A man who was completely vexed with his sister for doing what he considered a terrible thing, has shown his anger in a tragic manner.
Saqib Masih
Saqib Masih, a Pakistani man was arrested after he beat his teenage sister to death, smashing her skull with a large wooden stick in front of their home at noon.
According to CNN, he did what he did because he didn't want her to marry her boyfriend.
Police revealed that the murdered girl, Anum Masih, 19, was killed by her brother Saqib Masih, 21, on June 10.
"She wanted to marry, we didn't agree on this wedding. We were arguing," Saqib told CNN from a police cell in the city of Sialkot. "She was my sister. I didn't mean to kill her. I've been crying ever since. She was my sister."
Anum Masih, the murdered girl
Yousuf Masih, the victim's father, said that he was against the match because the two families were related.
"They started arguing. He hit her with the stick, he has no intention to kill her," the father told CNN. "Things just got out of hand, he reacted in anger. In the end I guess it did become an issue of honour."
He added that he filed the police report against his own son.
The girl's mother, Sajilia Masih
Nawaz Sharif, Pakistan's Prime Minister, has vowed to tackle the problem of honor killings, but critics say few concrete steps have been taken.
"There is no honor in honor killing, in fact there can be nothing more degrading than to engage in brutal murder and to refer to it as honor," he said in a press statement five months ago.
The girl's father, Yousuf Masih,
The mother Sajilia Masih, told CNN, she wasn't home when the murder took place. She has two other children, who weren't involved in the incident.
"He had no intention to kill her. I guess what happened, happened. I want my son to be released, he is my child after all." she said.
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