Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Pakistani Muslim Father Guns Down His Six Daughters In Mass Honor Killing


Okay, I have covered many honor killings here at Holger Awakens but I have never run across anything like this - a Pakistani father, a Muslim, suspected two of his daughters of unapproved visits with boys and so he gathered ALL SIX of his daughters in a room at his home and shot and killed each and every one of them. Six girls killed. Because of honor. Because of allah. Because of Mo.

From the article at The Tribune:

A man gunned down six of his daughters on suspicion that two of them were in relationships with boys in the neighbourhood.

On Tuesday morning, Arif Mubashir called his teenage daughters to his room and shot them while the rest of the family, including their mother, watched. His wife Musarrat called the police after the incident.

Mubashir shot the girls after their brother said two of them were in a relationship. He told police officials that he had killed his daughters because they were both “without honour”. The man said his daughters Sameena, 14, and Razia, 16, were in a relationship with college boys from the neighbourhood and the sisters had helped each other. “I should have been told immediately but the girls sided with each other. They were both corrupt,” Mubashir told Tandlianwala Police Inspector Javed Sial.

Police officials have taken Mubashir into custody and filed a case against him. “He does not regret what he did. He boasted that he would do it all over again if he had to,” Sial told reporters.


I'm sorry, I just can't think of anything else to say. It's not often that I am at a loss for words.



Honour killings: Man guns down six daughters


FAISALABAD:

A man gunned down six of his daughters on suspicion that two of them were in relationships with boys in the neighbourhood.

On Tuesday morning, Arif Mubashir called his teenage daughters to his room and shot them while the rest of the family, including their mother, watched. His wife Musarrat called the police after the incident.

Mubashir shot the girls after their brother said two of them were in a relationship. He told police officials that he had killed his daughters because they were both “without honour”. The man said his daughters Sameena, 14, and Razia, 16, were in a relationship with college boys from the neighbourhood and the sisters had helped each other. “I should have been told immediately but the girls sided with each other. They were both corrupt,” Mubashir told Tandlianwala Police Inspector Javed Sial.

Police officials have taken Mubashir into custody and filed a case against him. “He does not regret what he did. He boasted that he would do it all over again if he had to,” Sial told reporters.

Pakistan has repeatedly been termed as one of the least women-friendly countries. In June, the Thompson Reuters Foundation ranked Pakistan as the world’s third most dangerous country for women.

2 comments:

Henry Bowman said...

Religion of Peace my A$$.............

Bigfoot said...

I agree. There isn't much you can say about this horror. Except maybe that the term "incident" is woefully underdescriptive.