LAHORE, Pakistan,  (Reuters) – A Pakistani court has  ordered that two brothers should have their noses and ears cut  off after they were found guilty of doing the same to a woman  who refused to marry one of them, a government prosecutor said  yesterday.

The judge at an anti-terrorism court in the eastern city of  Lahore handed down the sentences on Monday in line with the  Islamic law of Qisas.

The law was introduced in Pakistan during the military rule  of General Mohammad Zia-ul-Haq in 1979. It stipulates  punishment equal to the crime, akin to an eye-for-an-eye,  unless the culprit is pardoned by the victim or the victim’s  family.

The two brothers, Sher Mohammad and Amanat Ali, abducted  their 22-year-old cousin, Fazeelat Bibi, at gunpoint in  September after her father refused to let her marry Mohammad.

“They put a noose around her neck and tried to strangle  her. After failing to do so, Sher Mohammad chopped of her nose  and two ears with a knife,” government prosecutor Ehtesham  Qadir told Reuters.

Such sentences are rarely handed down by Pakistani courts  and have always been revoked on appeal.

The court also sentenced the pair to life in prison, Qadir  said, adding three of their accomplices were on the run.