Overview

• Police have arrested at least 13 suspects, including tribal leader Sardar Sherbaz Khan and the female victim’s brother, in coordinated raids across Balochistan’s Deghari district.
• With no family coming forward to file a complaint, the provincial government acted as complainant and registered the case itself.
• A graphic video that went viral in mid-July shows Bano Bibi and Ahsan Ullah being led into a desert and shot dead after marrying without consent.
• Authorities have identified the victims as Bano Bibi and Ahsan Ullah and released the names of several arrested suspects.
• Human rights groups report at least 405 honour killings in Pakistan last year and call for dismantling jirga-sanctioned punishments to protect women.