Father kills 2 daughters for fleeing with a man
July 23, 2012, Monday
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AN Afghan man killed his two teenage daughters when they returned home four days after running away with a man, police said yesterday.
The father, who shot the girls, has been detained on murder charges in Nad Ali district in the southern province of Helmand, a hotbed of the Taliban insurgency, provincial police spokesman Farid Ahmad Farhang said.
"He killed two of his daughters. His daughters had run away with a young man four days ago. When they returned home their father killed them," Farhang said.
Police have issued an arrest warrant for the young man, who is said to be working as an interpreter with NATO forces, Farhang said.
Relations between men and women outside marriage are strictly controlled under Islam and infringements are harshly punished by most families in the country.
So-called "honor killing" is a common practice in Afghanistan, an Islamic nation that has been at war for most of the past 30 years.
The Taliban recently publicly executed a young woman in a village near Kabul after she was accused of adultery.
The father, who shot the girls, has been detained on murder charges in Nad Ali district in the southern province of Helmand, a hotbed of the Taliban insurgency, provincial police spokesman Farid Ahmad Farhang said.
"He killed two of his daughters. His daughters had run away with a young man four days ago. When they returned home their father killed them," Farhang said.
Police have issued an arrest warrant for the young man, who is said to be working as an interpreter with NATO forces, Farhang said.
Relations between men and women outside marriage are strictly controlled under Islam and infringements are harshly punished by most families in the country.
So-called "honor killing" is a common practice in Afghanistan, an Islamic nation that has been at war for most of the past 30 years.
The Taliban recently publicly executed a young woman in a village near Kabul after she was accused of adultery.
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