ISLAMABAD: Women's rights activists on Friday condemned the murder of a whistleblower in a notorious"honour killing" case that has shone a years-long spotlight on female victims - and the men who defend them - in deeply patriarchal Pakistan.
He was shot five times on a busy road and died on the spot, Abdul Aziz Afridi, a senior police official, told AFP."The perpetrators of this heinous crime will be brought to justice," provincial information minister Shaukat Yousafzai told AFP. Rights activists participating in a march to mark International Women's Day on Friday condemned Kohistani's shooting.
The men and women had allegedly been in the room together, in defiance of strict tribal customs that separate men and women at weddings - though the video does not show them together.Kohistani is believed to have been related to some of the men in the video. His entire family were banished from Kohistan as a result.
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