A 25-year-old pregnant Pakistani woman was stoned to death by her father and other relatives for marrying a man without their consent.
Farzana Parveen and her husband Mohammad Iqbal, 45, were attacked at the court house in downtown Lahore on Tuesday. Her father, Mohammad Azeem, had filed an abduction case against Iqbal, which the couple was contesting, said her lawyer, Mustafa Kharal. He said she was three months pregnant.
The couple was attacked by her father, brothers and about 20 male relatives as they exited the high court of Lahore. Azeem yanked Parveen by her arm to talk to her, but she resisted.
The relatives began beating Parveen to death as bystanders looked on. The attackers hit her with sticks, rocks and bricks from a nearby construction site.
Iqbal, who wasn’t the source of their rage, escaped serious injury. He said he started seeing Parveen after the death of his wife, with whom he had five children.
Arranged marriages are customary among conservative Pakistanis who don’t believe in marrying for love. The bride’s parents expect a dowry (usually cash or property) to be paid by the groom for their daughter’s hand in marriage.
“We were in love,” Iqbal told The Associated Press. 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.
Police investigator Rana Mujahid said police were working to apprehend all those who participated in this “heinous crime.”
Parveen’s father surrendered to police but the others fled after the attack. Azeem called his daughter’s death 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,” the father told Mujahid.
“Pakistani law allows a victim’s family to forgive their killer,” said Wasim Wagha of the Aurat Foundation. “But in honor killings, most of the time the women’s killers are her family. The law allows them to nominate someone to do the murder, then forgive him.”
my comment was mean
Apologies, but its Outrages the treatment of women in these other countries
Disgusting.
“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,”
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Well, damn. #jesusfixit
The couple was attacked by her father, brothers and about 20 male relatives as they exited the high court of Lahore.
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This is all types of sad & make me grateful to live in the U.S.
One of my childhood friends tries to use Christianity as a scare tactic. She said that if the U.S. was more like Kuwait, people would be better off 
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These people are just plain crazy
that poor lady and unborn child didn’t deserve to die 
Iqbal, who wasn’t the source of their rage, escaped serious injury.
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He knows the rules just like her. Why he ain’t get killed too? Anyway, both of them knew this would happen and thought it was worth the risk. Clearly it wasn’t.
I often preach about the effects of dopamine and the impulsiveness of marrying for love. But then I look at societies where there is no love.
No For real I know that was Mean
Sads. Dang
This gives me the sads.
Being stoned to death though? That is an awful way to die I would assume that’s a lot of stones and being hit repeatedly like that?? Just horrible and to call it a honor killing? I don’t know much about their culture but I’m going to have to disagree with their methods… As I’m sure they disagree with the idea of westerners marrying for “love”
I was wondering what happen to your comment Luvn
Smh this is horrible. The stuff we take for granted being in America. I guess being here isn’t so bad after all. Scary.
You took the life of your daughter cuz the man whom she chose didnt pay U for HER … yeah thats logic at its finest
middle fanga to you ugly sunna bish! Honor my a$$ …. FAWK! 
Tis ALL about Money
Pops HAD to, Just in case anybody else in his family got any ideas
We may not understand it or agree with it, but them folks stand by their culture. And old boys family knows how it goes and they should have been coming up with some money to pay for his wife’s hand in marriage…
IF anyone knows any real Indian folks, then you know that they do NOT play when it comes to who marries whom, and how involved the families are in the marriage even after they get married.
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RIP to the young lady
killing your daughter = culture
FOH!
The man lost his first wife and was left with 5 kids and Daddydearest said pay me some fleece so my daughter can be your new babysitter?
I will not agree with/understand any CULTURE that kills their own like this … even if they been doing it for a bazzillllon years
I dont understand why they didnt beat his ass know he gots to pay. But since ole girl was knocked up she had to die cause now shes dishonored. Glad they dont stone unwed moms over here
You aint hots to agree with it but that aint changing over ther I don’t even know why theyreport thatstuff like its unusual or something. I guess to make Americans with no or low wage jobs student loan burdens mass shootings and poverty and rampant racism feel better about themselves
Some cultures chop off your hand for stealing
To each their own
I guess; but They judge us 
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I know a whole bunch of folks that need to find some Culture
We may not understand it or agree with it, but them folks stand by their culture
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MaYne FcuK YO Culture! this is barbaric and uncivilized
This is barbaric and uncivilized.
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So is LAHHATL
Dowry is paid by the female’s family in arranged marriages. Most women who get set on fire in India and Pakistan, are treated this way because their families can’t come up with more dowry.
Women ain’t sh*t anywhere in the world. Not in the west, north, east or south. Hell, you can snatch up 8 school buses full of us, and no one will do a damn thing but tweet.
This is barbaric and uncivilized.
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So is LAHHATL
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so Ive heard
Such is indian culture just like the husband will take a machete and chop his wife to pieces if she tries to leave then drink a bottle of bleach so he wont face prosecution.
In indian and Pakistani culture lower class and middle-lower class women have no rights but to be wives, mothers and to ensure their actions positively reflect on their families. Think about how many indian and pakistani girls have no lives because the live in solitude to provide the world with idian-remy
Think about how many indian and pakistani girls have no lives because the live in solitude to provide the world with idian-remy
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I read that it was over marrying outside of her religion which is forbidden. Its no secret how serious Pakistani’s are about family honor and religion, once a part of India it split because of religios conflict. My daughter has a classmate whose black mother was murdered in Atlanta because of family shame when she married an Indian. Family shame is not being able to live in certain places, go certain places or schools. You become a cockroach and have to die to be redeemed. My question is, she knew the law and consequences, why did she do it?
Sucks to live in a country that HATES WOMEN & their personal opinions :smh:
Good Morning Sandra, Roses, Thorns, lurker & newbies
Good Morning everyone. I am so sorry this woman had to die and then in this manner. God bless her soul. This wasn’t right
I respect religious beliefs. If you want to kill yourself. Go ahead. Have at it. But if you kill someone else in the name of a religion who didn’t want to die….. I am sorry you are a murderer. SR please don’t leave this post up too long 
I guess to make Americans with no or low wage jobs student loan burdens mass shootings and poverty and rampant racism feel better about themselve
his is barbaric and uncivilized.
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*raises hand slowly with incredulous look upon my face* But LHHATL is a FAKE reality show. Nobody here even thinks Banbi was really pregnant. This woman REALLY died. For choosing to love someone and marry them. I will not cosign that. Dogs were treated better than her. Let me go pray
Amen
now this piss me off soooo bad, and they wonder why we look at them as trrroist when we see them on planes.
Good morning everyone
I agree with mistaken LHHATL and this situation is not the same thing at all. I am not sure who people are questioning why she married this man if she knew she was going to die because we all have our own thoughts on who to marry over here and even people in other cultures have the same thoughts. We all do things that are against norm but we do it anyway because we want to and just because you are in a culture that has stiffer rules doesn’t block you from your own thoughts of how it should be. I wonder how many would have still gotten married here if you knew the possible consequences of that is death?
@Spicey
We all know that people fought against things that were wrong to them but the mainstream and people in positions of power thought were wrong. If we all accepted what someone told us as right without educating and researching for ourselves we would be even more lost than we are now. Just because your parents are a certain faith or religion does not mean that you have to be as an adult. I decided to still serve and love the Lord as an adult of my own volition NOT because my mom told me to. I know plenty of people raised in the church who now are Muslim, Buddhist, non denominational, etc. They did what works best for them and their soul. So should they be stoned to death because they changed and married someone of another faith or without permission? Let me answer that for you. NO.
*raises hand slowly with incredulous look upon my face* But LHHATL is a FAKE reality show. Nobody here even thinks Banbi was really pregnant. This woman REALLY died. For choosing to love someone and marry them. I will not cosign that. Dogs were treated better than her. Let me go pray
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No but the secks tapes, scantily clad women, glorifying on break babies, drunkenness, physical violence (I laughed my head off when The Bam punched that girl) are real. And what’s worse to me is that people are debasing themselves, their children, and their VOWS for fakery for entertainment. Selling their values for some screen time. It’s it the SAME, of course not because a life was lost. I don’t respect the values of these me but they take them seriously.
We don’t value human life and dignity here either. It’s still throwing stones in our glass house.
Black men used to be hung for sleeping with a white woman and yet still they still did it anyway. Just because society at that time didn’t accept it and also some of them screamed rape but that’s a different story. I’m just saying some people can’t help who they love, like or lust over and long as they are of age and consensual it shouldn’t matter about race or religion. To die by the hands of your own family in this manner is something I will never fully understand.
And what’s worse to me is that people are debasing themselves, their children, and their VOWS for fakery for entertainment. Selling their values for some screen time. It’s it the SAME, of course not because a life was lost. I don’t respect the values of these me but they take them seriously.
We don’t value human life and dignity here either. It’s still throwing stones in our glass house.
, read a book, make sure my kids get a good education, drink on the weekends, go to work and not stone my kids if they decide to marry someone I do not like 
I will be a 
all day I guess. I am ok with that. God bless AMURICA (Chris Rock voice)
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Understood. But guess what. You can turn off the tv. You don’t have to watch it. This woman could not escape the stoning. She was born into that life. She had no choice. When she exercise her right to have a choice over her life and body she was killed.
I get the points. REALLY I do. I just do not think they are fair to use in the same analogy. One you have an option another you do not. And also since when is it not ok to point out a wrong just because you also might have done wrong? I get it we are speaking as a whole and since I am an American I live in a glass house and shouldn’t pointing out injustice because that can make me a hypocrite. At the end of the day I am still going to go to church, be married, have kids, watch LHHATL
@Missy: I just watched the video of 50 Cent. I think he had to of done that on purpose because that was TURRIBLE. TakenSon1 could have done better than that
How did India get involved in the discussion of Pakistan because they are different and practice different religions? India is mostly Hindi while Pakistan is Muslim.
*goes to read my font cause now I am confused* did I say something about India?
Understood. But guess what. You can turn off the tv. You don’t have to watch it.
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I don’t watch LHHATL but y’all do. What am *I* supposed to do when *y’all* get on here discussing it dragging decent folks like me down with you?
<— panky in the air 
It is not my fault none of you can ack right 
@MissyJ: I am so sorry
that we have forced you into the gutter with us 
No I get it. LHHATL is not something to aspire to be. PERIOD. I do not let me kids watch it at all. But when we were growing up there were plenty of songs, tv shows and movies our parents didn’t let us watch either. Now as a grown-up we know why. Over the break I was at a family member’s house and were playing around and put on some of that blue light in the basement music. Them heffas was nasty 
and fast. That is why we as parents need to educate our kids on values and what matters. You can blame tv/outside forces all day but 7/10 the household and environment you create matters more. I originally typed 9/10 but then I realized that kids these days ain’t body ish 
*ain’t bout
That is why we as parents need to educate our kids on values and what matters. You can blame tv/outside forces all day but 7/10 the household and environment you create matters more. I originally typed 9/10 but then I realized that kids these days ain’t body ish
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Morning Roses
I wasn’t meaning you said anything about India @mistaken and now that I reread what they said I know now they weren’t saying it was the same place.
I remember when I was younger about 16 or 17 my mama made me and this boy cover our eyes on some movie and I don’t even think it was nothing but kissing,
It’s only 9:15 am. I have already been here for 2 hours and I have 4 more before I get some fresh air/lunch. *Florida Evans fist in the air* :wails:
I wasn’t meaning you said anything about India @mistaken and now that I reread what they said I know now they weren’t saying it was the same place.
But you know how when you font something and then somebody else says something and then you be like wait did I say that?? 
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I know
The bride’s parents expect a dowry (usually cash or property) to be paid by the groom for their daughter’s hand in marriage.
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Their culture is off the chain! This is all over an unpaid bill? This man couldn’t make arrangements or nothin’?? She had to DIE?
I hope all the folks that threw so much as a pebble at her get ‘flicted with something they can’t get rid of.
#resther&herbabiessoul
I remember when I was younger about 16 or 17 my mama made me and this boy cover our eyes on some movie and I don’t even think it was nothing but kissing,
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My mama used to stay telling us to cover our eyes. I used to peek my azz off
Mistaken you saying there were songs and movies out parents ain’t want us to hear bought me back to DO ME BABY. When my momma and aunts heard the line ” Ohhhhhhh NO; I need a body bag” all of the hell broke lose and they liked BBD. My H-Town Tape was chucked out a moving vehicle
my mom didn’t play it! Once I tuned 13 though she was good with it all 
but before :stop: what they just say??!?!?