JHELUM: A man in police custody on Wednesday confessed to killing his wife in the name of honour.
He said that he had brought his wife, who was Pakistani but practiced medicine in Germany, back home to Jhelum with the intention of ending her life. He had killed her and subsequently planned to flee abroad, buying a ticket for the purpose.
Parliament had this year removed a loophole allowing people who committed murders to be exonerated if the victim’s families pardoned them. A bill approved in parliament in this regard was aimed at preventing honour killings in the country. It imposed a punishment of life imprisonment for those convicted of honour killings.
The initiative in parliament was taken after social media star was murdered by her brother earlier this year in a high profile case.
