Pakistani woman brutally killed for marrying her lover!

-DR. ABDUL RUFF COLACHAL

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Islam is against cruelty but Muslims just do that and justify their crimes by comparing themselves with other communities. Pakistan, rulers seek foreign  money as service charges  to help NATO murdering Pakistanis,  seems to be moving fast into decay.

Even as Pakistan premier and many  important figures were on an unusual tour in India, a pregnant woman was stoned to death on 27^th May not by Taliban or military but by her own family outside a courthouse in the Pakistani city of Lahore’

The lady was killed for marrying the man she loved without the society’s permission. .

The woman was killed while on her way to court to contest an abduction case her family had filed against her husband.

Farzana Parveen, 25, had married Mohammad Iqbal, 45, against her family's wishes after being engaged to him for years. Her father, Mohammad Azeem, had filed an abduction case against Iqbal, which the couple was contesting. She was three months pregnant.

Nearly 20 members of Parveen's extended family, including her father and brothers, had waited outside the building that houses the high court of Lahore. As the couple walked up to the main gate, the relatives fired shots in the air and tried to snatch her from Iqbal. When she resisted, her father, brothers and other relatives started beating her, eventually pelting her with bricks from a nearby construction site. Iqbal said he started seeing Parveen after the death of his first wife, with whom he had five children. He alleged that the woman's family wanted to fleece money from him before marrying her off. "I simply took her to court and registered a marriage," infuriating the family, he said.

Parveen's father surrendered after the attack and called his daughter's murder an "honor killing," I killed my daughter as she had insulted all of our family by marrying a man without our consent, and I have no regret over it. Her father was promptly arrested on murder charges.

Police were working to apprehend all those who participated in this "heinous crime."

A typical Bollywood cinema scene, and Pakistanis love Indian masaala movies and learn a lot to give life to the fiction. But it is Pakistan’s real tragedy.

Arranged marriages are the norm among conservative Pakistanis, and hundreds of women are murdered every year in so-called honor killings carried out by husbands or relatives as a punishment for alleged adultery or other illicit sexual behavior. Many women consume liquor to show their importance in society. Stonings in public settings, however, are extremely rare. Tuesday's attack took place in front of a crowd of onlookers in broad daylight. The courthouse is located on a main downtown thoroughfare.

Mujahid, the police investigator, said the woman's body was handed over to her husband for burial.

The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, a private group, said in a report last month that some 869 women were murdered in honor killings in 2013. But even Pakistanis who have tracked violence against women expressed shock at the brutal and public nature of Tuesday's slaying. "I have not heard of any such case in which a woman was stoned to death, and the most shameful and worrying thing is that this woman was killed outside a courthouse," said Zia Awan, a prominent lawyer and human rights activist.

Pakistanis who commit violence against women are often acquitted or handed light sentences because of poor police work and faulty prosecutions. Either the family does not pursue such cases or police don't properly investigate. As a result, the courts either award light sentences to the attackers, or they are acquitted

Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said that he had a constructive meeting with PM Narendra Modi and top diplomats from Pakistan and India would meet soon to advance peace talks that have moved fitfully because of political tensions between the nuclear-armed rivals.

Nawaz Sharif offered special prayers at the historic Jama Masjid, Delhi, constructed by emperor Shahjahan as part of his contribution to the process of worshiping the only God, Allah.

Pakistan is eager to restart Indo-Pak joint cricketism for sharing 100s and 50s and most probably Sharif, the Muslim League leader, tried to appeal to Modi to do more on the subject so that Kashmiris will forget independent nation for themselves. Why do they need a nation when they are comfortable in Inside India and Pakistan? they wonder!  

One has no idea if Kashmiri Muslims who fight with India for becoming a part of a Pakistan, destabilized by US-led NATO rogue forces,  share this inhuman, uncivilized "honor killing". Maybe Kashmiris also want to get killed by NATO rogue militaries and Pakistani military, jointly or separately!

May be destiny and fate are already determined and Kashmiris move towards that.