Police arrested a suspect on Saturday for allegedly killing his female cousin for ‘honor’ in the Shangla district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
The House officer of the Bisham Station, Syed Khurshid Ali Dawn.com The incident occurred in the Bobai area of Bisham Tehsil on Friday. The first information report was presented at the Bisham Police Station on the victim’s father’s complaint a day under section 302 (premeditated murder) of the Pakistan Criminal Code.
The plaintiff said he was at home at 8 pm when his daughter went out to the bathroom and soon heard shots, and added that when she left, she saw her nephew with a gun and eliminated her daughter. In addition, he said his daughter was breathing for the last time when she reached her.
The father said his daughter had been married for three years and had a young son.
Talk with Dawn.comSho Syed Khurshid Ali said: “The suspect was arrested today. Initially, the FIR was housed under section 302, but then it will be changed to section 311 (Honor murder) since the incident was related to the honor [killing]. “
The Sho added: “The cousin suspected that the victim had come to know someone and was in an illegal relationship.”
He said that an investigation was initiated in the incident.
A couple was shot dead by the women’s family for ‘honor’ in the Mastung district of Baluchistan, police said Wednesday.
The incident occurred more than a week after the murder of a man and a woman in the degari area of Quetta by order of a tribal jirga ahead of Eidul Azha for the so -called ‘honor’. Subsequently, the police had arrested at least 14 suspects for their participation in the incident.
Last week, a man supposedly killed his daughter and nephew in Quetta in the name of ‘Honor’, a few days after the Degari case, in which a couple was shot dead in broad daylight, which takes a generalized conviction, according to the police.
On July 26, a Rawalpindi court sent three suspects to police custody for an alleged murder and a case of “honor” murder of a newly married woman.
The police had initiated the investigation based on the information that a woman had been killed in the name of ‘Honor’ in Pirwadhai, after a jirga in which members of both families participated.
In Pakistan, ‘honor’ murders continued to claim the lives of women throughout 2024, perpetuated by deeply rooted social beliefs about family dignity and shame.
Pakistan Human Rights Commission data show that in 2024, ‘honor’ murders continued to be a serious problem in all Pakistan, with particularly high figures in Sindh and Punjab. From January to November, a total of 346 people were victims of “honoring” crimes in the country.
