Pakistani man arrested for killing 2 teenage girls over leaked video

Islamabad, May 21

Police in Pakistan’s North Waziristan has arrested a person suspected to have killed two teenage ladies within the title of ‘honour’ after a brief cell video of them with a younger man surfaced on-line, the media reported on Thursday.

The ladies have been gunned down on May 14 in Shamplan Garyam village after their ‘objectionable’ video footage went viral on social media, stated the Dawn information report.

On Wednesday, North Waziristan district police officer Shafiullah Gandapur stated the suspected killer, Mohammad Aslam, who was a cousin of the 2 ladies, was held throughout a raid in an unidentified location.

He had gone into hiding after the murders.

Earlier within the day, a central character of the incident, Umer Ayaz, confessed earlier than a neighborhood court docket that he had recorded the video.

A senior police official stated Ayaz informed the court docket that he used the cell phone of his pal, Fida Wazir, who had already been held by the police.

Meanwhile, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Inspector General of Police Sanaullah Abbasi introduced money reward and commendation certificates for police officers over arrests within the honour killing case.

Besides Aslam, the police police have arrested 4 suspects within the case—Ayaz, Fida Mohammad, father of one of many ladies, Zadwal Khan, and the woman’s cousin, Roohuddin.

The police claimed that the household of the deceased had stored the killings a secret, so the related station home officer registered the FIR because the complainant, reviews Dawn information.

The space the place the incident came about is far-flung and regarded dangerous when it comes to safety.

The incident comes almost eight years after the 2012 Kohistan video scandal, through which three ladies have been killed for honour after a grainy video displaying them singing and clapping whereas two boys danced had gone viral within the ultra-conservative and distant district. — IANS