DERA MURAD JAMALI: A man on Monday axed his daughter to death and injured a villager in the name of honour in Nasirabad district.

Police said the incident took place in Goth Mohammad Amin in the Khan-Kot area where the man identified as Sabir Ali allegedly hacked his daughter to death and injured her friend.

The police rushed to the site after receiving information about the incident and shifted the body and injured to a nearby hospital.

“It is the murder in the name of honour,” a police officer said, adding that the police managed to arrest the suspect.

Published in Dawn, March 30th, 2021

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