Pakistani Man held over ‘honour killing’

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A Pakistani man who used a kitchen knife to murder his sister told AFP on Thursday he fl ew into a rage after catching her using a mobile phone, the latest “honour killing” in the deeply patriarchal country.

Hayat Khan, aged around 20, attacked his sixteen-year-old sister Sumaira at their home in the low-income Orangi Town neighbourhood of Karachi on Wednesday, senior police offi cer Azfar Mahesar said. He later threw her out of the house where she lay on the steps as neighbours gathered to help. A woman using a mobile phone, in particular to speak to a male non-relative, is seen as highly taboo among conservative elements in Pakistani society.

Speaking to AFP from his jail cell, Hayat said: “She was talking to someone at the entrance of the house, I asked her who was there and she replied why are you bothered it’s none of your business, I am free to talk to anyone. “I just wanted to scare her off with the knife but it hurt her fatally,” he said, adding: “Of course it is very sad, I wish I could also die.” Mobile phone footage shot by an unknown onlooker showed several men and boys standing around Sumaira, who was seen dressed in a red tunic and orange headscarf and draped in a blanket as she writhed in pain. (AFP)

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