Islamabad:
A woman and two men have been shot dead in Pakistan in two different incidents of "honour killing", police said today.
The woman and her father-in-law were killed by the woman's brother Javed Khan with the help of his uncle on Friday, when the victims were sleeping in their home in Nowshera district of the troubled Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
The woman had married Amjad Khan in a local court about two years ago and had been living in Umer Abad, Dawn reported.
Amjad has filed an FIR against Javed and his uncle for murdering his wife and father, police said.
The bodies of both the victims have been sent for post-mortem.
In another incident, a body of an unidentified Afghan man has been found in Nowshera Kalan area.
The man was accused of forcibly taking the daughter of Abdul Rasheed to Afghanistan, police said. It appeared that the brothers of the girl had killed the man as they were missing from their home.
The body has been sent to the district hospital for autopsy.
The woman and her father-in-law were killed by the woman's brother Javed Khan with the help of his uncle on Friday, when the victims were sleeping in their home in Nowshera district of the troubled Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
The woman had married Amjad Khan in a local court about two years ago and had been living in Umer Abad, Dawn reported.
Amjad has filed an FIR against Javed and his uncle for murdering his wife and father, police said.
The bodies of both the victims have been sent for post-mortem.
In another incident, a body of an unidentified Afghan man has been found in Nowshera Kalan area.
The man was accused of forcibly taking the daughter of Abdul Rasheed to Afghanistan, police said. It appeared that the brothers of the girl had killed the man as they were missing from their home.
The body has been sent to the district hospital for autopsy.
