text: PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Authorities say a man in Pakistan, angered by a rejected marriage proposal to his cousin, has killed 10 members of his extended family after years earlier killing four others over it. 
   
   Police officer Shahid Khan says the attack happened early Sunday in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in its mountainous northwest. Khan says Gul Ahmed, the man suspected of carrying out the attack, is still on the run. 
   
   Khan says Ahmed shot dead his uncle, aunt and eight cousins — including Naveeda Bibi, who he wanted to marry. In November 2014, Khan says Ahmed also shot dead his parents and two brothers over wanting to marry her. He was never arrested by police for the earlier killings. 
   
   Violence over rejected proposals occasionally strikes Pakistan. ||||| CHARSADDA - A ruthless man, angered by a rejected marriage proposal to his cousin, gunned down his 10 relatives including his former fiancée in district Charsadda on Sunday, exactly six-month after killing his own parents and two brothers allegedly for delaying his marriage. 
   
   According to details, accused Gul Ahmed Said, 25, along with his accomplices attacked the house of his former fiancée situated at Dado Killay in Tangi tehsil at 3:00 am by opening indiscriminate fire with his AK-47 at the family members. 
   
   Police officials said it was a pre-dawn attack, when the man stormed the house and killed all 10 family members while they were asleep, saying two children and four women were among the dead. 
   
   In the attack, police added, head of the ill-fated family Hazrat Jamal, his wife Pari, four sons Shah Faisal (28), Shah Khalid (25), Irfan (15) Abu Bakar (10) and four daughters including fiancée of the accused Naveeda (26), Sumeera (21), Kulsoom (22) and Fatima (11) were killed on the spot. 
   
   The accused Gul Ahmed Said escaped from the scene after committing the crime. Locals shifted the bodies to the Tehsil Headquarters Hospital Tangi for autopsy. However, they staged a protest demonstration when male doctors conducted the postmortem of the female victims due to shortage of female staff at the hospital. 
   
   Police sources said the accused had killed his parents and two brothers for delaying his marriage with Naveeda six months ago. 
   
   Hazrat Nawab, brother of Hazrat Jamal, in the first information report (FIR) at the Mandi Police Station, said his brother had refused to make marriage of his daughter with the accused that enraged the accused and he killed the entire family. Police carried out raids in several localities to nab the killer, after registering a case in the incident. 
   
   Agencies add: Police officer Shahid Khan said accused Gul Ahmed was still on the run. 
   
   Shahid said Gul shot dead his uncle, aunt and eight cousins, including Naveeda Bibi, whom he wanted to marry. In November 2014, he said Gul had shot dead his parents and two brothers for not taking his marriage proposal to his uncle. However, some other reports said that accused had murdered his parents and brothers for refusing to pay his dowry. 
   
   District police chief Shafiullah Khan said Gul was already a fugitive wanted for the murder of his parents and two elder brothers last year. His family had refused to accept a demand by the father of his then-fiancee for a residential plot as a dowry settlement. 
   
   Gulzar Khan, another police official, said that after murdering members of his own direct family, Gul became enraged at his prospective in-laws for making the demand. 
   
   Police said they had launched an extensive search, raiding three of his suspected hideouts and tightening security at entry points to the neighbouring tribal region where he may try to seek shelter. 
   
   Marriages in Pakistan are usually arranged, and often take place between cousins. Brides’ families sometimes demand a hefty dowry as a form of insurance in case the marriage ends in divorce. ||||| CHARSADDA: A man, with the help of his accomplices, killed his fiancée and nine members of her family in a pre-dawn attack in Tangi area on Sunday, four months after murdering his own parents, brother and sister-in-law. 
   
   Villagers and police said that Gul Ahmed Syed and his accomplices barged into the house of his uncle Jamal Syed in Tajuddin Mashin Kallay village and started firing indiscriminately. 
   
   Jamal, his wife Zar Pari, sons Shah Khalid, Faisal, Irfan and Abu Bakar and daughters Naveeda, Kalsum, Sumeera and Fatima were killed. 
   
   Main suspect also killed his parents, brother and sister-in-law 
   
   Hazarat Nawab, brother of Jamal, lodged an FIR, nominating Gul Ahmed as prime accused. He told police that after hearing gunshots, he and neighbours rushed to the house of Jamal where they found bullet-riddled bodies lying in a pool of blood. 
   
   According to relatives and villagers, Gul Ahmed was engaged to his maternal cousin Naveeda and had asked his parents to arrange his marriage after he obtained a diploma in civil engineering. But his parents told him to wait till getting a job. 
   
   They said that Jamal allegedly asked Gul Ahmed to kill his parents because they did not want him to marry his daughter. Gul Ahmed shot dead his father, mother, brother and sister-in-law on Nov 28, 2014 and escaped. He was declared a proclaimed offender but never arrested. 
   
   They said that Gul Ahmed asked Jamal to arrange the wedding but the latter kept on delaying it on different pretexts. This enraged Gul Ahmed and he took the extreme step of killing his uncle and his family. 
   
   The slain people were laid to rest in their ancestral graveyard in the village. A large number of people attended the funeral. 
   
   Meanwhile, a team headed by the DSP of Tangi has been formed to investigate the incident and arrest killers. Local leaders of different political parties and tribal elders have urged police to bring the killers to justice. 
   
   AFP adds: Police said they had launched an extensive search, raiding three of Gul Ahmed’s suspected hideouts and tightening security at entry points to the neighbouring tribal region where he might try to seek shelter. 
   
   Published in Dawn, April 6th, 2015 
   
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target: – A dispute over a marriage proposal in Pakistan resulted in a staggering body count, according to police in Khyber Pakhtunkwha province. Police say Gul Ahmed, enraged by a failed engagement to his cousin Naveeda Bibi, killed his uncle, aunt, and eight cousins, including Naveeda, yesterday morning, the AP reports. The 25-year-old escaped after the mass shooting in Charsadda district, and police sources tell the Nation that he was already a fugitive for killing his parents and two brothers in November last year in what is believed to have been a dispute over a dowry settlement for the proposed marriage to his cousin. Dawn has a slightly different take on events before the massacre: The newspaper's sources say Ahmed allegedly killed his parents, a brother, and his sister-in-law on the orders of his uncle, then killed the uncle and his family after he kept delaying the wedding for assorted reasons. Ahmed reportedly had accomplices when he carried out the pre-dawn shooting, and entry points to neighboring regions to which he might try to flee have been tightened. (An engagement in neighboring India came to a less bloody end last month when the groom failed a math test.)