Pakistani parents kill daughter for looking at a boy

I voted today. When stories like this emerge it reminds me why I vote. How I have the RIGHT to vote. As a woman, I cant just be murdered because my parents feel like it.

AND that its basically ok to do so.

My heart aches for this little girl, and all other females who are opressed and dont enjoy freedom like we do. I have no words.....

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ISLAMABAD (AP) — A Pakistani couple accused of killing their 15-year-old daughter by pouring acid on her carried out the attack because she sullied the family's honor by looking at a boy, the couple said in an interview broadcast Monday by the BBC.

The girl's death underlines the problem of so-called "honor killings" in Pakistan where women are often killed for marrying or having relationships not approved by their families or because they are perceived to have somehow dishonored their family.

The girl's parents, Mohammad Zafar and his wife Zaheen, recounted the Oct. 29 incident from jail. The father said the girl had turned to look at a boy who drove by on a motorcycle, and he told her it was wrong.

"She said 'I didn't do it on purpose. I won't look again.' By then I had already thrown the acid. It was her destiny to die this way," the girl's mother told the British broadcaster.

Television footage of the couple showed them standing behind bars in separate, but adjoining jail cells.

The father said the family had already come under public censure because of their older daughter's behavior, but he did not detail what exactly he meant.

Pakistani officials initially said the attack occurred because the girl supposedly had an affair with a boy.

According to the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, at least 943 women were killed in the name of honor last year. Only 20 of the women were reported to have been given medical care before they died, the report said. The real toll is believed to be higher because many of the crimes go unreported.

"Throughout the year, women were callously killed in the name of honor when they went against family wishes in any way, or even on the basis of suspicion that they did so. Women were sometimes killed in the name of honor over property disputes and inheritance rights," the report said

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This is awful. I just can't understand how parents can behave this way. I can't imagine how their community's disapproval can be more important than their love for their own child.

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I am sorry but these people are sick, sick, sick
It is truly disturbing what goes on in these countries.
TRULY disturbing how they are raised to believe this is all ok.

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Pakistani parents kill daughter for looking at a boy

Ugh I hate this.

And I wonder (sad but true) how can WE help people who think like this? I mean really? You think the US can change their mind set? So sad.

Vicious and unnecessary and the PUBLIC thinks its ok. The laws may not but the public does.

Pakistani parents kill daughter for looking at a boy

i can' even begin to wrap my head around this. such a tragedy