PESHAWAR:
A young man and a teenaged girl have been killed, allegedly for ‘honour’, and then quietly buried without performing their last rites in Peshawar, it emerged on Wednesday.
Police officials say the incident took place six days ago and that they have arrested three suspects, while their bodies will be exhumed for further investigations.
SP City Waqar Azeem Kharal said that he had received a tip-off from an informant that 21-year-old Waqas Khairuddin and a 16-year-old girl Samina had been killed in the name of honour on the night of July 2 and were then silently buried in unmarked graves without a proper funeral in the Dir Colony area within the remits of the Agha Mir Jani police station.
After verifying the initial information, SP Kharal said that he tasked the Agha Mir Jani SHO Ali Syed Khan to launch an inquiry.
The police team apprehended three suspects including Saleh Mohammad, Nooruddin and Shahabuddin. During subsequent questioning, they allegedly confessed to their involvement in the murder.
Published in The Express Tribune, July 9th, 2020.
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