A pregnant woman and her husband became victims of ‘honor killing’ Friday night in the suburbs of Faisalabad.
The deceased identified as Muhammad Shakil, 30, and Aqsa, 26, were allegedly killed for ‘honour’ by the latter’s brother who had recently returned from Saudi Arabia.
Shakil, who lived in Chak No. 41 JB, worked as Naib Qasid at a government school whereas his wife Aqsa worked as a lady health visitor in Rural Health Centre. The couple had married four years ago.
According to details, three days ago Aqsa’s brother along with her mother, maternal uncle and another accomplice barged into the couple’s house, mercilessly beating them and afterwards took the couple to an unidentified location.
On the complaint of Shakil’s father, Khushi Muhammad, Thikriwala Police Station registered a case of abduction against Asima, Muavia, Majeeda Bibi, Khalid and Khawar.
However, Thursday night bodies of Aqsa and Shakil were recovered from Gujra-Jang Branch canal.
An autopsy revealed that the deceased were killed by gun shots in their head. Visible marks of injuries were also found on their bodies.
The postmortem report also showed that Aqsa was pregnant and was to deliver the baby in four days.
Inspector Muhammad Waris of Police Station, Thikriwala said the abduction case has now been converted into murder charges under Section 302 of PPC against the accused.
So far, only Khawar has been arrested by the police while others have managed to flee, the police official said.
Gojra Police have buried the bodies of the victims of the ‘honour killing’ as the couple’s parents did not receive the corpses.
Man murdered in rare male ‘honour killing’:
Meanwhile in Multan, a man’s throat was slit by relatives of his wife who disapproved of their marriage in the latest case of ‘honour killing’ to hit the country, police said Saturday.
Hundreds of women are murdered by relatives in Pakistan each year on the pretext of defending what is seen as family honour, but it is rare for victim to be a man.
The murder happened at a marketplace in Burewala, Punjab on Friday, when Muhammad Irshad, 43, was attacked by his father-in-law and two brothers in-law, police said.
“The assailants were armed with knives and hatchets and after inflicting several wounds on Irshad’s body they slit his throat,” district police chief Ghazi Salahuddin said.
Irshad had married Mussarat Bibi, the daughter of a rich local agricultural family, about a year ago and fled as he feared his in-laws would kill him, but he had returned to see his parents, the police chief said.
A manhunt had been launched to find Irshad’s in-laws, who remained at large, he added.
