Pakistani man kills own sister for insisting on marrying a man of her choice;Transgender woman in Pakistan shot

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A Pakistani girl has been killed by her brother for insisting on marrying a man of her choice, police said Tuesday, marking the country’s latest gruesome “honour killing” following a string of incidents that have sparked national outrage. Anum Ishaq masih, in her late teens and from a Christian family, was murdered while she slept in the city of Sialkot southwest of Lahore in the early hours of Sunday.

“Saqib Ishaq masih, 23, killed his sister by smashing her head with a wooden log while she was sleeping,” Rana Zulfi qar, the officer in-charge of the police station in Sialkot told AFP. “The girl, named Anum Ishaq masih, was in her late teens and wanted to marry a Christian neighbour but the family was against the marriage,” he said.

Rana said the girl was insisting on Saturday that she would marry the man, infuriating her sibling. The brother has since been arrested and charged with murder after the girl’s father filed a case against him. Shamoon Gill, a Christian activist, told AFP that honour killings were very rare among the Christian community in Pakistan. Last week sixteen year-old Zeenat Bibi was set on fi re in Lahore by her mother for marrying a man of her own choice. Bibi’s mother later confessed to the crime. (AFP)

Pak ‘woman’ shot: A transgender woman in Pakistan was shot for refusing to have sex with attackers who broke into her home, in the latest in a series of assaults on trans people, police said. The victim, in her mid-twenties, suffered a gunshot wound to her thigh after three armed men broke into her home in the northwestern town of Mansehra on Monday and tried to rape her. “They opened fire on her and wounded her on refusing to have … and then fled the area,” police official Ammar Niaz told the Thomson Reuters Foundation by phone from Mansehra, in the socially conservative province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. “We are conducting raids to arrest the attackers. We hope to arrest them soon,” he said late on Tuesday, adding that the victim had been discharged from hospital and was now recovering. The incident — the latest in a string of attacks targeting Pakistan’s transgender community in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province — sparked protests in Mansehra on Monday. (RTRS)

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