Family 'kills seven months pregnant woman for honour' near Gujranwala

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LAHORE: Relatives slit the throat of a young mother, who was pregnant with her second child after she married against their will, officials said Friday, the latest in a spate of so-called “honour killings”.

Muqaddas Bibi, a resident of Butranwali near Gujranwala, married Taufiq Ahmed three years ago in defiance of her family, who considered a marriage for love ─ rather than an arranged marriage ─ shameful, police investigator Mohammad Arshad told AFP.

Bibi's ties with her family were severed after the marriage, Arshad said, but her mother and brother allegedly approached her at a clinic where she was having a check-up on Thursday and convinced her to come home, saying they accepted her decision.

Local police station chief Gohar Abbas said that when Bibi reached her parents' house, her father, brother and mother cut her throat with a knife and she died on the spot.

Bibi had a 10-month old daughter and was seven months pregnant when she was killed, he added.

An earlier version of this story appeared in Dawn, which did not mention that Muqaddas was seven months pregnant.

Abbas said that her family fled from their house after the murder in the village of Butranwali, some 75 kilometres north of Lahore.

Police are hunting for them and have already detained another relative for inciting the killing, he said.

Last week sixteen year-old Zeenat Bibi was killed in Lahore by her mother for marrying a man of her own choice in a case that sparked condemnation throughout the country.

It was swiftly followed by another killing, of a couple in Lahore who married without their family's consent. On Sunday a young girl was killed by her brother for insisting on marrying the man of her choice in Sialkot.

http://www.dawn.com/news/1265457/family-kills-seven-months-pregnant-woman-for-honour-near-gujranwala

 

[Imran Khan]

ladies run for your life its honor full pakistan

 

[unbiasedopinion]

This thread will be banned soon.

 

[SarthakGanguly]

when Bibi reached her parents' house, her father, brother and mother cut her throat with a knife and she died on the spot.

 

[GURU DUTT]

i dont get it as per islam it gives right to women to choose her potential husband and has full right to accept or reject a marrige proposal then why this honpour killing ?

 

[litman]

beasts at their best. pakistani society

 

[Rafael]

i dont get it as per islam it gives right to women to choose her potential husband and has full right to accept or reject a marrige proposal then why this honpour killing ?

Apparently, their gheirat is more important than Islamic values and their daughters / sisters.

 

[New World]

i dont get it as per islam it gives right to women to choose her potential husband and has full right to accept or reject a marrige proposal then why this honpour killing ?

yes islam say that and honor killing is not related to islam..
honor killing is happening because of inferiority complex(like what will other thinks about us) and lack of knowledge..

 

[Scharfschütze]

LAHORE: Relatives slit the throat of a young mother, who was pregnant with her second child after she married against their will, officials said Friday, the latest in a spate of so-called “honour killings”.

Muqaddas Bibi, a resident of Butranwali near Gujranwala, married Taufiq Ahmed three years ago in defiance of her family, who considered a marriage for love ─ rather than an arranged marriage ─ shameful, police investigator Mohammad Arshad told AFP.

Bibi's ties with her family were severed after the marriage, Arshad said, but her mother and brother allegedly approached her at a clinic where she was having a check-up on Thursday and convinced her to come home, saying they accepted her decision.

Local police station chief Gohar Abbas said that when Bibi reached her parents' house, her father, brother and mother cut her throat with a knife and she died on the spot.

Bibi had a 10-month old daughter and was seven months pregnant when she was killed, he added.

Abbas said that her family fled from their house after the murder in the village of Butranwali, some 75 kilometres north of Lahore.

Police are hunting for them and have already detained another relative for inciting the killing, he said.

Last week sixteen year-old Zeenat Bibi was killed in Lahore by her mother for marrying a man of her own choice in a case that sparked condemnation throughout the country.

It was swiftly followed by another killing, of a couple in Lahore who married without their family's consent. On Sunday a young girl was killed by her brother for insisting on marrying the man of her choice in Sialkot.

http://www.dawn.com/news/1265457/family-kills-seven-months-pregnant-woman-for-honour-near-gujranwala

 

[Zibago]

i dont get it as per islam it gives right to women to choose her potential husband and has full right to accept or reject a marrige proposal then why this honpour killing ?

Same reason why India has honour killings

 

[Zibago]

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The recent reporting on honour killings paint an incomplete picture,you get the idea that the choice for women on choosing their own partners is sliping away however the reality is completely opposite more women are choosing their own partners and slowly society will adapt
http://tribune.com.pk/story/557685/for-better-or-worse-court-marriages-on-the-rise/

 

[faisal6309]

Sometime ago, Saudi Arabia's national television run program on how to beat women. That's how backward we are.

 

[Zibago]

Sometime ago, Saudi Arabia's national television run program on how to beat women. That's how backward we are.

This is more of a cultural thing where parents consider it an honour issue if kids make decisions for themselves its slowly changing with rise in court marriages but even in wrst honour killings happen among Mid Eastern and South Asian communities it will take time for us to rid ourself of this menace

 

[Maj.Osmani]

i dont get it as per islam it gives right to women to choose her potential husband and has full right to accept or reject a marrige proposal then why this honpour killing ?

It is nothing to do with Islam, Hinduism or Christianity it happens because of cultural ignorance. People of this subcontinent think that ladies are their prized possessions and they have to accept all the decision made by elders specially males.

 

[shah1398]

i dont get it as per islam it gives right to women to choose her potential husband and has full right to accept or reject a marrige proposal then why this honpour killing ?

Yes Islam does give full right to a women to chose her husband as per her will and say No to anyone she is not willing to marry. There nothing as Honor Killing in Islam nor is anyone justifies so. Such issues have got nothing to do with Islam and that is why all perpetrators of such incident as criminals under PPC. This is more of communal issue which has something to do with how someone thinks. Nonetheless this is a disgusting incident which is condemnable on every level.