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| Man Kills 40-Year-Old Sister for Re-Marrying Without His Permission |
| 2004-08-11 |
| From iafrica.com A Pakistani man declared he had "no regrets" as he allegedly confessed to killing his sister for marrying her second husband, police said on Friday ... "We have arrested Ashiq Ali after he allegedly killed his sister Sabhai as he was angry over her divorcing her first husband and marrying another man," Shikarpur police officer Fida Hussain Mastoi told AFP. "The accused has confessed his crime and told investigators he had no regrets over killing his sister as her actions tarnished family honour." Sabhai, a mother of three aged in her 40s, was shot dead by her brother Ali on July 14 in Karan village in southern Pakistan, some 600 kilometres southwest of Islamabad. Ali, arrested on July 16, has been charged with murder. He told investigators that his sister had left her first husband and married another man against her family's will about a year ago. Ali said he was under pressure to punish her because she had flaunted the family's will. He can be freed by court if his relatives pardon him, the police officer said. .... More than 4000 Pakistani women have been killed by their husbands, brothers and fathers since 1998, according to Interior Minister Faisal Saleh Hayat, on the pretext of shaming or violating the honour of their families, hence the term "honour killings." .... Ruling party MP Salim Jan Mazari caused an uproar in the parliament in July when he spoke out in defence of honour killings of girls who marry against their family's will, saying it was a tribal tradition that should be preserved. "It is impudent on the part of those girls who flee their homes and marry on their own will. If we don't treat this as karo kari (violation of honour) then what should we do?" Mazari said. |
| Posted by:Mike Sylwester |