Pakistan couple killed in love marriage
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A 17-year-old girl and her husband were killed by her family for marrying without its consent, and another young woman was burned alive by a man for refusing his proposal in Pakistan’s Punjab province, police said yesterday.
Muafia Bibi and her husband Sajjad Ahmed, 30, were killed in Satrah village on Friday night, allegedly by her parents, two uncles and her grandfather, said Asghar Ali, the area police chief.
He said the couple was hacked to death with a butcher’s knife, and that all five suspects have been apprehended.
Ali said the couple married on June 19, and that the family had lured them back home by saying it accepted the marriage. He said it was Ahmed’s third marriage, with the first ending in divorce and his second wife leaving him after he married Bibi.
Elsewhere in Punjab, a man burned alive a 20-year-old girl he wanted to marry after her family refused his proposal. Fayaz Aslam, 26, doused Sidra Shaukat in gasoline before setting her alight in a field, said Akhtar Saeed, a district police official.
Saeed said the girl was taken to hospital where she died overnight. He said Aslam was arrested for murder.
Marrying for love is a taboo among conservative Muslims in Pakistan.
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