At least 11 suspects were arrested after a video appeared on social media by a woman and a man was shot and killed to marry their families’ wishes in a so -called honor killing, authorities said.
The couple, which were not identified, were shot to death on orders from a local tribal council last month in Balochistan, according to provincial authorities investigating after the video became viral.
Eleven suspects have been arrested, said provincial chief minister Sarfraz Bugti, in a statement Monday, hours after announcing that the location and people in the video had been identified.
آپ ڈیٹ ڈیٹ ڈیٹ ڈیٹ ڈیٹ آپ آپ آپ ا ا ا oud تما reh مث اف ANC یاس مظلbol کے س ھ کھڑی ہے ہے ہے ہے ہے ہے ہے ہے ہے ہے ہے ہے ہے ہے ہے ہے ہے ہے ہے ہے ہے ہے ہے ہے ہے ہے ہے ہے ہے ہے ہے ہے ہے ہے ہے ہے ہے ہے ہے ہے ہے ہے ہے ہے ہے ہے ہے ہے ہے ہے ہے ہے ہے ہے ہے ہے ہے ہے ہے ہے ہے ہے ہے ہے ہے ہے ہے ہے ہے ہے
– Sarfraz Bugti (@paksarfrazbugti) July 20, 2025
A case has been registered against everyone involved, Bugti said, adding that they will be prosecuted.
The video shows people in a desert, and some pickup trucks and SUVs where they had apparently been driven there.
The woman gets a copy of the Qur’an, the Muslim holy book, and she then tells a man, “Come go seven steps with me after you can shoot me.”
The man then follows her in a few steps.
A local police officer said the woman was not crying or sought grace.
“You are only allowed to shoot me. Nothing more than that,” says the woman in the regional Brahavi language, translated by the official.
It wasn’t clear what she meant by “nothing more than that”.
The man who had followed her then directed a gun at her as she turned her back to the shooter.
The woman, wrapped in a shawl, stood still when shots were fired. She remained standing after two shots, delivered from close range and fell to the ground after the third shot.
It is followed by a series of shoots. The footage then shows a bloody man lying on the ground close to the woman’s body. Then men appear to shoot on both bodies.
Reuters could not independently verify the authenticity of the video.
The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan said that by 2024 there were at least 405 “honor killings” that criticized the authorities for not having designed these crimes.
Most victims are women, and the killings are usually performed by relatives who acknowledged to defend their family’s reputation, says human rights groups.
