Pak man throws kids in canal for wife’s remarriage protest

A 40-year-old Pakistani father has allegedly thrown his three children, including two daughters, into a canal after his wife objected his proposal of getting remarried.

Mumtaz Ahmad - a resident of Thatta Kalason village, some 200 kilometres from Lahore - pushed his children into canal in Okara district of Punjab province on Saturday.

While the two girls drowned, the son was rescued by the local people.

Mumtaz wanted to contract a second marriage but his first wife Sufian Bibi was not willing, police said, adding that the couple often quarrelled over the issue.

Ahmad, who had forced his wife to leave the house last week, picked up his children - daughters Maria, 12, Munazza, 8 and son Ali ? on the pretext of visiting a fair in the village on Saturday.