‘Honour’ Killings: Man electrocutes his two daughters

ARIFWALA: A man killed his two teenage daughters over suspicion of their having had an affair. According to police officials, Chak No62EB resident Zahoor Ahmed Gujjar killed his daughters Kishwar, 17, and Sadia, 15, by electrocuting them. Neighbours told police officials that Ahmed suspected the girls of having relations with two boys from the neighbourhood. Following the murder, Ahmed tried to flee the scene but was arrested by police officials. Police officials sent the bodies of the victims to the tehsil municipal administration for a post mortem.

Published in The Express Tribune, June 19th, 2011.