LAHORE: Pakistani police were Wednesday hunting a man who shot dead both his sisters in an apparent “honor killing,” days after a Pakistani director won an Oscar for a documentary on such murders.

Mohammad Asif had previously murdered his mother four or five years ago, according to police, before being pardoned at the time by his family and set free.

The latest killings occurred in the village of Noorshah in Sahiwal district, in the central province of Punjab

“Mohammad Asif, who is in his late twenties, shot his two sisters late last night because he doubted their characters and was against their lifestyle,” local police official Allah Ditta Bhatti told AFP.

He said the sisters died on the spot while Asif fled.

“He had killed his mother around four or five years ago and was set free after his family pardoned him,” Bhatti said.

The incident was confirmed by other officials at the local police station.

On Monday a father in the eastern city of Lahore shot dead his 18-year-old daughter because she could not account for where she had been for about five hours.

“A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness,” a film telling the story of a rare survivor of such murders, won the Academy Award for best documentary short at the star-studded Hollywood ceremony on Sunday.