Two girls, mother killed over family video

[Leader]

Two girls, mother killed over family video

A family video showing two teenage girls enjoying rain in their house led to their murder in Chilas on Sunday night. Their mother was also gunned down allegedly by her stepson and his four friends.

Five masked men barged into the house of retired police officer Rehmat Nabi and started firing, killing his wife and daughters, aged 15 and 16.

According to police, the crime was motivated by a video clip circulated on mobile phones and showing the girls overjoyed by rain in the lawn of their bungalow.

The video, recorded six months ago, was circulated in the area four months later probably after a relative sent it to his friends.

Police believed that the girls’ stepbrother Khutore took it as an “assault on the honour of his family” and tried to “restore the family’s honour” by killing the girls.

Khutore escaped when police tried to get in touch with him for investigation. But, his four friends were arrested and, according to a senior police official, they have confessed to the crime. A case has been registered against the five.


Two girls, mother killed over family video - DAWN.COM

aik tou in bayghairat pakistani mardo ka honour bari jaldi ****** hota hai..

 

[Devil Soul]

Oh baigharitoooooo, Sharam karoo.... the poor gals might have not know that some a$$hole is making vid......

 

[RescueRanger]

Oh baigharitoooooo, Sharam karoo.... the poor gals might have not know that some a$$hole is making vid......

^ This! The person who made and distributed the video should do the whole world a favour and hang himself, followed by the animals who killed these poor children, followed by the "community" that stood by and did nothing.

 

[Luftwaffe]

Pakistan khappay! I don't see anything in near or the future to be moving in right direction we are a LOST Nation a disgraced and everyone has a fair share in it.

 

[M.harris]

sHAME ON THE CULPRIT

 

[InvisbleSoldier]

shameless act.

 

[kurup]

RIP to the innocent women.

When the culprits of this horrendous crimes is arrested , instead of trials just shoot them in the head.

 

[ejaz007]

Pakistan khappay! I don't see anything in near or the future to be moving in right direction we are a LOST Nation a disgraced and everyone has a fair share in it.

The act should be condemned in the strongest possible terms no doubt about it however I do not agree with your statement. We are neither lost nor disgraced nation. An individual act can not be blamed on entire nation.

 

[ranjeet]

RIP to the victims. I am speechless, so now innocent girls can't even enjoy such little things in life that too in the vicinity of their own home. How low can we stoop in the name of honor. Utter shame.

 

[third eye]

BBC News - Pakistani women shot in 'honour killings'

Pakistani women shot in 'honour killings'

Three women in north Pakistan have been shot dead by a male relative who seemed to have believed that they had brought shame on their family, police say.

A mother and her two daughters - one aged just 17 - were allegedly killed by her stepson.

He had apparently seen a family video in which the daughters were shown laughing in front of their family home.

The woman's stepson appears to have considered the footage an assault on the family's honour.

So-called honour killings are common in northern Pakistan where women are seldom seen by men other than their relatives.

The latest attack took place in Gilgit Baltistan after recordings of the women were circulated in recent months in the remote and mountainous area which is renowned for the conservative lifestyle of its inhabitants.

In the mobile phone footage - seen by the BBC - the young women are filmed smiling and laughing in the rain outside their family home, with some little girls.

An audio recording was also passed around, of a woman allegedly thanking an admirer for a gift.

The BBC's Orla Guerin in Islamabad says that five young women and two men were reported killed in the same region last year after footage emerged of them singing and dancing together at a wedding.

The killings were said to have been ordered by a tribal Jirga, or local council.

But locals denied anyone had been killed when Pakistan's Supreme Court send a fact-finding mission to the area,

Leading human rights campaigners however expressed fear that all those in the wedding video were dead.

Campaigners say more than 900 women were killed in Pakistan last year in the name of family honour.

In spite of reform in the law they say conviction rates are not encouraging and in most cases the killers escape justice.

 

[Patriots]

Who knows that step sons would have done it by himself

 

[Skallagrim]

What is the punishment for the perpetrator of an honor killing in Pakistan? In courts are they treated same as the common murderer?

 

[Dubious]

That is insane! Now girls cant enjoy themselves....Well, hell that coward guy should have killed the video maker for staining his rubbish honor which he murdered mind you!

 

[Hyperion]

I'd go so far as to burn the whole village down with all the men inside. Let it be a lesson. Haram kay pillay Pakistani mard, mardangi kamzor auraton parr dekhatay hain....

^ This! The person who made and distributed the video should do the whole world a favour and hang himself, followed by the animals who killed these poor children, followed by the "community" that stood by and did nothing.

 

[RazPaK]

That's what you girls get for straying from the kitchen.