A Pakistani mother has been arrested on suspicion of burning her 16-year-old daughter alive for marrying without family consent in the latest so-called "honour killing" to shock the country.
Perveen Bibi, tied her daughter, Zeenat, to a bed, doused her with fuel and then set fire to her in Lahore, police said.
Family members stopped neighbours from entering the house as the girl screamed for help, said Nighat Bibi, who lives nearby.
As her daughter burned, Perveen Bibi ran into the street shouting that she had killed the teen for bringing shame on her family.
The police eventually arrived and found the charred body near a staircase.
Zeenat married a man named Hasan Khan on May 29, police said. Khan's ethnicity - he is an ethnic Pashtun, while Zeenat was a Punjabi - was the main cause of the family's disapproval, according to the woman's family. Full story...
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Perveen Bibi, tied her daughter, Zeenat, to a bed, doused her with fuel and then set fire to her in Lahore, police said.
Family members stopped neighbours from entering the house as the girl screamed for help, said Nighat Bibi, who lives nearby.
As her daughter burned, Perveen Bibi ran into the street shouting that she had killed the teen for bringing shame on her family.
The police eventually arrived and found the charred body near a staircase.
Zeenat married a man named Hasan Khan on May 29, police said. Khan's ethnicity - he is an ethnic Pashtun, while Zeenat was a Punjabi - was the main cause of the family's disapproval, according to the woman's family. Full story...
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