Aiman Udas was a singer and songwriter in
Peshawar
Peshawar (; ps, پېښور ; hnd, ; ; ur, ) is the sixth most populous city in Pakistan, with a population of over 2.3 million. It is situated in the north-west of the country, close to the International border with Afghanistan. It is ...
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Pakistan
Pakistan ( ur, ), officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan ( ur, , label=none), is a country in South Asia. It is the world's fifth-most populous country, with a population of almost 243 million people, and has the world's second-lar ...
. Udas had frequently performed on
PTV television and AVT Khyber a private pashto channel in Pakistan.
Her first song that she performed was ''Zma da mene na toba da bya ba nakon mena'' (in the Pashto language.)
She won considerable acclaim for her songs but had become a musician in the face of bitter opposition from her family, who believed it was sinful for a woman to perform on television. In 2009, ashamed of her growing popularity, her two brothers are reported to have entered her flat while her husband (who is believed to be her 2nd husband) was out and fired three bullets into her chest, killing her. Neither has been caught.
Her final song was titled, “I died but still live among the living, because I live on in the dreams of my lover.”
See also
Honour killing in Pakistan
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2012 Kohistan video case
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Qandeel Baloch
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Stoning of Farzana Parveen
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Samia Sarwar
Samia Sarwar (1970 – 6 April 1999) was a Pakistani woman, who was shot dead in her lawyers' office in Lahore in an "honour killing."
Samia Sarwar was a married woman with two children, belonging to an affluent family of Peshawar. She claimed to ...
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Death of Samia Shahid
On 20 July 2016, Samia Shahid, a 28-year-old British Pakistani woman, was found dead in Punjab, Pakistan. Although involved in a dispute with her family, she had travelled to Pakistan alone as she had been told that her father was critically ill. R ...
References
Year of birth missing
2009 deaths
Pakistani women singers
People from Peshawar
Pashto-language singers
Pashtun people
Honour killing in Pakistan
Honor killing victims
Murder in Pakistan
Sororicides
Deaths by firearm in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
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