Pakistani man arrested for 鈥榟onor killing鈥 of sister
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PAKISTANI police have arrested a man in Karachi for slitting his sister’s throat and letting her bleed to death, the latest “honor killing” in the deeply patriarchal country.
Hayat Khan, aged about 20, used a kitchen knife to murder his 16-year-old sister Sumaira after he found her talking to a man on her mobile phone at their home in the low-income Orangi Town neighborhood of the city on Wednesday, according to senior police officer Azfar Mahesar.
Hayat then threw her out of the house where she continued to bleed and writhe in pain as neighbors gathered.
Investigating officer Gulzar Ahmed confirmed the details of the attack, adding that Sumaira had suffered multiple stab wounds to the neck, chest and back.
Mobile phone footage shot by an unknown onlooker shows several men and boys standing around Sumaira, who is seen lying face down, dressed in a red tunic and orange headscarf and draped in a blanket.
Her head is seen lolling from side to side. A young boy is shown fighting back tears as one man says in Pashto: “Let’s take her to a hospital in a car,” and another replies: “It’s almost here, it’s coming brother.”
The video then pans to Hayat, dressed in a purple shirt and blue jeans, who stares directly at the camera.
Abdul Hakeem, a local resident, said: “She was taken by car to a private hospital but she died before she arrived.”
Mahesar said police took the unusual step of making themselves the complainants in the case in order to avoid a loophole that allows relatives of the victim to forgive the killer.
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