4 arrested in Pakistan woman’s murder
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PAKISTANI police investigating the murder of a woman bludgeoned to death outside a court have arrested four men, a senior officer said yesterday, as her husband said he wanted her killers to “die in pain.”
Farzana Parveen was killed on Tuesday outside the High Court in the eastern city of Lahore by more than two dozen attackers armed with bricks, including numerous relatives, for marrying against her family’s wishes.
Her husband Mohammad Iqbal — who on Thursday admitted he had strangled his first wife out of love for Parveen — said he wanted to see her attackers “killed with bricks.”
Hundreds of women are killed by their relatives in Pakistan each year supposedly in the name of defending family “honor.”
But the brazen, brutal nature of Parveen’s killing, in broad daylight in the center of Pakistan’s second-largest city, has triggered outrage around the world.
Police were apparently at the scene, but did not stop the mob killing Parveen, who was three months pregnant.
Officers made arrests late on Thursday after Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif demanded immediate action on the case.
“Special investigation teams set up by police on the directive of the chief minister arrested four more people including an uncle and two cousins of the slain woman and a driver on Thursday night,” senior police official Zulfiqar Hameed said yesterday.
The new arrests bring the number held over the killing to five, after Parveen’s father was detained at the scene of the attack.
Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has directed that the case be heard in an anti-terrorism court. This should mean it moves more quickly than in an ordinary court, where cases can drag on for years.
Pakistan’s Supreme Court has also demanded a police report on the incident.
In a macabre twist to the case, Iqbal admitted on Thursday that he had strangled his first wife.
Yesterday in Chak 367, the tiny, dusty hamlet where he lives, Iqbal said he regretted the earlier killing.
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