05-31-2014, 01:01 PM
(05-30-2014, 03:36 PM)Duchess Wrote: Also, he's threatening to commit suicide by self-immolation in the same spot she was stoned unless her killers are brought to justice.
Hell, based on what's been revealed about the husband, I'd lend him a match.
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The husband of Farzana Parveen, the Pakistani woman stoned to death for refusing to participate in an arranged marriage, told CNN he killed his first wife so he could marry Parveen.
Authorities said the first wife was killed six years ago.
"I wanted to send a proposal to Farzana, so I killed my wife," Mohammad Iqbal said Thursday in an interview with CNN.
Zulfiqar Hameed, district inspector general for the Punjab police, said Iqbal's son from the first marriage alerted police to the slaying six years ago.
Iqbal was arrested but later released on bail because his son forgave him, Hameed said.
The son, Aurengzeb, who is in his 20s, confirmed his father's statements to CNN. He said his father served a year in jail.
The United Nations estimates 5,000 women are murdered worldwide by family members each year in "honor killings," so named because the woman's actions are considered to have brought shame on her family. But women's advocacy groups say the crime is underreported and the figure could be around 20,000 a year.
"Most 'honor' crimes can be traced to inflexible and discriminatory attitudes about women's roles, especially around sexuality," said Rothna Begum of Human Rights Watch. "Women or couples seen as having brought 'dishonor' on the community face violence, which is then held out as a chilling example for others."
Most honor killings in the Middle East and Central Asia occur in rural areas. Tuesday's attack was unusual because it happened in a public area of a big city.
Iqbal, a neighbor of Parveen's family, said he and Parveen were supposed to marry, with the family's approval, last year. As part of the arrangement, Iqbal said, he'd given Parveen's father 80,000 rupees and gold jewelry.
Last December, Parveen's mother died and her father and brothers changed their minds about the marriage, Iqbal said.The family decided Parveen, who came from a village in Punjab, should marry a cousin, police said.
The marriage enraged her family, Iqbal said, and they demanded he pay them 100,000 rupees (about $1,000) to let the couple stay alive. Iqbal, a farmer in the village in Jurranwala, Punjab, didn't have the money.
http://us.cnn.com/2014/05/29/world/meast...?hpt=ju_c2
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Now I've gotta wonder if the asshole husband is pressing so hard for "justice" so that he can be paid off to "forgive" his wife's family/killers.
It's truly mind boggling to me that these practices are still taking place in the 21st century. It probably shouldn't be.