Summary Suspect told the police that he murdered his wife for her 'suspected infidelity'.
LAHORE (Dunya News/AFP) – An implacable man on Wednesday strangled his wife to death in the name of ‘honour’ in Lahore’s Shera Kot area.
Police personnel told that Sughra was strangled by her husband, Ishaq, inside their apartment at Al-Khayyam Road. The suspect was later arrested by the police and he ‘confessed’ to have killed his wife.
During investigation, suspect told the police that he murdered his wife for her ‘suspected infidelity’. The officers shifted the body to hospital for post mortem.
Ishaq, father of two children, married Shughra nine years ago.
The incident came as Pakistan celebrates its second Oscar win, courtesy of filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy whose documentary based on the heinous crime won the prestigious award.
“A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness” — a film telling the story of a rare survivor of such murders — won the Academy Award for best documentary short at the star-studded Hollywood ceremony on Sunday.
Obaid Chinoy met Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif recently, turning a global spotlight on honour killings in the country.
Hundreds of women are murdered by their relatives in Pakistan each year on the pretext of defending family “honour”.
Pakistan amended its criminal code in 2005 to prevent men who kill female relatives escaping punishment by pardoning themselves as an “heir” of the victim.
But it was left to a judge s discretion to decide whether to impose a prison sentence when other relatives of the victim forgive the killer — a loophole which critics say remains exploited.
Sharif last month vowed to eradicate the “evil” of honour killings in Pakistan.
