Three held for allegedly murdering sister

Police say victim was killed for remarrying of her own accord

BAJAUR:

Police arrested three brothers for killing their sister in the name of honour in the Bajaur tribal district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa.

A woman, the mother of six, went missing in the middle of the holy month of Ramazan and her husband Noor Khan lodged an FIR with Khar police station, accusing her brothers of confining her.

“The woman was married but later her husband divorced her and handed over the house to her where she lived with her five children. Later she remarried Noor Khan and gave birth to a girl,” said police while talking to The Express Tribune.

“No one had any idea that the woman had been divorced by her first husband because the woman lived in the same house with her children but she secretly remarried another man,” he said, adding that when her brothers discovered, they locked her up in a room in their own house and later secretly killed and buried her.

Police arrested the three brothers when they refused that they had anything to do with the disappearance of their sister. During interrogation, however, they told police that they had killed her and buried her secretly.

“The dead body has been found. The unfortunate woman had been shot and then buried secretly in fields,” he added, saying that the body was sent for autopsy and all the three brothers have been arrested for murder.

“Police also contacted the first husband of the slain woman and he confirmed that three years ago he had divorced his wife and moved away leaving her with children in the house,” said the investigation officer.

Police suspects that the woman remarried secretly and when she gave birth to her daughter, her brothers discovered that she had remarried without the consent of her brothers which was considered a great shame for the entire family.

“The woman was first confined and locked in a room by her brothers. They wanted her to leave her second husband but when she refused, they killed her,” he said.

Published in The Express Tribune, May 15^th, 2023.