Two teenage girls killed in Waziristan over mobile video

Two teenage girls were killed in the name of ‘honour’ in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa border district  after a short mobile video of victims with a young man surfaced on social media.

The Razmak police station in North Waziristan on Friday registered a First Information Report (FIR) of the incident and launched an investigation, Dawn News reported.

The murders incident took place on May 14 around 2pm at Shaam Plain Garyom, a border village of North and South Waziristan in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

“A confirmed report was received that two girls aged 16 and 18 were killed in the name of honour by their paternal cousin, whose name and address is not known, in Shaam Plain Garyom,” read the FIR registered on behalf of a station house officer.

It said the reason behind the killings was believed to be a video which shows a young man recording himself with three young girls in a secluded area outdoors.

The video was believed to be shot nearly a year ago and most probably went viral on social media a few weeks ago.

The incident comes nearly eight years after the infamous 2012 Kohistan video scandal, in which three women were killed for honour after a grainy video showing them singing and clapping while two boys danced had gone viral in the ultra-conservative and remote district of Kohistan.