Man butchers his four daughters in Pakistan_(married on her own choice)
Khalej Times ^ | 12.25.05
ISLAMABAD - A labourer slit throats of his four daughters in Pakistan’s eastern Punjab province when his eldest daughter married of her own choice, a news report said on Sunday.
The Daily Times said Nazeer Ahmed, a resident of Burewala town of Punjab, committed the crime late Saturday while girls were sleeping at home.
“He brought his married daughter Muqaddas Bibi, 25, home from her in-laws. They had dinner and when all girls slept, he butchered them with sharp knife,” senior police officer, Mukhtar Iqbal Tikka told the newspaper.
Tikka said the labourer killed his unmarried daughters who were 6, 10 and 12 years old out of fear that they would follow their elder sister.
Ahmed told police that his eldest daughter tarnished the family’s honour by having married on her own choice.
For human rights groups, violence against women is a growing concern in the male-dominated Pakistani society, where females are killed by their male relatives for disgracing their family’s honour by marrying of her own choice rather than accept an arranged mating.
Daughters and sisters are also given in marriage to rivals for settlement of disputes.
Even though President General Pervez Musharraf publicly declared ”honour killing” a crime, the independent Human Rights Commission of Pakistan says more than 750 such murders occurred within last 18 months.
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