In a fresh incident of honour killing, a man and a woman, believed to have eloped, were shot dead in Muzaffarabad area of Azad Jammu and Kashmir on Friday, police officials said. Identified as Sarfraz Khan, 46, a labourer from Swabi but a resident of Karachi and an unidentified woman, the victims were killed by three unidentified assailants at the house of one Chaudhry Maqsood, a former employer of Sarfraz, a few days ago. The couple was strolling in the yard of Maqsood’s house around Friday noon when three assailants on a motorbike approached them. The commotion startled Maqsood’s family, who were told by the alleged attackers to stay calm no harm would come to them. Upon contacting Nazakat, it was learnt that a woman claiming to be Sarfraz’s first wife had paid him a visit, asking his whereabouts.

Source: Pakistan Today December 29, 2017 16:52 UTC