A PAKISTANI farmer has killed his pregnant daughter and son-in-law for marrying against his will, police said overnight.
Iqbal Bibi, 19, and her husband Hazoor Bakhsh Ghazlani, 25, returned to her father's home Saturday, six months after their secret marriage in the rural town of Muzaffargarh in central Punjab province. But that night Ghuman Hussain shot the couple dead while they were sleeping, Muzaffargarh police chief Irshad Mutawakal said. Bibi was six months pregnant.
Police were searching for Hussain and his three accomplices, he said.
In June, a husband poured kerosene over his sleeping wife and daughter and burned them to death over suspicions that his daughter was having an affair with a neighbour in the remote town of Samasatta near central Multan city.
Government officials say about 4000 people, mostly women, have been killed in deeply conservative rural areas of Pakistan over the past four years in the name of protecting family honour.
