Girls with bad in-laws from lower middle class backgrounds, was there a time you were afraid of going into the kitchen in Pakistan?
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wow this is the first time i heard about this
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What the **** is wrong with people.
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I had heard of this practice in India. Never knew that it is done in Pakistan too.
The people who are involved in this are pathetic loosers. Nothing more.
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This is absolutely disgusting. How inhumane do you have to be in order to do something like this..
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Maybe it applies mostly to the lower middle class, but middle class and upper class are certainly not immune from it.
A person very close to our family, was not stove burnt, but this is what happened to her.
She attended all the best convents, colleges in Lahore. Met a guy and they married. Neither family was keen on the match. A year later and one child later, an explosion occurred in her nice home in Islamabad, specifically the upper level. The neighbours heard her screaming for her life, but none came to help her. Eventually a 'chowkidaar' went inside, and rescued her. She was completely burnt, but barely hanging on. She stayed alive for 2 miserable days. During that time, she mentioned how her and her husband had fought , and he told her he already had a new wife, and he was also taking their child. He came from a wealthy, powerful armed forces family. A gas line had been cut, and she became the victim.
Her last words were 'I forgive him. I forgive him".
It has been 10 years since her death. Her family was irreparably destroyed forever. Her father never recovered from the loss of his beautiful and vivacious daughter. Her family also never, ever saw her child again,and nor did they want to ,nor did the child's father want them to be a part of the toddlers life.
And since it is Pakistan, no one pays for the crime.
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^ oh my god. sometimes i wonder why i open life1. that is horribly sad and disturbing ninja and wouldn't wish that on anyone. god continue to give her family sabr. i am not surprised with these stories as the issues of child brides and domestic violence is so prevalent in Pakistan, Afghanistan, India etc. but i think rare cases come up in more higher class families, i have studied this happening most often in many rural areas and lower class families, where aspects of the problems boil down to certain core beliefs and practices through sheer ignorance unfortunately. truly heartbreaking.
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Insaaniyat from PP? 
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Terrible. :(
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Oh I read a lot about it in the Urdu newspapers when I was a kid. In-laws would claim "keh gas cylinder phatt gaya", or "larki ka dupatta aag main aa gaya, bas bacha nahin sakay time par", when she was really set on fire alive because of some conceived notion. There were a few dramas that revolved around this too. Don't see this mentioned anywhere in the newspapers or dramas anymore though.
Combine this with acid attacks, no wonder ghareeb parents don't want a daughter. Who wants to see their kid go through such a thing =/
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Murder is a murder.....
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From the 3rd article:
"Reasons for burning women vary, but most cases center around failure to give birth to a son, the desire to marry a second wife without having the financial means to support the first and long-running animosity with mothers-in-law...The women are predominantly between the ages of 18 and 35 and around 30 percent are pregnant at the time of their deaths."
"Nur's husband had inserted red-hot irons into her genitalia and burned other parts of her body.
'That was the turning point for me. She was the first. When the nurses lifted the blankets and I saw the horrific state of Zainab's body, I fainted," Bukhari remembers with a visible shudder. "He was punishing her because she had dared to complain to friends of his abuse, to confide in someone, to speak out.'
She [Nur] survived, and now, forced to wear both colostomy and urine-collection bags, works with other women.Courts eventually sentenced Nur's husband to 10 years in prison. He was released after serving six."
^ Ya Allah, pure hewaaniyat hai yeh! shudders
The amount of dowry is inversely proportional the the likelihood that bahu rani's sari would catch fire from the stove.
Pathetic but true..
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Allah maaf karay :(
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dimaagh chal gaya hay kambakhton ka!!
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It’s about time groom burning is introduced legally 
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lol
sigh
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Lol 
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Just wanted to preserve this gem..
and these too…
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How in the world is this even remotely funny?