Pakistani police arrested six males from the identical household on Sunday, accused of murdering two sisters who have been from the identical village but additionally had Spanish citizenship.
Police mentioned that Urooj Abbas, 21, and Anisa Abbas, 23, have been severely tortured and shot lifeless within the Gujrat district of Punjab province, which neighbours India. The two girls have been allegedly killed for refusing to deliver their husbands — cousins from compelled marriages — to Spain.
Officer Ataur Rehman mentioned that homicide prices have been levelled towards the victims’ brother, a paternal uncle, each husbands, a cousin, and each fathers-in-law. Two unknown suspects and one other relative additionally charged within the homicide have been nonetheless at massive.
Forced marriages are frequent in rural areas of conservative Pakistan, the place relations don’t hesitate to kill girls who refuse them or ignore the opinions of household elders. Rights teams say round 1,000 girls are killed yearly in so-called honour killings in Pakistan.
