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

[Irfan Baloch]

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.

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council of Islamic Ideology recently termed honour killing unislamic and unconstitutional
lets see how the family is treated by the law

ladies run for your life its honor full pakistan

but dont run to India or Afghanistan.. they are also full of honour.
run to the beghairat West and save your lives

 

[faisal6309]

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

Honor killing is an act by a fool on the basis of his beliefs that is mixture of both religion and culture. For example, Islam command women to stay at home [33:33]. But then even Muhammad asked Fatima if she wants to marry Ali, when marriage of Fatima and Ali is said to be god's order.

People use phrases they like. They see their parents deciding things in their life till death. They start to think now it is their duty to do the same. But it looks like this generation is very resistant and it can be good as well as bad in different circumstances.

People don't like change. That is why they hate when this generation make their own choices. That is what lead to honor killing. Also you can add cousin marriage for strengthening family relations.

 

[Irfan Baloch]

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 Mr innocent

its called Local Custom or in Punjab its called Gairat and Naak of the Baradari.
Islam is irrelevant here. both Indian and Pakistani village justice also sometimes makes the victims walk naked or get raped as a punishment too..

tell you what.. go to an Indian village and demand the hand of a village gal from a Jaat.. then let me know the outcome

 

[GURU DUTT]

yes Mr innocent

its called Local Custom or in Punjab its called Gairat and Naak of the Baradari.
Islam is irrelevant here. both Indian and Pakistani village justice also sometimes makes the victims walk naked or get raped as a punishment too..

tell you what.. go to an Indian village and demand the hand of a village gal from a Jaat.. then let me know the outcome

lolzz sirji yahan ek ne to jaan le rakhee hai aap kehte ho doosri ka haath maange ko