Two sisters with dual Pakistani and Spanish women were allegedly killed by their husbands, uncles and brother in so-called honor killing one day after they were tricked into going to Pakistan.
Anisa Abbas, 24, and Aruj Abbas, 21, were strangled and shot dead. dead on Friday after arrival in Oriental city of Gujrat with their mother Azra Bibi.
It is clear that, on arrival in Pakistan, the sisters were pressured help their husbands, who they were forced to marry last yearapply for spouse visas so they can travel to Europe.
Anisa and Aruj are said to have been killed when they refused help. Both women wanted divorce your husbands who we also their cousins ​​so they can remarry in Spain.
“The investigation confirmed that both sisters were killed. in title of “an honor,” police investigator Muhammad Akhtar said.
Police said the women’s husbands, Hasan Aurengzeb and Atik Hanif, their uncle Hanif Goga and their brother Shehriar Abbas, were arrested and confessed to killing. Two others men were arrested in connection with in attack.
hundreds of women killed family members in pakistan every year in so-called “honor” killings for violation conservative rules governing women’s relationships, even though the 2016 law eliminated loopholes in law allowing criminals walk for free in deeply patriarchal society of the country.
Earlier that year, murder of Kandil Baloch, known as the “Pakistani Kim Kardashian”. brother Waseem Azeem caused a spark national outrage and demands for changes to the law. Azim was sentenced to life imprisonment, but acquitted. in February of this year after it parents forgave him.
Samar Minallah, a human rights activist, said: “This is another brutal murder of innocent girls have grown in appreciates another culture basic human rights, nevertheless treated like inanimate objects by their families.”
According to the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, independent rights group, more over 470 cases of Honor killings reported in the country last year.
it’s not uncommon for parents with dual citizenship force their daughters marry cousins in Pakistan to secure European visas. Report on forced marriage published by UK government in 2020, found almost 40% of cases involving the removal of British citizens to Pakistan for marriage against their wishes.
In 2016, Samia Shahid, a British Pakistani beautician based in Bradford. in in north of England, was raped and killed when she returned to the Jhelum area after marrying a man from outside in family. She used to left her first husband first cousin from their village in Pakistan. Her ex-husband and father were arrested for her murder. Six years later, the case continues.
