Two teenage ladies and a person have been killed whereas a person’s nostril and an ear have been minimize off “within the title of honour” in three separate incidents in Punjab province of Pakistan, police stated on Tuesday.
Within the first incident in Sargodha district of Punjab, some 200 kilometres from Lahore, police stated Naseer Ahmad suspected his 19-year-old daughter of getting an affair with Mukhtar, a person in his locality.
“On Monday, Ahmad first killed his daughter at his residence after which went to the place of Mukhtar the place he stabbed him to demise,” police stated, including that the daddy later surrendered earlier than the police.
Within the different incident in Chiniot metropolis, some 170 kilometres from Lahore, Ahmad Sher stabbed his sister, 18, to demise for “disgracing the household’s honour”.
Police stated the suspect after killing his sister dumped her physique in a drain.
Police arrested Sher, who confessed to his crime and stated he additionally wished to kill his sister’s lover however couldn’t discover him within the city.
Within the third incident, 5 brothers minimize off a person’s nostril and an ear for his alleged relationship with their sister in the identical Chiniot Metropolis.
Police stated Bakhsh, Riaz, Ata, Ahmad, and Mukhtar reached the outhouse of Nasir, who they suspected was having an affair with their sister and beat him black and blue. They minimize off Nasir’s nostril and proper ear and fled.
Police registered a case towards the suspects and arrested one in every of them.
Honour-killing incidents are rampant in Pakistan.
Over 1,000 ladies are killed yearly within the nation within the title of honour, in response to the Human Rights Fee of Pakistan.
