Couple, relatives arrested for honour killing

TOBA TEK SINGH: A couple and their three relatives were arrested for killing their unmarried daughter for honour in Chak 188-RB, Nallay-Wala Faisalabad on Tuesday.

Complainant Chak Jhumra Station House Officer Ali Ikram said in his FIR, registered under sections 302, 311, 109, 147, and 149 of the Pakistan Penal Code, that upon reaching the village after receiving information about the murder of Laiba Naureen, 19, locals informed him that parents Zulfiqar and Nazia along with three others, had first tortured her for insisting on marrying a youth of her choice and then poisoned her to death before burying her.

When the police arrested the five suspects, they confessed to killing her.

MURDERED: A Khanewal municipal committee employee was murdered on Tuesday in Khanewal.

Source: Dawn