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Two jirga members confess to murder of newly-wed couple

By News Desk
December 12, 2017

Two people have confessed to their involvement in the brutal murder of a newly-wed couple in the name of ‘honour’ last month in the city’s Mominabad area, Geo News reported on Monday.

The couple Hadi Abdullah, 25, and Hussaini Miskeen, 21, were killed on November 22 on the orders of a jirga for marrying of their free will. Police had arrested nine suspects in the last week of November in connection with the murder.

The two suspects who confessed to their involvement on Monday in the court of judicial magistrate (West) – Ziaul Haq and Ghulam Rasool – were members of the jirga which issued the murder orders.

According to the suspects, the families of the couple also took part in the murder on the directives of a jirga on November 22. They told the court that the jirga chief and his sons first tortured the couple and then murdered them. The perpetrators then placed the bodies in gunny sacks and then paid of some gravediggers to bury them in Qaimkhani graveyard.

After hearing their confession, the court ordered to send the suspects to be sent to jail.

The unfortunate couple who belonged to a Kohistani tribe had married out of choice which offended their family members who wanted to kill them for bringing disgrace to their honour, Orangi SP Abid Baloch told Geo News.

“The parents and brothers of couple live in Nawab Colony. When I went to investigate, they confessed that in the jirga both the parties decided to kill the man and woman,” Qasim Hameed, a policeman said.

Police said that the deceased woman Miskeen’s father and brother are on the run. Hadi’s father claimed to Geo News that they had no hand in the murder and that it was Miskeen’s father who had killed the pair and then sent her family the message that he had done so. The authorities started looking for the couple on November 24 when their landlord informed police that he had found the door of their house unlocked and blood stains inside.

Through Hadi’s CNIC, the police found his family’s address and arrested his father and uncle, who confessed that they and other relatives had murdered the two on a jirga’s orders. They added that they then paid off some gravediggers to bury the couple in Qaimkhani graveyard.

The people arrested the gravediggers who led them to the grave. The bodies were ultimately exhumed and sent to Abbasi Shaheed Hospital. This is the second ‘honour killing’ reported from the metropolis in recent months. In September, a teenage couple who tried to elope was electrocuted to death by family members carrying out orders given by a jirga.