The bodies of a teenage Pakistani couple feared murdered in an "honour killing" bear marks suggesting they were electrocuted, police say.
Officials exhumed the bodies of Bakht Jan, 15, and her boyfriend Rehman, 17, a month after they were buried.
Doctors, police and a magistrate were present at the graveside in Karachi. Post-mortem results are awaited.
Police say the couple were planning to elope but their families found out and tribal elders ordered them killed.
Death by electrocution is almost unheard of in so-called honour killings in Pakistan, says the BBC's M Ilyas Khan in Islamabad. The BBC reported a suspected case in the Indian capital Delhi in 2010.
Four people, including the fathers of the dead Karachi couple, have been arrested. Police are trying to trace the whereabouts of the head of the tribal council (or jirga).
District police head Rao Anwaar told the media that police had been alerted to the killings and burials by an "informer".
He said the bodies exhumed at Mauladad graveyard in Sherpao Colony on Wednesday had marks on the arms, chest and legs that indicated electrocution.
"There were visible signs of electric shock and torture on both bodies," Civil Hospital Karachi Additional Police Surgeon Dr Qarar Ahmed Abbasi confirmed, Dawn newspaper reports.
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