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| Father in Pakistan Kills His 4 Daughters | |
| 2005-12-25 | |
MULTAN, Pakistan (AP) - A father, angry that his eldest daughter had married against his wishes, slit her throat as she slept and then killed three of his other daughters in a remote village in eastern Pakistan, police said Saturday. Nazir Ahmad, a laborer in his 40s, feared the younger girls, aged 4, 8, and 12, would follow in their sister's footsteps, police officer Shahzad Gul said.
Gul said the man's 25-year-old daughter, Muqadas Bibi, had married the man of her choice against her father's wishes some weeks ago. Ahmad contacted Bibi this week, saying he was ready to forgive her, Gul said. During a visit by Bibi to her parents' house, Ahmad slit her throat as she slept and then killed the other three girls, Gul said. He said police were investigating whether other relatives helped in the killings and were also looking for Bibi's husband to inform him of her death. Hundreds of women are killed in Pakistan every year, many by male relatives, after they are accused of staining their families' honor by having affairs or marrying for love without family consent. | |
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #5 Pestilence, indeed. |
| Posted by: .com 2005-12-25 16:12 |
| #4 Hmmm, heh. Do they sell facial quality acid at the Pro Shop? |
| Posted by: .com 2005-12-25 16:11 |
| #3 Although the AP article says '...Hundreds of women are killed in Pakistan every year, many by male relatives, after they are accused of staining their families' honor...." It would not surprize me if the true number were well over 5,000; and when disfigurement is added, the total may be over 10,000. But membership at Augusta Country Club is more important I suppose. |
| Posted by: mhw 2005-12-25 16:00 |
| #2 His honor was besmirched - what else could he have done? I'm sure that the courts will view his case with the sympathy that it deserves. |
| Posted by: gromky 2005-12-25 05:53 |
| #1 Ahmad contacted Bibi this week, saying he was ready to forgive her, Gul said. During a visit by Bibi to her parents' house, Ahmad slit her throat as she slept and then killed the other three girls, Gul said. The mother is forfeit, as well, as it must be her fault. Actually anyone will do - anyone but Ahmad, of course, must bear the guilt of this betrayal of his honor. Poor man. I grieve for him, for his many losses in this treachery. By employing deceit and killing the younger sisters, innocent by any stretch of the imagination, Ahmad proves himself to be a True Lion of Islam. Anything less would have disqualified him. What a barbaric pestilence to humankind is this Islam. |
| Posted by: Flirt Glater7964 2005-12-25 01:45 |