2 held in Pakistan over 鈥榟onor killing鈥
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A PAKISTANI man and his father have been arrested in the country鈥檚 latest so-called 鈥渉onor killing鈥 after they set the son鈥檚 wife alight for leaving the house without asking his permission.
Muhammad Siddique became enraged on learning that his wife, Shabana Bibi, 25, had visited her sister without first asking him if she could go out, her brother Muhammad Azam said. Siddique and his father then beat Bibi before dousing her with petrol and setting her on fire in Muzaffargarh district on Friday, Azam said.
Bibi had been married to Siddique for three years, during which time she had suffered repeated domestic abuse for the couple鈥檚 inability to have children, Azam said.
Suffering burns to 80 percent of her body, Bibi died of her injuries in hospital on Saturday.
鈥淲e have arrested the husband and father-in-law of the deceased woman and charged them for murder and terrorism,鈥 district police chief Rai Zameer-ul-Haq said. The charge of 鈥渢errorism鈥 is regularly applied in such cases so as to expedite the legal process.
Hundreds of women are murdered by their relatives in Pakistan each year.
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