In the Hadyara village of Lahore, a brother injured her sister and killed a 26-year-old man Yasir, in the name of honour.
According to details, Kasur resident Yasir visited the village to meet his relatives.
On seeing the sister and Yasir together, the brother became furious and attacked them with an axe.
Both were shifted to General Hospital, however; Yasir succumbed to his injuries while the girl is said to be in critical condition.
Police reached the hospital and shifted Yasir’s body to morgue for post-mortem.
More than 500 people — almost all women — die in Pakistan each year in such killings, usually carried out by members of the victim’s family meting out punishment for bringing “shame” on the community and violating traditional values.
In October this year, National Assembly passed legislation closing a loophole that allowed people who killed in the name of “honour” to go free, mandating life imprisonment even if the victim’s relatives forgive the murder.
“A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness” — a film telling the story of a rare survivor of an attempted honour killing — won the Academy Award for best documentary short in February.
Amid publicity for the film, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif vowed to eradicate the “evil” of honour killings but no fresh legislation has been tabled since then.
