{"id":220760,"date":"2016-06-08T13:34:56","date_gmt":"2016-06-08T13:34:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=220760"},"modified":"2016-06-08T13:34:56","modified_gmt":"2016-06-08T13:34:56","slug":"mother-burnt-her-daughter-to-death-over-marriage-in-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=220760","title":{"rendered":"Mother ‘burnt her daughter to death’ over marriage in Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"

Police in the Pakistani city of Lahore have arrested a woman suspected of murdering her daughter for marrying without family consent.<\/p>\n

Police say the body of Zeenat Rafiq shows signs of torture. She was tied to a bed, doused with fuel and set alight.<\/p>\n

Her mother Parveen is accused of luring her back from her in-laws.<\/p>\n

It is the third such case in a month in Pakistan, where attacks on women who go against conservative rules on love and marriage are common.<\/p>\n

Last week a young school teacher, Maria Sadaqat, was set on fire in Murree near Islamabad for refusing a marriage proposal. She died of her injuries.<\/p>\n

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Maria Sadaqat suffered burns all over her body and took three days to die<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n

A month earlier village elders near Abbottabad ordered the murder of a teenage girl who was burnt to death because she helped a friend to elope, police said.<\/p>\n

Zeenat Rafiq had been strangled and burnt and there were signs of torture, police told BBC Urdu. A post mortem examination may establish if she was still alive when she was set on fire.<\/p>\n

Police say her mother, who is 50, was found in the house with the body. They also want to speak to the dead girl’s brother.<\/p>\n

Zeenat Rafiq married through the courts about a week ago, after eloping. She and her husband went to live with her in-laws.<\/p>\n

Police say she was lured back to her family’s home when her mother said she wanted to reconcile and promised a proper wedding ceremony.<\/p>\n

Protests over new law<\/strong><\/p>\n

Nearly 1,100 women were killed by relatives in Pakistan last year in so-called honour-killings, the country’s independent Human Rights Commission says. Many more cases go unreported.<\/p>\n

Violence against women by those outside the family is also common.<\/p>\n

Punjab province, where the two latest attacks happened, passed a landmark lawin February criminalising all forms of violence against women.<\/p>\n

However, more than 30 religious groups, including all the mainstream Islamic political parties, threatened to launch protests if the law was not repealed.<\/p>\n

The Council of Islamic Ideology, which advises the government, then proposed making it legal for husbands to “lightly beat” their wives. It came under fire as a result.<\/p>\n

Religious groups have equated women’s rights campaigns with promotion of obscenity. They say the new Punjab law will increase the divorce rate and destroy the country’s traditional family system.<\/p>\n

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Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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