One of my best friends, who is a Pakistani and now settled in SL, certainly echoes your sentiments when she travels to her homeland. She was relating to me how many women and men, young and old, tend to go about armed in certain provinces,which to me sounded scary!

So yes I believe this couple are sadly paying a high price for their folly of seeking adventure and thrill in places they were warned not to visit.I do hope they are released unscathed though, and learn from their mistake!