DERA ISMAIL KHAN:
An 18-year old girl was killed by her brother for possessing a cell phone in Shor Kot area of DI Khan, police said.
An official of the Saddar police station told The Express Tribune that Muhammad Aslam lodged an FIR under section 302 Pakistan Penal Code (PPC) against his own son, Malik Ameer, stating that his daughter Kaneza Bibi was washing dishes when her brother spotted a cell-phone invoking suspicion that the phone was given to the girl by someone who she had an illicit relationship with.
Ameer opened fire on his sister with a 30-bore pistol, which killed her immediately. The accused escaped arrest by fleeing from the site. Police have started investigations.
Published in The Express Tribune, September 1st, 2012.
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Just because the killer was or may have been insane is not proof or mean that Islam is not evil.
There are insane people in every culture. The report clearly says that the murder charges were prompted by the father of both the murderer and the murdered. Therefore the murderer's demand that independent access to media should be forbidden to women on pain of death clearly does NOT reflect the total values of their household, Among siblings, the insane who struggle for normality are often very jealous of the sane who are effortlessly normal. Jealousy is part of paranoia, and the supposition that a cell phone equals sexual betrayal is clearly a paranoid response. My heart goes out to the father who has lost TWO children in this incident.
Rural Pakistan is full of such people in all provinces - it's really a shame. Sharma Sahib we all condemn such incidents however mere condemnation will not rectify the situation till the time law enforcement agencies get serious about punishing the perpetrators.
The guy should be hanged!! Such a Douchebag.
After full one day of the publication of this news there is no comment to condemn the alleged brother. Does it signal that people feel that the brother was right to punish the sister for keeping a cell phone ( which was not given by the family members). Hope it is not what i apprehend so !!
it is not the case of the individual but the mindset which has developed over the years by receiving the so called values / traditions to distance the girls from seeing or talking with strangers.. Punishment is to be given to such values of honor than the individual. Every body in that society is responsible for such killings of the sisters/daughters. Don't cry on such killings but make an introspection.
Thats so bad.
Quran gives the woman all the rights and respect, talking to the opposite sex is not prohibited as no business could ever be done. If there is suspicion confirmed by multiple witness then the woman is to be confined to her house.
The Quran explains that to murder someone is like killing all humanity.
He has earned himself Hell and Hang him in Public.