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| Woman dies in Multan after being set on fire for "rejecting proposal" |
| 2015-11-04 |
| MULTAN: A young Pakistani woman died on Tuesday after a rejected suitor set her ablaze for refusing his marriage proposal, a doctor said. Sonia Bibi, 20, was admitted to hospital last month, where she told police that her former lover Latif Ahmed had doused her with petrol and set her alight after she turned down his proposal. Medical staff had originally said she would recover, but a doctor in Multan's Nishtar hospital told AFP that Bibi's injuries had become infected and that she died on Tuesday morning. About 45 to 50 per cent of her body had been burned in the attack, doctor Naheed Chaudhry, the head of the hospital's burns department told AFP. The incident took place in a remote village of Multan district in central Punjab province. Police have arrested the 24-year-old suspect. Bibi had told police that she had fallen out of love with Ahmed, and preliminary investigations suggested he had set her on fire "after she refused to marry him". Hundreds of women are murdered in Pakistan each year in cases of 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, says more than 3,000 women have been killed in such attacks since 2008. |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #4 Her father and brothers aren't locking and loading? |
| Posted by: Sven the pelter 2015-11-04 16:49 |
| #3 Generally you are right but it says she rejected his marriage proposal and the article calls her his "former lover" and says that she had "fallen out of love with him". All of that indicates to me it wasn't an arranged marriage situation. I could be wrong of course. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2015-11-04 14:58 |
| #2 I thought the parents were supposed to arrange the marriages. Love has nothing to do with it. |
| Posted by: Rambler in Virginia 2015-11-04 13:35 |
| #1 Nothing says true love like burning the them alive for rejecting you. No poetry or flowers or long term courting, this is Islam, straight to the lighter fluid and bic lighter. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2015-11-04 13:30 |