Sisters and mum shot dead for dancing in the rain
Published: 2013 July 02 07:22:53 (5890 Views)
Two teenage sisters have been shot dead in Pakistan for allegedly dancing in the rain.
Sisters Noor Basra, 15, Noor Sheza, 16, and their mother, Noshehra, were shot dead by five gunmen after a video of the two girls enjoying the rain shower in traditional dress spread throughout their conservative northern town.
The sisters' stepbrother is now being blamed for ordering their deaths on June 23 in an effort to restore the family's "honour" six months after the video surfaced.
That 22-year-old stepbrother, Khutore, has since been arrested for carrying out the attack according to police.
"It seems that the two girls have been murdered after they were accused of tarnishing their family's name by making a video of themselves dancing in the rain," an officer confirmed to News24Online.
In the video the two girls are seen wearing traditional shalwar kameez trouser suits and green and purple headscarves.
Around them are two younger children they run after while directly outside their home in Chilas.
One girl momentarily breaks from their dance to flash a smile at the camera.
This latest tragedy comes one year after four women were executed for singing and dancing with men at a wedding in a remote village of Kohistan in northwest Pakistan.
Tribal elders ordered the women to be shot dead for allegedly tarnishing their families' names by their acts of "fornication."
Women and men dancing is a strict violation of Sharia law with about a thousand "honour killings" taking place in Pakistan annually to amend acts like this, according to women's rights group the Aurat Foundation.
Of those killings committed nearly 77 percent end in the acquittal of criminals, according to Human Rights Commission activist Tahira Abdullah.
- NYDaily
Sisters Noor Basra, 15, Noor Sheza, 16, and their mother, Noshehra, were shot dead by five gunmen after a video of the two girls enjoying the rain shower in traditional dress spread throughout their conservative northern town.
The sisters' stepbrother is now being blamed for ordering their deaths on June 23 in an effort to restore the family's "honour" six months after the video surfaced.
That 22-year-old stepbrother, Khutore, has since been arrested for carrying out the attack according to police.
"It seems that the two girls have been murdered after they were accused of tarnishing their family's name by making a video of themselves dancing in the rain," an officer confirmed to News24Online.
In the video the two girls are seen wearing traditional shalwar kameez trouser suits and green and purple headscarves.
Around them are two younger children they run after while directly outside their home in Chilas.
One girl momentarily breaks from their dance to flash a smile at the camera.
This latest tragedy comes one year after four women were executed for singing and dancing with men at a wedding in a remote village of Kohistan in northwest Pakistan.
Tribal elders ordered the women to be shot dead for allegedly tarnishing their families' names by their acts of "fornication."
Women and men dancing is a strict violation of Sharia law with about a thousand "honour killings" taking place in Pakistan annually to amend acts like this, according to women's rights group the Aurat Foundation.
Of those killings committed nearly 77 percent end in the acquittal of criminals, according to Human Rights Commission activist Tahira Abdullah.
- NYDaily
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