Overview

• A May video showed tribal enforcers shooting Bano Bibi and Ehsan Ullah at close range in a Balochistan desert after accusing them of an illicit affair.
• Police have arrested 14 individuals, including tribal leader Sardar Sherbaz Khan and the woman’s brother, and say more persons captured in the footage remain at large.
• The first information report formally identifies the victims and charges the suspects under Pakistan’s criminal code rather than tribal custom.
• Human Rights Commission of Pakistan and Chief Minister Sarfraz Bugti have condemned the killings as cold-blooded murder and demanded full legal accountability.
• The case has reignited tension between tribal jirga authority and state law over honour killings and drawn calls for systemic reform to protect women.