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Pakistani mother burns daughter to death
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A Pakistani mother has been arrested on suspicion of burning her 16-year-old daughter alive for marrying without family consent in the latest so-called "honour killing" to shock the country.
Perveen Bibi, tied her daughter,
Zeenat, to a bed, doused her with fuel and then set fire to her in Lahore,
police said.
Family members stopped neighbours
from entering the house as the girl screamed for help, said Nighat Bibi, who
lives nearby.
As her daughter burned, Perveen
Bibi ran into the street shouting that she had killed the teen for bringing
shame on her family.
The police eventually arrived and
found the charred body near a staircase.
Zeenat married a man named Hasan
Khan on May 29, police said. Khan's ethnicity - he is an ethnic Pashtun, while
Zeenat was a Punjabi - was the main cause of the family's disapproval,
according to the woman's family.
Mr Khan, told reporters the two
had been "in love since our school days" but the family had rejected
several marriage proposals, forcing them to elope last month.
"After living with me for
four days following our marriage, her family contacted us and promised they
would throw us a proper wedding party after eight days. Then we would be able
live together.
"Zeenat was unwilling to go
back to her home and told me that she would be killed by her family, but later
agreed when one of her uncles guaranteed her safety.
"After two days, she called
me and said that her family had gone back on their word and asked me to come to
get her, but I told her to wait for the promised eight days. Then, she was
killed."
Sheikh Hammad, a local police
official, said Perveen Bibi had confessed to killing her daughter with the help
of her son Ahmar. He quoted the woman as saying "I don't have any
regrets."
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Naseem Bibi, Perveen's younger
sister, told AFP: "After killing her daughter, Perveen went out on the
street, took off her shawl and started beating herself on her chest, shouting:
'People! I have killed my daughter for misbehaving and giving our family a bad
name.'"
"My sister declared a long
time ago she would not allow her daughter to marry a Pashtun," she said.
Hundreds of
women are killed every year in Pakistan - often by their own family members
- for violating the country's conservative norms regarding love and marriage.
Sex outside of marriage is seen by conservative Pakistanis as a stain on the
honour of the woman's entire family, one that can only be removed by killing
her.
Last week a schoolteacher, Maria
Bibi, was set on fire for refusing to marry a man twice her age. The prime
suspect in the case - the father of the man she refused to marry - and the
other four are in custody.
A month earlier, police arrested
13 members of a local tribal council who allegedly strangled a girl and set her
on fire for helping a friend elope. The charred body of 17-year-old Ambreen
Riasat was found in a burned van.
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