Karachi: 'honour killing' of sister under radical Islam

[Anthea]

Karachi police arrest man for gruesome 'honour killing' of his sister

This is what RADIAL ISLAM does to people

KARACHI: Police on Thursday arrested a man in Karachi for slitting his sister's throat and letting her bleed to death, the latest case of 'honour killing' in the metropolis.

Hayat Khan, aged around 20, used a kitchen knife to murder his 16-year-old sister Sumaira after he found her talking to a man on her mobile phone at their home in the Orangi Town neighbourhood of the city on Wednesday, senior police officer Azfar Mahesar said.

He then threw her out of the house where she continued to bleed and writhe in pain on the steps as neighbours gathered.

Investigating Officer Gulzar Ahmed confirmed the details of the attack adding that Sumaira had suffered multiple stab wounds to the neck, chest and back.

Mobile phone footage shot by an unknown onlooker shows several men and boys standing around Sumaira, who is lying face down, dressed in a red tunic and orange headscarf and draped in a blanket.

Her head is seen lolling from side to side and the fingers of her right hand appear twisted.

A young boy is shown fighting back tears as one man says in Pashto: "Let's take her to a hospital in a car," and another man replies: "It's almost here, it's coming brother."

The video then pans to Hayat, dressed in a purple shirt and blue jeans, who stares directly at the camera.

Abdul Hakeem, a local resident, told AFP: "She was taken by car to a private hospital but she died before she arrived."

Mahesar said police had taken the unusual step of making themselves the complainants in the case, in order to avoid a loophole in the law that allows the relatives of the victim to forgive the killer.

"We have registered the case on behalf of the state as we don't want to give the family the option of settling the case outside court," he said.

The man was taken into custody soon after the incident.

“The arrested suspect told the police that he saw his sister talking to a youngster on the doorstep of their home,” said Mominabad police station SHO Inspector Sabir Khattak.

“He turned suspicious when the youngster ran away after seeing Hayat. He then asked his sister about the youngster but she refused to say anything. In a fit of anger, he took a knife from the kitchen and attacked Sumaira.”

The move came after Inayat Khan, Hayat and Sumaira's father, had told local media "what is done is done" and said he forgave his son.

Hundreds of women are murdered by their relatives in Pakistan each year on the pretext of defending family 'honour'.

"A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness” ─ a film telling the story of a rare survivor of an attempted 'honour killing' ─ won the Academy Award for best documentary short in February.

Pakistan amended its criminal code in 2005 to prevent men who kill female relatives escaping punishment by pardoning themselves as an “heir” of the victim.

But it was left to a judge's discretion to decide whether to impose a prison sentence when other relatives of the victim forgive the killer — a loophole which critics say remains exploited.

Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif vowed to eradicate the "evil" of honour killings in February but no fresh legislation has been tabled since then.

http://www.dawn.com/news/1255016

[Benny]

What a horrible and sad story to read! But thank you so much for sharing it, my friend.

/B

[Anthea]

What a horrible and sad story to read! But thank you so much for sharing it, my friend.

/B

Sadly it happens a lot, even in the UK

Girls just disappear

[Anthea]

'I've got a surprise for you': Husband blindfolds his wife.... and then chops off her fingers to stop her studying for a degree

A jealous husband is facing life in prison after chopping off his wife's fingers because she began studying for a degree without his permission.



Rafiqul Islam, 30, blindfolded his wife Hawa Akhter, 21, and taped her mouth, telling her he was going to give her a surprise present.

Instead he made her hold out her hand and cut off all five fingers. One of his relatives then threw Ms Akhter's fingers in the dustbin to ensure doctors could not reattach them.

Mr Islam, who is a migrant worker in the United Arab Emirates, had warned his wife there would 'severe consequences' if she did not give up her studies.

'After he came back to Bangladesh, he wanted to have a discussion with me,' Ms Akhter told The Times.

'Suddenly, he blindfolded me and tied my hand. He also taped my mouth saying that he would give me some surprise gifts. But, instead he cut off my fingers.'

Mohammed Saluddin, the Bangladesh police chief said that Mr Islam had confessed after he was arrested in the capital, Dhaka, and will face charges of permanent disfiguration.

Human rights groups are demanding life imprisonment.

'He was enraged. He was jealous because while he only had a grade eight standard education, she was off to college to pursue higher studies,' said Mr Saluddin.

Ms Akhter says she is learning to write with her left hand and is determined to resume her studies. She is now back at her parent's house.

The attack is the latest in a series of acts targeting educated women in the Muslim-majority company.

In June, an unemployed man gouged out the eyes of his wife, an assistant professor at Dhaka University, apparently because he could not stand her pursuing higher studies at a Canadian University.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... z2YMjg7ysO

[Benny]

Awful reading. But thanks.

/B

[Benny]

Another one, this time it´s from CNN:

http://edition.cnn.com/2016/05/05/asia/ ... index.html

/Benny

[Anthea]

Another one, this time it´s from CNN:

http://edition.cnn.com/2016/05/05/asia/ ... index.html

/Benny

Thank you for link fond story so will send to to out twitter account

16-yo girl burnt alive in Pakistan for helping couple elope

Tribal elders in Pakistan have been arrested for ordering the brutal murder of a 16-year-old girl who helped a couple elope. The girl was bound and burned to death in the vehicle used for the escape.

The murder happened last week in the town of Donga Gali, about 50km northeast of the capital, Islamabad, Reuters reported.

The so-called honor killing was ordered by the elders as punishment after the victim helped a couple from the nearby village of Makol. The couple violated cultural norms when they ran off together, and the elders saw the 16-year-old's participation in the act as causing irreparable damage to the village's reputation.

The elders “took her to an abandoned place outside the village and made her unconscious by injecting her with some drugs," said district police chief Saeed Wazir.

"Then they seated the girl in a van in which the couple had escaped. They tied her hands to the seats and then poured petrol on her and the vehicle."

The vehicle was then set ablaze, he said, adding that: “I hadn't seen such a barbaric attack in my whole life."

Reuters said 15 members of the tribal council were arrested in the case, as were the mother and the brother of the victim, who allegedly attended the meeting where the punishment was ordered and agreed to it. AP said there were 13 people arrested and said the girl was strangled to death rather than drugged before the van was set on fire.

Tribal councils have no legal power in Pakistan, but are often called to settle local conflicts in northwestern tribal regions of the country.

Hundreds of honor killings - an archaic tradition meant to restore family honor through the death of an offender - are committed in Pakistan each year. Relatives of the victims are often involved in such crimes.

Few cases of honor killings ever go to court, and in those that do the accused are often pardoned by judges under a norm stemming from sharia law. Pakistani legislators are trying to close that loophole.

https://www.rt.com/news/341955-pakistan ... ng-burned/