Man murders 18 year old sister because she married a Christian

A Pakistani man has admitted murdering his sister
in an 'honour killing' because she married a
Christian man.

Mubeen Rajhu, 24, from Lahore, shot Tasleem, 18,
in the head at home in August after he discovered
his Muslim sister had defied the family and married
a Christian.

He had been taunted by co-workers who had seen
Tasleem in their neighbourhood with the man.
Rajhu, who is from a poor neighbourhood on the
northern edge of Lahore, is being held by police.

He said he had demanded that his sister swear on
the Quran that she would never marry the man.

He said:
'I told her I would have no face to show at the mill,
to show to my neighbors, so don't do it. Don't do
it. But she wouldn't listen.
'I could not let it go. It was all I could think about.

I had to kill her. There was no choice. There was
no yelling, no shouting. I just shot her dead.'
Ali Raza, a co-worker at the mill, said the taunting
of Rajhu about his sister had gone on for months.

He said:
'He used to tell us, "If you don't stop, I will kill
myself. Stop!" The guys here told him, "It would be
better to kill your sister".'
Raza said Rajhu told them he had bought a pistol
and one day in August stopped coming to work.
However, Tasleem's father Mohammed Naseer
Rajhu puts the blame on his daughter.

He said:
'My family is destroyed. Everything is destroyed
only because of this shameful girl. Even after death
I am destroyed because of her.'
The number of 'honour killings' in Pakistan has
increased over the past few years. According to
the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, 1,184
people were killed in 2015, compared to 869 in
2013.