Pakistani woman burns daughter still living for marrying for love

LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) - The Pakistani woman was arrested Wednesday after dousing her daughter with kerosene and burning her alive, allegedly because the girl experienced defied her family in order to marry a man the lady was in love with, police said.

Police recognized Sheikh Hammad said the killing took place within the eastern city of Lahore, the country's cultural center, and that the mother had been arrested the same day.

The suspect, Parveen Rafiq, offers confessed to tying upward her 18-year-old daughter mata bokep Zeenat Rafiq to a cot right after which, with the assist of her son, Ahmar Rafiq, she poured the particular oil around the girl and set her ablaze, Hammad said.
Nearly 1, 1000 women are killed each year in so-called "honor killings" in Pakistan for allegedly violating conservative norms on love and relationship.
A schoolteacher, Maria Bibi, was assaulted and established on fire last week for refusing to marry a man twice her age group. Before she died, she managed to give a statement to the law enforcement, testifying that five attackers had broken into her home, dragged her out there to an open region, beat her and established her ablaze.

The perfect suspect in the case - the particular father of the guy she refused to get married to - and the some other four are all within custody.
Per month earlier, police arrested 13 members associated with a local tribal authorities who allegedly strangled a girl and set the girl on fire for helping the friend elope. The charred body of 17-year-old Ambreen Riasat was found within a burned van.
The daughter killed in Lahore, Zeenat Rafiq, had gotten married last month before a court magistrate in order to a motorcycle mechanic, Hasan Khan, said Hammad.

3 days ago, he said, the girl's mother and an uncle visited the girl to try to convince her to come back home plus have the marriage ceremony repeated in a conventional family function, instead associated with being labelled her entire life as someone who had "eloped. "
Khan, her husband, told the local Geo News TV station that will his bride had terrifying the worst.
"Don't let me go, they will kill me, " Khan recounted his wife informing him.

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Associated Push Writer Asif Shahzad within Islamabad contributed to this report.