Man burns wife to death for going out without his permission

A Pakistani man and his father have been arrested
in the country's latest so-called "honour killing"
after they set the son's wife alight for leaving the
house without asking his permission, police said
Sunday.
Muhammad Siddique became enraged on learning
that his wife, Shabana Bibi, 25, had visited her
sister without first asking him if she could go out,
her brother Muhammad Azam said.
According to AFP, Siddique and his father then beat
Bibi before dousing her with petrol and setting her
on fire in Central Pakistan's Muzaffargarh district
on Friday, Azam said.
Bibi had been married to Siddique for three years,
during which time she had suffered repeated
domestic abuse for the couple's inability to have
children, Azam said.

Suffering burns to 80 percent of her body, Bibi died of her injuries in hospital on Saturday. "We have arrested the husband and father-in-law of the deceased woman and charged them for murder and terrorism," district police chief Rai Zameer-ul-Haq told AFP.

The charge of "terrorism" is regularly applied in
such cases so as to expedite the legal process.
Hundreds of women are murdered by their
relatives in
Pakistan each year through domestic violence or on
the grounds of defending family "honour".
The Aurat Foundation, a campaign group that
works to improve the lives of women in Pakistan's
conservative and patriarchal society, says more
than 3,000 women have been killed in such attacks
since 2008.



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