Crime against women: Brother kills sister for honour
The Millat Town SHO said that police had not registered a case
FAISALABAD:
A man shot and killed his sister and another man in Chak 119-JB. Millat Town police said Faiza* had been seeing a neighbour, Zaheer*. Rizwan Ali, the girl’s brother, had reprimanded her and asked her to end the relationship, but she continued to meet Zaheer. “On Wednesday, Rizwan saw Faiza and Zaheer together and shot and killed both of them,” police said. Police took the bodies to a hospital for autopsy. The Millat Town SHO said that police had not registered a case because it had not received a complaint from the families of the deceased.
*The names have been changed to protect identities
Published in The Express Tribune, August 21st, 2014.
A man shot and killed his sister and another man in Chak 119-JB. Millat Town police said Faiza* had been seeing a neighbour, Zaheer*. Rizwan Ali, the girl’s brother, had reprimanded her and asked her to end the relationship, but she continued to meet Zaheer. “On Wednesday, Rizwan saw Faiza and Zaheer together and shot and killed both of them,” police said. Police took the bodies to a hospital for autopsy. The Millat Town SHO said that police had not registered a case because it had not received a complaint from the families of the deceased.
*The names have been changed to protect identities
Published in The Express Tribune, August 21st, 2014.