A pregnant woman has been
stoned to death by her own family in front of a Pakistani high court - for
marrying the man she loved.Nearly 20 members of the woman's family, including
her father
and brothers, attacked her and her husband with batons and bricks in
broad daylight.
Farzana Parveen, who was
three months pregnant, was killed before a crowd of onlookers in front of the
high court of Lahore.
According to Daily Mail,
Police official Naseem Butt said the 25-year-old had married Mohammad Iqbal,
with whom she had been engaged for years against the will of her family. Her
father had filed an abduction case against her husband, which the couple was
contesting, her lawyer Mustafa Kharal said.Kharal said Parveen's relatives
waited outside the court, which is located on a main downtown thoroughfare.
As the couple walked up to
the court's main gate, the family members fired shots in the air and tried to
snatch her from Iqbal.
Iqbal, 45, said he started
seeing Parveen after the death of his first wife, with whom he had five
children.
'We were in love,' he told
reporters.
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,' he said.
Butt, the police official,
said Parveen's father surrendered after the incident and called the murder an
'honor killing.In honour killings, most of the time the women's killers are her
family, said Wasim Wagha of the Aurat Foundation.
The law allows them to
nominate someone to do the murder, then forgive him.
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