Pakistan Daughter Shot After Dog Attack - Parents

They made dogs run after her and bite her then she was shot dead.

A 17-year-old Pakistani village girl was falsely accused of immorality and had dogs set on her as a punishment before she was shot dead, the girl's parents said on Monday.

Gul Sher, father of the girl, Tasleem Solangi, demanded justice for the killing of his daughter after he said a council in their village in the southern province of Sindh falsely accused her of having sex with a man.

"They made dogs run after her and bite her then she was shot dead," Sher told reporters in Karachi, the capital of Sindh province.

Traditional tribal codes still hold sway in many backward, conservative parts of Pakistan and they often stipulate brutal punishment and death for women deemed to have acted immorally and besmirched the honour of their family or tribe.

But Sher said his daughter was killed because of a land dispute with some relatives. He said he had been trying unsuccessfully to get justice since her murder in March.

"I demand justice from the government for the brutal killing of my daughter. They made a false case against her," he said.

District police chief Bashir Memon said the girl had been killed as a result of a family dispute but he denied dogs had been set on her before she was shot.

"We have a postmortem report that says there were no dog bite wounds on her body, only three firearm wounds," Memon said.

He said a suspect had been arrested and his trial had begun.

Human rights groups say hundreds of women are killed in the name of "honour" every year in Pakistan.