LAHORE: Pakistani police investigating the murder of a woman bludgeoned to death outside a court have arrested five more men in connection with the brutal killing, a senior official said yesterday.
Farzana Parveen was killed last Tuesday outside the High Court in the eastern city of Lahore by more than two dozen attackers armed with bricks, including numerous relatives, for marrying against her family’s wishes.
“We have arrested five more people in this case,” Umer Riaz Cheema, a senior police official investigating the murder said.
“With this the total number of the arrested people comes to 10 including Parveen’s father. However, the newly detained five men aren’t among the directly accused killers,” he said.
Parveen’s husband Mohammad Iqbal claims more than two dozen people were responsible for her killing. Parveen’s two brothers, two cousins and a female relative are still at large.
Scribe assaulted in Pakistan
MULTAN: A Pakistani journalist working with the country’s largest media group has been badly beaten up, police said yesterday, the latest attack on media workers in the country.
Zafar Aaheer, resident editor of the top-selling Urdu-language newspaper Jang, was attacked when he left his office in the southern city of Multan early Sunday.
Jang is part of the group that owns the country’s widely watched Geo TV and is currently at odds with the powerful military.
In April unidentified attackers shot and injured senior anchor Hamid Mir, who hosted a popular talk show on Geo TV, in the southern city of Karachi.
The TV station became embroiled in a row with the military after it aired allegations that the powerful Inter-Services Intelligence was behind Mir’s shooting.
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