The post-mortem report of a man and woman allegedly killed in the name of honour last month in the Degari area near Quetta has been made public.

 

The post-mortem examination was conducted by police surgeons from Sandeman Hospital after a judicial magistrate in Quetta ordered the exhumation of a woman’s body.

 

According to the police surgeon Dr Ayesha, the woman was shot seven times and the man nine times. The autopsies were carried out at the Degari coal mine graveyard.

 

A leading English newspaper quoted the Police surgeon as claiming, “The woman’s name was Noor Bano Bibi, written on her arm, and she belongs to the Satakzai tribe, while the man’s name was Ihsanullah, and he is around 35 to 36 years old and was shot nine times in the chest and stomach.”

 

A video of the man and woman being shot down recently surfaced on the internet. Reportedly, both were shot dead on the orders of a local tribal jirga last month for honour in Dagari, located on the outskirts of the provincial capital.

 

The video went viral on social media, showing a group of men forcing both to get out of a vehicle and leading them into a desert, where they were shot at close range.

 

According to the First Information Report (FIR), the case was registered under Sections 302 (murder), 149 (unlawful assembly), 148 (rioting while armed with a deadly weapon), 147 (rioting) of the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC) and the Anti-Terrorism Act, 1997 against suspects on the state’s complaint at Quetta’s Hanna-Urak Police Station.

 

Meanwhile, Balochistan Chief Minister Sarfraz Bugti, speaking at a press conference in Quetta on Monday, confirmed that 11 suspects have been arrested in connection with the case, with further raids underway to apprehend others.

 

Bugti asserted that none of the accused would be spared. He also stated that the man and woman were not married to each other and that both had five to six children.

 

Reaffirming the government’s commitment, he said the state stands with the victims and assured that all efforts would be made to ensure punishments through due legal process.