Brother beats his sister to death Rare Christian honour killing in Pakistan

A teenage girl has been killed by her brother in Pakistan for insisting on marrying a man of her choice.

Anum Ishaq Masih, in her late teens and from a Christian family, was murdered while she slept in Sialkot, south-west of Lahore. Rana Zulfiqar, the officer in-charge of the city’s police station, told media that Saqib Ishaq Masih, 23, had ‘smashed his sister’s head with a wooden log’.

Rana said the girl was insisting on Saturday that she would marry a Christian neighbour, infuriating her sibling. Her brother has since been arrested and charged with murder after the girl’s father filed a case against him. Hundreds of women are murdered by their relatives in Pakistan each year on the pretext of defending what is seen as family honour, and this latest incident follows a spate of recent attacks.