A Pakistani man and his father have been arrested in the
country's latest so-called "honour killing" after they set the son's
wife alight for leaving the house without asking his permission, police
said Sunday.
Muhammad Siddique became
enraged on learning that his wife, Shabana Bibi, 25, had visited her
sister without first asking him if she could go out, her brother
Muhammad Azam said.
Siddique and his
father then beat Bibi before dousing her with petrol and setting her on
fire in Central Pakistan's Muzaffargarh district on Friday, Azam said.
FAMILY HONOUR
Bibi
had been married to Siddique for three years, during which time she had
suffered repeated domestic abuse for the couple's inability to have
children, Azam said.
Suffering burns to 80 percent of her body, Bibi died of her injuries in hospital on Saturday.
"We
have arrested the husband and father-in-law of the deceased woman and
charged them for murder and terrorism," district police chief Rai
Zameer-ul-Haq told AFP. The charge of "terrorism" is regularly applied
in such cases so as to expedite the legal process.
Hundreds
of women are murdered by their relatives in Pakistan each year through
domestic violence or on the grounds of defending family "honour".
The
Aurat Foundation, a campaign group that works to improve the lives of
women in Pakistan's conservative and patriarchal society, says more than
3,000 women have been killed in such attacks since 2008.
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