Ghulam Abbas, father of the two sisters living in Terrassa murdered in Pakistan in May last year, was arrested this Wednesday by the Mossos d'Esquadra and the National Police in a joint operation. The investigative court number 3 of the co-capital of Vallès Occidental ordered the arrest of the father for alleged involvement in the family plot that ended the lives of women aged 24 and 21. The news advanced by the newspaper El País also indicates that the police search the apartment where the parent lives in the co-capital of Vallès Occidental.
Investigations suggest that he may have been involved in tricking Arooj and Aneesa into returning to the Gujrat region, in East Asia, with the excuse that their mother had fallen ill. Once there, both would have refused to bring their husbands to Europe, two of their cousins with whom they contracted forced marriages four years ago, forced by the family and against their will. In fact, they wanted to separate.
Since this double femicide became known in May of last year, the Mossos d'Esquadra began to question relatives and acquaintances of the two sisters residing in Terrassa, including their father, brothers and an uncle to determine their alleged involvement. in the facts.
Pakistani police explained that the sisters were victims of an "honor killing" by their family; they were first tortured by members of their family and then fatally shot in the head while they slept.
The mother, Azra Bibi, used as bait by the family, witnessed the murder, although isolated and locked in a room, she could not do anything to save her daughters. A few days after the events, she returned to Terrassa after a rescue operation by the Pakistani police. Before the Mossos she pointed to her son Shehryar as the main person responsible for the plan.
The court is now trying to clarify if the father helped design the macabre plan and if he knew the future that awaited his daughters. The deaths of Arooj and Aneesa Abbas shocked Terrassa and the Pakistani community present in Catalonia. The city council declared three days of mourning for that tragic event.
