Pakistani Father, 3 Relatives Held for ‘Honour Killing’: Police

Published on November 29, 2023

PESHAWAR, Pakistan—Pakistani police have arrested four people, including a man who killed his teenage daughter on instructions from family elders because she had appeared in a picture on social media, police said on Wednesday. The police said the 18-year-old woman was shot dead by her father last week in the northwestern Kolai-Palas valley near the Afghan border after her relatives advised him to do so. The relatives also called for a so-called honour killing of the woman’s friend who appeared with her in the picture, but she had been rescued by the police, officials said. The father, Arslan Mohsin, and three relatives have been arrested and produced before a court, police official Masood Khan told Reuters, adding that more arrests were pending....