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Sisters Killed in Pakistan For Wanting to Help Mother

Police in Karachi are searching for a man who killed his two sisters because of their plans to seek jobs outside of their home. The killings occurred after the two sisters - 21 and 16 - challenged their brother in an argument about their intentions to seek jobs a police statement said.

The two girls told their elder brother they wanted to work in a factory and beauty parlor, to help their widowed mother manage the home. Shaukat Awan, a Karachi police officer said, "Their brother, who is absconding, objected to them working - as it was apparently against the family`s values to help parents."

The girls` brother shot them in the early morning while they were sleeping with their mother in a room after a late night argument. The killer - quite a radical conservative Muslim - brother shot each of his sisters three times, Rohina Hasan, a hospital worker said. Like many men from rural regions in Pakistan, the twenty-five-year old gas attendant considers allowing her sisters? to work outside of the home an insult.