RAWALPINDI, Aug 16: A man killed his younger sister after finding ‘love text messages’ on her cellphone sent by an unknown person.

The 20-year-old woman, who lived in the Pyal village of Rawat, had recently appeared in her B.A. examination.

Police said after seeing the text messages on her cellphone, her elder brother Anwarul Haq, a taxi driver, asked her about the man. However, she told him that she had never seen or met the man.

“Though she tried to convince her brother that she had not seen the person, he forced her to call the man to the house on Independence Day as he wanted to see him,” Asghar Ali, a police sub-inspector, who is leading the investigation into the murder case, told Dawn.

He said though she invited the caller to her house, he did not turn up.

The girl’s brother got provoked on Friday after he noticed that his sister was still receiving text messages and responding to the phone calls of the man.

“First, he quarreled with his sister and then pulled out a pistol and shot her dead,” the IO said. He added that the police were searching for the alleged murderer who escaped from the scene after committing the crime.

The police said the elder sister of the deceased was a law graduate and the alleged killer a matriculate.

According to the police investigating officer, during the preliminary investigation it emerged that the exchange of text messages and phone calls had started about three months back.

“The deceased girl only knew that the man was from Attock,” he added.