TAXILA, June 19: A man shot dead his daughter in the name of honour in Jundo village, the Taxila police told Dawn on Tuesday.
The victim, Zaibun Nisa, had married Mr Yaqoob of the same village of her own will three years ago and shifted to some unknown place.
On Monday, when Zaibun Nisa revisited Jundo village, her father identified as Mohammad Taj in a fit of rage shot her Nisa dead and escaped from the crime scene.
After an autopsy at the THQ hospital Taxila, the police handed the body over to the family for burial.
Meanwhile, the police registered a murder case on the complaint of Yaqoob, but no arrest could be made till the filing of this news report.
