Muhammad Sarwar, the killer of Punjab minister Zil-e-Huma, believes that women cannot rule over men and he shot the young woman minister due to her increasing popularity among the people, sources in the Punjab Police told Daily Times on Wednesday. The sources said that Sarwar belonged to the Ahle Hadith sect and had “his own interpretation of Islam”.
Sarwar told interrogators he was fired by a passion to purge society of women who defy Islamic customs, police sources told AFP. “I have no regrets. I killed her out of the conviction that she was leading an un-Islamic life and spreading an evil influence on other women,” Sarwar told interrogators in custody, according to a police source.
The sources said that Sarwar owned a hardware shop in Gujranwala and has nine children – four sons and five daughters. They said that Sarwar had ordered his wife and daughters to stay at home and veil their faces. They added that Sarwar was previously arrested in 2002 for murdering four prostitutes, but had been acquitted due to lack of evidence. Punjab Law Minister Basharat Raja has directed the prosecution secretary and the prosecutor general to assign a special prosecutor with the police team investigating Huma’s muder for technical assistance.
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