Pakistan dad ‘shot dead’ daughter to preserve family honour after she took a photo with boys

The girl, said to be aged around 16 or 17, was fired at multiple times from a close range inside her family home in the northern town of Kohistan on Friday, local police chief Mukhtiar Ahmed said.

Authorities said the woman had been killed after a jirga, a tribal body of village elders who settle disputes according to centuries-old traditions, had ordered that she and a friend, who also appeared in the picture, be killed.

“Some people had uploaded pictures of the two girls,” said Masood Khan, deputy superintendent of police in the Kolai-Palas district.

“They shot dead one of them while police rescued the second one,” he said, referring to villagers.

Ahmed said police teams were conducting raids to arrest the members of the jirga, including local clerics.

The videos and photographs uploaded on the social media appeared to be doctored, he said.