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2nd honour killing in Pak days after Oscar on subject

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Press Trust of India Lahore
Last Updated : Mar 02 2016 | 6:32 PM IST
A man shot dead his two sisters in Pakistan's second honour killing in as many days after a filmmaker from the country won an Oscar for a documentary film on such murders.
Mohammad Asif committed the double murder in Noorshah village of Sahiwal district of Punjab province, police said today.
He had murdered his mother about five years ago but was pardoned by the family.
Police said that Asif shot his sisters during the night and fled away.
"We have launched a manhunt but he is still at large," police official Akram Sahi said.
On Monday, a father shot dead his 18-year-old daughter in Lahore after she failed to tell him where she had been for several hours, ironically on a day when Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy's documentary won an Oscar in Los Angles.
"A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness", that secured Chinoy her second Oscar ever, is about a girl shot in the head by her father and brothers, and thrown into a river. She, however, survived to tell the award-winning story.
Honour-killing is a big issue in Pakistan and every year over 1,000 girls and women fall victims.

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First Published: Mar 02 2016 | 6:32 PM IST

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