The Supreme Court directed the police on Friday to arrest all those involved in the "honour" killing of two girls in Shikarpur.A three-judge bench, headed by Chief Justice Tassaduq Hussain Jillani, was seized with the suo motu
...a legal term, from the Latin. Roughly translated it means
I saw what you did, you bastard...
proceedings against a jirga that was held for settling a dispute over honour killings.
According to media reports, PML-F MNA Ghous Bakhsh Mahar had presided over the jirga to settle the dispute between two tribes. Both parties had accepted the jirga decision, but no one was punished for killing the girls, who were paternal cousins.
The bench, also comprising Justices Khilji Arif Hussain and Amir Mohammedan Hani, ordered the police to conduct transparent investigation into the incident and submit a report within a week.
The investigation officer informed the court that the father of one of the girls, Abdullah Mahar, had lodged an FIR against his brother Sanaullah Mahar who, according to him, had killed the girls over some domestic dispute.
The IO said efforts were under way to arrest the prime suspect.