Police in Pakistan have arrested Amina Bibi, a mother suspected of
killing her pregnant daughter for marrying against the wishes of her
family, the latest in a series of so-called “honor killings” in the
conservative Muslim country.Local police official Arshad Mahamood said Saturday that the mother and
her son slit the throat of 22-year-old Muqadas Tofeeq in the village of
Butrawala in Punjab province. Tofeeq was the mother of a 10-month-old
infant.
He says Muqadas was lured
into her parental home, where she was killed on Friday. Her husband,
Mohammed Tofeeq, reported the murder.
Nearly 1,000 women are killed in Pakistan each year for violating conservative norms on love and marriage.
Source: AL ARABIYA ENGLISH