SAHIWAL, Aug 16: An expatriate shot down his teenaged daughter here on Friday who insisted on visiting Tokyo to see her Japanese mother there.

The incident took place in Parnami Mohalla, Karbala Road, in the limits of Fatehsher police.

Ijaz Gillani runs his business in Japan. He married a Japanese woman 25 years ago after she embraced Islam and brought her to Pakistan.

His wife shuttled between Japan and Pakistan. Reportedly, while visiting Sahiwal she would wear a veil as her husband was said to be a conservative man. The couple had two daughters, Hina and Hira.

Last week, Ijaz arrived in Pakistan to see his daughters while his wife was in Japan. Both girls were asking their father to take them to Japan. The girls were Japanese nationals because of their mother’s origin. However, Gillani was not in favour of taking them to Japan.

On Friday, both girls had an argument with their father on the same issue. Gillani got enraged, took out a pistol and shot Hira in the head who died on the spot. She was a first year student. Neighbours called Fatehsher police and Gillani surrendered himself to the police.

Hira’s body was sent to the DHQ Hospital for autopsy.

SHO Jawad told Dawn that preliminary investigation suggested that Gillani could be suffering from some mental illness.