The two sisters, aged 21 and 24, had gone to the Asian country with their mother to undo their parents’ marriages.
Two sisters of Pakistani descent and residents of the city of Tarrasa in Barcelona were tortured and murdered in their country last Friday after they rejected a marriage arranged by their own parents with their cousins.
The event took place in Punjab, an eastern province of Pakistan where Gujrat is located, the original city of the two young women, aged 21 and 24. As reported by ‘La Vanguardia’, the two women moved with their mother to their native region to try to cut ties with their cousins because they disagreed. For this, they were convinced that it was necessary to do this procedure in person. After that, however, they fell into a trap.
At least six men from her family tortured the two young women to pressure them to give up their ideas and sign the necessary papers to formalize both unions. The aim was for their partners to be able to enter Spain. As they got no results, they were strangled and shot.
His mother was locked up in a house and did not report this ‘honour killing’, which is very common in these cases. It was the Pakistani police themselves who were aware of the events. He arrested six people while he searched for a seventh who could be involved in this murder, which was understood as a way to protect family pride in countries in the Middle East, India and Pakistan. According to the United Nations Population Fund, about 5,000 women are killed every year for ‘honour crimes’.
Source: La Verdad
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