Posted on 11/02/2017 9:20:55 AM PDT by NRx
Arranged marriages are a standard practice in Pakistan, and there’s no shortage of stories about the extreme steps some Pakistani women will take to escape them and marry men of their choosing. But few go as far as Aasia Bibi is alleged to have gone. According to Pakistani authorities, the 21-year-old woman tried to slip poison into her new husband’s milk and inadvertently killed 17 of his family members in the process.
Bibi, who is charged with murder, appeared in court Tuesday in the northeastern city of Muzaffargarh, where she told reporters that her parents had forced her in September to marry a relative, the Associated Press and ITV reported. Her family lives in nearby Ali Pur, a small village.
“I repeatedly asked my parents not to marry me against my will as my religion, Islam, also allows me to choose the man of my choice for marriage, but my parents rejected all of my pleas,” the AP quoted Bibi as saying. She had warned them she was willing to do anything to get out of the marriage, she added, but they refused to permit a divorce, according to ITV.
Desperate to get out of the arrangement, Bibi went to her boyfriend, Shahid Lashari, who gave her a “poisonous substance,” local police chief Sohail Habib Tajak told the AP.
Last week, Tajak said, Bibi mixed the poison in milk and gave it to her husband, but he refused to drink it. At some point after — and it’s not exactly clear how — Bibi’s mother-in-law used the tainted milk to make lassi, a yogurt-based drink popular in South Asia. When she served it to 27 members of her extended family, all of them lost consciousness and were hospitalized.
Bibi and Lashari were arrested on murder charges shortly afterward. Neither had lawyers, the AP reported.
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So THAT’S what they drink at Muslim weddings.
Chances are she killed her aunts and uncles because 50%+ of marriages in Pakistan are between first cousins.
Its just part of the reason why Pakistan is the WORST country in the world.
We must put an end to MILK VIOLENCE!!!! What’s next? Cheese wheels?
Just desserts.
Sort of puts a new spin on “milktoast” doesn’t it.
“:^)
Arranged marriages. How does that square with Wymmen’s Liberation? Will Hillary or Michelle provide the poor grrrl with a rent-free lawyer?
Knowing how these things seem to work... as punishment, the village elders will decree that everyone who got poisoned must rape the bride, and then the husband must chop her head off for being unfaithful.
Got milk?
Sounds like what could become a tradition in Jihadist lands with forced marriages.
Talk about Bridezilla!
There must be ... 50 ways to leave your....
White milk killed brown people. Milk is racist
She's, ummm, quite the looker.
Revenge Of The Bride
In Pakistan, the old saying is “Don’t die over spilled milk”.
Can’t say I blame her, she probably doesn’t want to marry some relative...
She is a cutie so why should she be saddled with some ol degenerate livestock humper. I know this was running though her mind. She knows her sexual/wifely value is much higher
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