- Five brother of a murdered woman reserved in case of murder.
- The couple hired the court marriage seven years ago.
- The Baluchistan government orders immediate arrest of suspects.
Mastung/Quetta: A couple, who hired a marriage in court seven years ago, was brutally murdered by armed men in the Mastung district of Baluchistan that is said to be carried out by the Women’s Brothers.
This is the second shocking incident that comes from Baluchistan in less than a month. Previously, a video went viral, who showed a group of men who forced a couple out of a vehicle and took them to a desert, where they were shot at a short distance after the orders of a tribal jirga in Degari.
Meanwhile, Mastung’s married couple, who was 20 years old and originally residents of Panjgur, were shot dead in a local hotel in the LakPass mastung area, according to the Levies officials.
The victims were identified as Muhammad Shoaib and his wife, who contracted a loving marriage seven years ago, which had later been accepted by the woman’s family after reconciliation.
They added that the couple traveled to Quetta from Panjgur by invitation of the women’s brothers under the pretext of a family reunion.
According to taxes, the woman’s brothers arrived at the hotel and fatally shot the couple before fleeing the scene.
The murdered couple were parents of two children of six and three years, while the woman was pregnant at the time of her death, officials said.
Five brothers of the murdered woman were hired in the case of murder registered at a Levia station on the complaint of Shoaib’s brother. The encumbrances said that raids were being carried out to arrest the defendant.
The woman’s brothers attracted the couple under false claims and killed them, declared the first information report (FIR).
Meanwhile, the Baluchistan government has realized the incident. A spokesman confirmed that the interested authorities have been ordered to guarantee the immediate action and arrest of the guilty.
Degari’s honor murder incident had caught attention after the video went viral last week, causing outrage in Pakistan and causing the arrest of more than a dozen people, including a tribal chief.
In Pakistan, ‘honor’ murders continued to claim the lives of women throughout 2024.
According to the Organization for Sustainable Social Development (SSDO) 2024 Report ‘mapping of gender violence (GBV) in Pakistan’, 2,238 cases of domestic violence, 547 cases of honor murders and 5,339 cases of rape throughout the country were reported, while the conviction rates were less than 2% for each of these crimes.
From January to November, a total of 346 people were victims of “honoring” crimes in the country. The previous two years also saw a constant increase in murders related to the so -called ‘honor’.
In 2023, the country saw a total of 490 incidents of murder of ‘Honor’, while in 2022, up to 590 people lost their lives to ‘honor’ the murders.
