Au contrarie!
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| Woman stoned to death outside Lahore High Court |
| 2014-05-28 |
| [DAWN] LAHORE: A 25-year-old woman was stoned to death by her family outside the Lahore High Court on Tuesday in a so-called "honour" killing for marrying the man she loved, police said. Farzana Iqbal was waiting for the High Court in Lahore to open when a group of around dozen men began attacking her with bricks, said Umer Cheema, a police brass hat. Her father, two brothers and former fiance were among the attackers, he said. Iqbal suffered severe head injuries and was pronounced dead in hospital, police said. All the suspects except her father escaped. He admitted killing his daughter, Cheema said, and explained it was a matter of honour. Cheema said Farzana had been engaged to her cousin but married another man. Her family registered a kidnapping case against him but Farzana had come to court to argue that she had married of her own free will, he said. Arranged marriages are the norm among conservative Paks, who view marriage for love as a transgression. Around 1,000 Pak women are killed every year by their families in honour killings, according to Pak rights group the Aurat Foundation. The true figure is probably many times higher since the Aurat Foundation only compiles figures from newspaper reports. The government does not compile national statistics. Campaigners say few cases come to court, and those that do can take years to be heard. No one tracks how many cases are successfully prosecuted. Even those that do result in a conviction may end with the killers walking free. Pak law allows a victim's family to forgive their killer. But in honour killings, most of the time the women's killers are her family, said Wasim Wagha of the Aurat Foundation. The law allows them to nominate someone to carry out the murder, then forgive him. "This is a huge flaw in the law," he said. "We are really struggling on this issue." |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #14 A Saudi, surprising his houseboy Salaaming while sizing up Playboy, Said, "I'll never tell, Since you didn't yell When you busted me browsing _The Borzoi_." |
| Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 2014-05-28 23:30 |
| #13 I must confess, it is indeed a beautiful goat, reminds me of a few Afghan hounds I've beeen (LOL) involved with. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2014-05-28 17:54 |
| #12 A "High-Maintenance" Goat? |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2014-05-28 17:51 |
| #11 To be fair, Shipman, that is a seriously beautiful goat. What her owner must spend in hair care products alone doesn't bear thinking about. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2014-05-28 17:49 |
| #10 Is second from right...chomping? |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2014-05-28 16:58 |
| #9 Love is not Islamic? Au contrarie! |
| Posted by: Shipman 2014-05-28 16:19 |
| #8 Love is not Islamic. |
| Posted by: Snusort Spomose2148 2014-05-28 14:59 |
| #7 Given the preference for close-cousin marriage -- to keep the property in the family, and because brothers are more trustworthy than neighbours -- many family trees are braided among the Arabs and Pakistanis. Granted, this does lead to a high level of congenital physical and mental disorders -- these families have deaf children, those have schizophrenics, the others are prone to club feet or mentally retarded -- but how much brain power or graceful movement is needed for hewers of wood and having babies in a semi-feudal society such as Pakistan's or Saudi Arabia's? As long as the head of the family is sharp, sane, and presentable, all will be well. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2014-05-28 13:46 |
| #6 Frank, in many Muslim countries, the family tree doesn't fork. Then cut the tree off at the ground. Apply salt. |
| Posted by: Jotch Gleter5889 2014-05-28 10:34 |
| #5 Frank, in many Muslim countries, the family tree doesn't fork. |
| Posted by: Rambler in Virginia 2014-05-28 10:32 |
| #4 take the pruning saw to this family tree |
| Posted by: Frank G 2014-05-28 09:56 |
| #3 You heard the man, "there is huge flaw in the law." What else needs to be said. |
| Posted by: Eohippus Uniper5708 2014-05-28 09:46 |
| #2 There are no cops outside the HIGH COURT? They were 'helping the family'....... |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2014-05-28 07:55 |
| #1 There are no cops outside the HIGH COURT? |
| Posted by: Richard Aubrey 2014-05-28 07:42 |