Pakistani man beats sister to death over marriage argument

[niyad]

(oh, and this family is christian, not muslim)

Pakistani man beats sister to death over marriage argument




Dad reported daughter's alleged murder by son to police. He says an argument "got out of hand"

Anum Masih, 19, was allegedly murdered by her brother Saqib Masih, 21, on the evening of June 10.


Sialkot, Pakistan (CNN)A Pakistani man has beaten his teenage sister to death, smashing her skull with a large wooden stick, because he didn't want her to marry her boyfriend.
Police said Anum Masih, 19, was murdered by her brother Saqib Masih, 21, on the evening of June 10.
"She wanted to marry, we didn't agree on this wedding. We were arguing," Saqib told CNN from a police cell in the city of Sialkot. "She was my sister. I didn't mean to kill her. I've been crying ever since. She was my sister."
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Yousuf Masih, the victim's father, said that he was against the match because the two families were related. "They started arguing. He hit her with the stick, he has no intention to kill her, " the father told CNN. "Things just got out of hand, he reacted in anger. In the end I guess it did become an issue of honor." He added that he filed the police report against his own son.

Violence against women is rampant in Pakistan, according to the independent Human Rights Commission of Pakistan. It said that in the first five months of 2016, as many as 212 women were killed in the name of 'honor'. In a case earlier this month, a Pakistani teen was burned to death by her mother and brother for eloping against their wishes. The crimes originate from tribal and cultural practices and are often meted out as punishment for behavior viewed as bringing dishonor to a family or village.
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Nawaz Sharif, Pakistan's Prime Minister, has vowed to tackle the problem of honor killings, but critics say few concrete steps have been taken. "There is no honor in honor killing, in fact there can be nothing more degrading than to engage in brutal murder and to refer to it as honor," he said in a press statement five months ago.
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http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/17/asia/pakistan-christian-woman-killed-by-brother/

[TexasMommaWithAHat]

1. The father turned in his own son

Good for him. The man has lost his daughter and now his son.

What a warped world we live in.

[niyad]

2. that is so true.

the mother wants her son home (hmmm, sound like another mother we recently heard from?) because he is, after all, her son. not a word about her murdered daughter.

[TexasMommaWithAHat]

4. Women are of lesser value.

Although surely she is mourning her daughter, as well?


I don't understand that mindset.

[niyad]

5. I do not understand that mindset either. if she is mourning, no mention is made.

[romanic]

3. Seems there's Christian tribalism in Pakistan as wellm

What thr fuck is going on over there? D:

[smirkymonkey]

6. What a sickening culture!

I am so tired of hearing excuses for this kind of brutality.