Irshad Ahmed after encouraging his wife Shabana Naz and their youngest son to attend a wedding, killed the three poor girls, twins Chashman and Aman aged seven and a five-year-old Fiza, on Sunday night.
Shabana only took one of her daughters, the youngest aged two, after refusing to leave her behind at their home in Chak Jumra town, around 135 miles northwest of Lahore.
A neighbour told her what had happened later: she returned, Shabana discovered the bodies of the three little girls lying in the bed - and their father gone.
Shabana revealed how her husband had believed his daughters to be worthless, claiming they would mean the family would 'die of hunger'.
The heartless father had threatened to kill them before.'He said, "I do not want to educate them and I don't want to waste money on their upbringing.
My only son is my future hope and one day I will vanish these four problems",' the 35-year-She added: 'My husband never gave my daughters a penny of pocket money when they went to school.
All their school fees, uniform and expenses for books were paid by my parents.'Shabana said things had got worse since the birth of her youngest daughter.'He always said that we all would die of hunger as we have four daughters and it's a big expense of their education and then marrying them.'
For the mother, this is no comfort, of course. Shaba is now calling for her husband - who she claims was addicted to weed - to be hanged.'I want the same punishment for my husband which he chose for my innocent daughters,' she said.
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