Pakistani Man Shoots Elder Sister Dead for Voting

20-year-old Danish Ali, an angry young man shot his elder sister dead because she voted in Pakistani local elections after he had forbidden her to do so, Daily Mail reports.

Ali was reportedly angry that his 32-year-old sister, Asifa Noreen, a schoolteacher, had defied his orders and cast her vote; he shot her dead because of this. Police say that the murder occurred in the town of Taxila 25 kilometres (15 miles) west of Islamabad on Tuesday.

A local police official, Naeem Abbas said,

“According to a report filed by the deceased’s father, Ali shot Noreen with his pistol and she died on the spot at their home.”

Police were still hunting for Ali, who took to his heels after the ugly act.

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Women’s turnout is reportedly weak in most conservative rural parts of Pakistan because of male perceptions that woman’s place is in the home. However, incidents of women being killed for voting are said to be rare, although hundreds of Pakistani women are murdered each year in cases of domestic violence or on the grounds of defending family “honour”.

A campaign group that works to improve the lives of women in Pakistan’s conservative and patriarchal society, the Aurat Foundation reports that more than 3,000 women have been killed in such attacks since 2008.