Parveen Bibi
Parveen Bibi
After the killing of her daughter, Mrs Rafiq began shouting on
the street to neighbours that she had
killed the teen for bringing shame on her family, while beating her.
Honour killing: Punjabi Zeenat's 'crime' was getting married to
her Pashtun boyfirned Hasan Khan,
a motorcycle mechanic, and her mother (centre in headscarf) said the
teenager had brought
shame on the family.
Parveen Bibi
Police escort Parveen Bibi to court in Lahore.
(Arif Ali — AFP)
Parveen Bibi
Parveen Bibi in the custody of Pakistani police after confessing
to the murder of her daughter.
In 2015, 1,096 women and 88 men were killed in "honor" crimes in
Pakistan, according to the independent
Human Rights Commission of Pakistan.
An ambulance transports the body of the teenager burnt alive by
her mother.
Zeenat's grieving husband Hassan Khan, 19, told MailOnline she
came to his house after they were married
beaten and bloodied and asked him to elope with her so she could
escape their brutal clutches.
Hassan Khan, husband of Zeenat Rafiq, shows his marriage
certificate to media at his home in Lahore.
The marriage certificate that was to lead to a death.
Mr Khan says his wife Zeenat had begged him not to let her family
take her back to their house,
as she feared they would kill her as punishment for eloping.
The victim
Zeenat Rafiq, 18, died after her mother and brother tied her up
and set her on fire in the family home
in Lahore, eastern Pakistan, because, in their eyes she had married
the wrong man.