India, March 10 -- A woman and her infant child were shot dead in the name of 'honour' in the early hours of Monday in Pakistan's Mardan city, media reports said.

Rustam Station House Officer (SHO) Mohammad Daud Khan confirmed to Dawn News that the incident took place in the Taja Banda area, saying that a woman, her one-year-old son and her father-in-law were allegedly killed by the cousins of the woman.

SHO Khan said that a first information report (FIR) was lodged at the Rustam police station on the complaint of the woman's mother-in-law, Nasim Bibi.

Bibi told police that she was sleeping in her room when she heard someone jumping into the house, prompting her to rush out.

"I saw armed men, Abuzar and Bakhtiar, enter the room of my ...