Pak man shoots dead two sisters in ‘honour killings’
LAHORE: A man killed his two sisters on the eve of their weddings in Pakistan’s central Punjab province, police said on Saturday, in the latest case of so-called “honour killings”.
Kosar and Gulzar Bibi, aged 22 and 28, were shot dead by 35-year-old brother Nasir Hussain on Friday as they prepared to marry men they had chosen themselves, senior police officer Mehar Riaz told AFP.
Hussain objected to the love matches and had wanted the women to marry someone within the extended family, he said.
“The brother shot dead both the sisters yesterday (Friday) and fled the site,” the officer said, adding a search was underway.
“It is a simple case of killing for honour,” Riaz said.
Father of the family Atta Mohammad told reporters Hussain had “destroyed everything”. “He ruined my family, he destroyed us, he destroyed everything,” Mohammad said.
The murders came days after social media starlet Qandeel Baloch was strangled to death by her brother, who said he was “not embarrassed” to have killed her, reigniting calls for action against the crime.
Hundreds of women are murdered by relatives in Pakistan each year on the pretext of defending “family honour”.