Pak Daughter Shoots Father

A teenage girl in Pakistan's Punjab province allegedly shot and killed her father for scolding her for having a relationship with a boy in her neighbourhood, police said on Tuesday. A 16-year-old daughter of Muhammad Shabbir of Bilal Town in Faisalabad, 100 km from Lahore, allegedly had a relationship with a boy named Muhammad Basharat.

TWENTY-SEVEN. That's the number of bullets a police guard fired into my father before surrendering himself with a sinister smile to the policemen around him. Salmaan Taseer, governor of Punjab, Pakistan's most populous province, was assassinated on Tuesday -- my brother Shehryar's 25th birthday -- outside a market near our family home in Islamabad....

A teenage girl in Pakistan's Punjab province allegedly shot and killed her father for scolding her for having a relationship with a boy in her neighbourhood, police said on Tuesday. A 16-year-old daughter of Muhammad Shabbir of Bilal Town in Faisalabad, 100 km from Lahore, allegedly had a relationship with a boy named Muhammad Basharat.

TWENTY-SEVEN. That's the number of bullets a police guard fired into my father before surrendering himself with a sinister smile to the policemen around him. Salmaan Taseer, governor of Punjab, Pakistan's most populous province, was assassinated on Tuesday -- my brother Shehryar's 25th birthday -- outside a market near our family home in Islamabad....