Couple gunned down by family in 'honour killing'

Lahore - Man kills daughter, son-in-law after they return to settle matters

A couple was murdered in Lahore on Friday for marrying without their family's consent, according to officials, the second so-called "honour killing" in the country this week.
Mohammed Ashraf, 56, killed his daughter Saba and her husband Karamat Ali a day after the couple returned to Lahore's Kahna area to smooth over rocky relations with the family, who disapproved of the marriage, according to police.
"Saba, who was 18-year-old, had married Karamat Ali, who is 35, around a year and a half ago against the will of her family and returned to her home on Thursday night to settle matters with father and other family members," Falak Sher, a local police official, said.
Mohammed Ashraf, a security guard by profession, opened fire on his daughter and son-in-law after becoming infuriated during a heated conversation.
"He also killed his neighbour Mohammed Akram for supporting his daughter's marriage," said Sher, adding that Ashraf and his son Safdar later surrendered to police and confessed to the murders.
According to newspaper reports, Mohammed Usman, a brother of Akram, claimed that Mohammed Ashraf had a monetary dispute with his son-in-law.
"The couple lived in Abdullah Town in Kahna and often visited Saba's parents to stay with them as her parents had already become reconciled to her decision to marry of her own choice. Ashraf had a heated argument with his son-in-law before he murdered the couple," he said.
Police shifted the bodies to a morgue for autopsy and registered a murder case against Ashraf and his two sons on the complaint of Usman.
The incident comes just days after another woman in Lahore, Zeenat Bibi, was set on fire by her mother for marrying a man of her own choice. Bibi's mother later confessed to the crime.
Earlier on Friday Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif ordered a comprehensive investigation into Bibi's killing, calling the crime un-Islamic.
"Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif expressed his deep concern and anguish over the killing of the woman in the eastern city of Lahore and said the incident was against the values and traditions of Islam," read a statement from the premier's office.

1,100 women killed for 'dishonouring' families
> Nearly 1,100 women were killed in Pakistan last year by relatives who believed they had dishonoured their families.
> The Human Rights Commission said that 900 more women suffered sexual violence and nearly 800 took, or tried to take, their own lives.
> In 2014 about 1,000 women died in honour-related attacks and 869 in 2013.
> Most of the 1,096 victims were shot, the commission said, but attacks with acid were also common.
> 88 men were also the victims of honour killings last year.
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