A man has killed his daughter son two grandchildren and two relatives in East Pakistan to avenge the affront which meant that she decided to marry for love against the family will, police said. The incident occurred in the village last night Tara Singh , in the rural district of Dipalpur and very close to the Indian border, where the alleged offender took to collect the debt of "honor" the first visit from his daughter since she fled five years ago her husband. After learning that he had returned to the village, the father, identified by police as Shokat Ali, came together to six neighbors for which considered because of their dishonor and after recognizing the street opened fire. In addition to the young, the two sons of the couple , husband and two brothers who had accompanied this, according to the head of the police investigation, Mohammed Nawaz, who acknowledged that there is not been no arrest in the case. The so-called "honor crimes" are very common in South Asia and usually involve males of a family who come what they consider an affront that contravenes moral conservative family of local societies. A European expert on gender issues who has lived in Pakistan for years said that the Indian subcontinent many men believe that "the honor of the men is in the body of women" and that must be defended at any cost. According to the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP), almost a thousand women -hundred of them minors, were killed last year in the country for this type of crime, though the agency warns that the number may be higher because many cases go unnoticed. One recent case happened a month ago in the northern town of Chilas, when a young man killed his two sisters aged 17 and 20 years and the mother of these girls after they were recorded with a mobile phone while playing in a downpour. The assailant, according to police, considered a grave dishonor that two female relatives that several neighbors had seen the video of the two girls jumping and joking in the rain.
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