Police in Pakistan are looking for ten men, including several tribal elders, who are accused of pressuring a Pakistani woman to hand over her teenage daughter as payment for a poker debt.
The mother says that despite paying off her late husband's debt of $165 dollars, a debt from 16 years ago, she was threatened with harm if she failed to hand over her daughter.
She says her daughter was to be surrendered as a bride for the son of the man who won the card game. Police say a group of elders from the tribe both families belong to ruled in January that, under tribal custom, the girl should be married to the other man's son.
Police say the mother and daughter are in their protection and that an investigation has been opened.
(Copyright 2007 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
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