Re: Pakistan Blood debt women offered up for rape
**Another incident in Punjab. Seems to me that Punjab is the center of a lot of these crimes.
Maybe Musharraf will buy more F-16’s and build more nuclear weapons in response. May Allah provide justice to the victims in this life and in the hereafter. Ameen**
Pakistani man mauls sister who married for love
(DPA)
27 November 2005
ISLAMABAD - A man chopped his 20-year-old sister’s legs for marrying a villager of her choice in Pakistan’s eastern Punjab province, a news report said on Sunday.
Daily Times said Naseem Bibi and her husband, Saeed Ahmed, were working in the fields when her elder brother with some villagers attacked them and cut her legs.
“She is in very critical condition in Bahawal Victoria Hospital because of over bleeding,” a senior police office, Arif Nawaz, told the newspaper.
He said Bibi’s brother had also filed a police report against his brother-in-law for kidnapping, but police discharged the case after she disclosed that the couple married willingly.
“He must have committed this crime in a fit of anger,” Nawaz said.
Violence against women is a growing concern in the male-dominated Pakistani society, where females are killed by their male relatives for disgracing their family’s honour by marrying of her own choice rather than accept an arranged mating. Daughters and sisters are also given in marriage to rivals for settlement of disputes.
Despite President General Pervez Musharraf declared “honour killing” a crime publicly, the independent Human Rights Commission of Pakistan says there is not decline in the numbers of such cases as at least more than 750 so-called honour killings have been reported in last 18 months.
According to another human rights watchdog, Lawyers for Human Rights and Legal Aid, ten women are physically abused every day in the Moslem country.
“Violence against women happens everywhere, even in the educated, upper and upper-middle classes of our society. The problem is they (women) don’t resist or stand up against it because of their fear that society will blame them instead of abusers,” said Tahira Abdullah, a women’s rights activist.
(Oh, I wonder where women would get such a crazy idea from? :rolleyes:)