More than a dozen men suspected of being involved in the murder of a single couple in Balutchistan, in southwest Pakistan, were arrested, police announced on Monday 21, after the publication of a video that has become viral on social networks.
According to a police report consulted by AFP, a married woman and her lover were killed last June after trying to flee, near Margat, near Quetta, the provincial capital of Balutchistan, a region full of recurring violence.
A family court
In a widely shared video in recent days on social networks, we see dozens of men surrounded by collection and 4×4 in a remote mountainous area, ordering a woman and a man who stops in front of them, before one man cuts them one after another.
“We have arrested more than a dozen men involved in the incident,” a police officer told the AFP on condition of anonymity, without being authorized to speak with the media.
According to this source, the cousin of the woman and the man who presided over the Jirga, a tribal council that decided to kill the couple, are among those arrested. The provincial government has decided to consider the archive as a fact of “terrorism.” For his part, Balutchistan’s prime minister denounced an “atrocious” incident.
In Pakistan, a deep conservative country, hundreds of “honor” crimes and that allow men to kill women from their family because they condemn their behavior, identify each year.
“This recent case, which has only been subject to intervention because the video has gone viral, would certainly have been buried as hundreds of people who have not been reported,” reacted to the AFP Nighat Dad, activist for women’s rights.
“Nothing has changed,” he said.
The latter regrets that the jirgas continue to issue such decisions, despite the prohibition of the Supreme Court.
Source: BFM TV
