Posted on 12/25/2005 6:36:26 PM PST by Flavius
Man butchers his four daughters in Pakistan (DPA)
25 December 2005
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.
Sounds like the UN should sit Pakistan on the HR Commission with Libya and Syria, then!
Celebrate Diversity!
Ain't islam so peaceful and grand?
Honor intact.
Multiculturalism is so educational.......
ROP Monster!
Dad needs to be sterilized.
Will they give him a medal?
Paki birth control?
Bush's fault.
With a chainsaw.
Dad needs to be publicly drawn and quartered.
Pig - I am anxious to see his execution.
Okay, I know I'm a dense infidel, but I'd think that knowing your older sister get hacked to death by daddy for eloping might have been a sufficient negative incentive not to do it yourself. Just a thought.
As Satan spoke over a period of time in whispers to the prophet, Satan knew exactly how to set things up for the future. Need I say more.
Perhaps he needs his throat slit without anesthesia.
Attention liberals...the Christian faith you so often trash is true freedom and women are not just objects to be dominated. Christians don't cut off heads or slice necks off young women.
"For Human Rights groups, violence against women is a GROWING concern...."
Just now growing, huh??? Where have you "human rights" groups been???
Oh..yeah, worried about the detainees in Gitmo???
This has been happening for generations...and they are just now starting to grow concerned...puh-leeze.
Since it isn't Bush or the US military....they aren't gonna do any more than lip service...because, America is the EVIL Country...
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