The young women, aged 20 and 24, traveled from Catalonia to Pakistan last week to try to undo the pact their own parents had agreed with their uncles. Pakistani police have arrested six relatives of the young women who took part in the crimes.
Two Pakistani sisters living in . lived Terrassa (Barcelona) were murdered for their relatives in the east Pakistanafter the young women filed for divorce from their cousins, whom they had forcibly married, and refused to let them go to Catalonia.
The 20- and 24-year-old sisters were originally from Gujrat, in Pakistan’s eastern Punjab province, where Friday night “they were tortured, strangled and shot in their sleep“As reported by a local police spokesman, Nauman Hassan. Six men have been arrested so far in connection with the murders, including cousins and uncles of the victims. six of the suspected killers The suspects were arrested on Tuesday, during the 24 hours following the event. According to the initial investigation, the sisters are honor killings,” Hassan said.
The spokesperson assured that after falling into a “trap” the young women had returned to Pakistan on Thursday, and their relatives tried to get the sisters to intercede for their cousins before Spanish authorities, with whom they spoke online. were married. “more than a year” so that they “could emigrate to Spain”.
“The sisters (…) wanted to divorce after the arranged marriage and both wanted to marry others,” concluded Hassan, noting that three more suspects have not been arrested, and the girls’ father “is still in Spain.” The mother has refused to charge the killers – her own relatives – for which police have filed charges.
Sources from the Spanish embassy in Islamabad have indicated that the sisters are Pakistanis with residence permits in Spain, where they resided in Catalonia. “Because they are not Spanish citizens, the consular service of the embassy cannot be activated,” they warned.
Such cases are not isolated, however, and as diplomatic sources have stated, the Spanish embassy has responded in recent years to several requests for help from Spanish citizens of Pakistani origin they had kidnapped.
The ones known as “honour killing” They are common in South Asia. According to data from the NGO Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP), “there were 478 honor killings in the country last year alone.” Between 2004 and May 2018, that number rose to 17,628 cases, although it is thought that the actual number could be much higher due to the lack of complaints, especially when it comes to family members.
The Pakistani government passed a law in 2016 that prohibits pardons from the relatives of victims in this type of crime, a legal loophole that frees many men after killing a woman, usually a sister or wife. However, human rights groups and activists warn that the law has had little impact on curbing these crimes.
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Source: EITB
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