JHELUM: A woman has been killed by her family in Pind Dadan Khan district of Jhelum for contracting a freewill marriage.
Shagufta, a resident of Jalalpur Sharif, sought to marry a man named Hussain.Upon her family’s refusal to allow her to wed the man of her choosing, Shagufta had run away to Hussain’s house.
However, vowing to allow her to marry Hussain, Shagufta’s relatives brought her back home after a few days but strangled her to death upon return.
After being informed of the incident, police took Shagufta’s body into custody and shifted it to a local hospital for post-mortem.
Police officials said they will conduct further investigations into the matter after the post-mortem report is issued.
Similarly, on April 7, a brother killed his eight months pregnant sister for contracting a marriage of her own will in Sindh’s Khairpur district.
The victim, a mother of one, had willingly married a man from a caste different than hers in a court of Sukkur in August 2016 without her family’s approval and her action irked her brother who killed her.