Posted on 07/08/2008 6:42:37 PM PDT by TornadoAlley3
A Pakistani man accused of killing his daughter five days after she filed for divorce to end her arranged marriage wept in court Tuesday, telling a Clayton County magistrate he is innocent.
"I have done nothing wrong," Chaudhry Rashid told Chief Magistrate Daphne Walker through interpreter Younis Farhat. Farhat said Rashid speaks primarily Urdu and Punjabi.
But police say Rashid, 54, used a bungee cord to strangle Sandeela Kanwal, 25, early Sunday morning in the family's Utah Drive home in Jonesboro.
Rashid, who is being held without bond, told the judge he wanted to observe his Muslim beliefs in the Clayton jail. He wants to follow a diet that forbids the consumption of pork in any form and requires other meats are prepared according to Islamic rules.
Rashid's wife, Gina Rashid, told police the father and daughter argued over Kanwal wanting to end her arranged marriage.
Clayton Superior Court records show Kanwal filed for divorce July 1 from Majid Latif, alleging the marriage was irretrievably broken. The couple married March 14, 2002, in Gujrat, a district in the Pakistan province of Punjab. Kanwal and a brother, Hamayun Rashid, 27, bought the Utah Drive house in November 2005, and the Rashid family lived there with the married couple.
Kanwal's divorce filing states the couple separated April 15, her 25th birthday. She said they had no joint property and no children.
Kanwal alleges a family friend told her Latif returned to Chicago April 25 but that she had no idea how to find him. She also contacted Latif's father May 18 in Gujrat, the papers state, and he also said he did not know where his son was.
Five days after the divorce filing, Clayton police say Rashid killed his daughter.
Defense attorney Tammi Long was hired by the family to represent Rashid on murder charges. Long said she's known the family less than five years, having done business-related work for them. Police said Rashid runs a pizza restaurant in East Point. Rashid told Walker he is in the United States legally and possesses a green card.
Members of the Rashid family attending Tuesday's hearing declined to talk about the case. No one answered the door at the family home Monday afternoon. Efforts to reach Latif have been unsuccessful.
After Tuesday's hearing, Long raised doubts about the possible motive for Kanwal's death.
"I don't know anything about an arranged marriage," Long said. "I am not positive that is a factor in this case."
However, Long said she could not elaborate and would need time to talk to the family in depth. She also asked for privacy and declined to discuss Kanwal's funeral arrangements.
"This is a difficult time for him and his family," she said. "He is holding up the best he can. We'd just ask that the family's time and privacy be respected."
In court, Rashid made guttural noises and cried. He rocked back and forth and appeared to be talking to himself before the hearing started. Through Farhat, Rashid told Walker he was mourning the loss of his daughter.
"My daughter just died and I am not in a state of mind to ask any questions," he said.
You’re not in Paki anymore, baby.
OH GIVE ME A BREAK!! He cannot come to the door because he is mourning the death of his daughter? Whom he killed? Oh, hang him high.
Sorry, when you commit a crime, you lose many of your rights you enjoyed outside of jail.
Throw him in Pig blood and then hang him.
He sees nothing wrong with what he did. I see nothing wrong with skinning him alive.
A Pakistani man accused of killing his daughter five days after she filed for divorce to end her arranged marriage wept in court Tuesday, telling a Clayton County magistrate he is innocent.
Statement #2:
"I have done nothing wrong," Chaudhry Rashid told Chief Magistrate Daphne Walker through interpreter Younis Farhat. Farhat said Rashid speaks primarily Urdu and Punjabi.
These two statements do not say the same thing, no matter what the Einsteins at the AJC may think.
Completely heartless. No telling how many women and girls are murdered each year in Islamic countries....in the name of Allah.
He wants to follow a diet that forbids the consumption of pork in any form and requires other meats are prepared according to Islamic rules
Just feed the pig a hamberger from the local burger joint.The hell with him.
No, he’s in the US. Watch CAIR make this POS a cause celeb. If any Muslims on the jury, it might end up being hung.
“Sorry, when you commit a crime, you lose many of your rights you enjoyed outside of jail. “
Are you kidding? He’ll get his ass kissed and every amenity will be given to the pig because of “diversity.” They should feed him pork products every day until his sorry ass is executed. And then they should wrap him in a pigskin and bury his sorry ass.
But . . . I’ll bet they won’t”
Try him and fry him but under no cicumstances give him Koran or access to the prison Imam
Maybe in that 3rd world hell hole of society you are from what you say might be true from Muzzie society viewpoint but you are in America and thankfully GA has the death penatly.
Worthless bloody Islamic savage!
At least throw this murdering Muslim dirtbag into general population while awaiting trial!
Wake up, America, GRRRRRR.....!
):^(
We too have a custom...
Reminds me those two guys who killed their parents, then begged the courts to have mercy on them, because their parents were killed.
And other prisoners want a bunch of things too that they will also not get.
menendez brothers, sorry for them because they were now orphans
We really do need a law in America that makes honor killing a capital crime, no exceptions.
Wish we could still use the electric chair. Pigs like this should sizzle as they fry. Killing his own daughter because she wouldn’t stay with the husband he picked for her. ‘Freedom of religion’ does not mean you can ignore the law. Thankfully, this isn’t the UK.
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