but Ajmal fled the union just a month later with the help of Abbas and U.S. embassy officials. After going into hiding in America, federal agents arranged for her to call the incensed father. Defense lawyers say federal agents coached Ajmal, 23, to manipulate her father into making the threats which are now being used as evidence against him.”

This included taped conversations such as his comments that:

“Until I find you, nothing is going to stop me”…”I am going to kill their whole family.”

Mohammad Choudhry was found guilty, as reported on July 3, 2014.

Amina Ajmal

Amina Ajmal