New York Post<\/a>: LAHORE, Pakistan \u2014 A Pakistani woman was arrested Wednesday after dousing her daughter with kerosene and burning her alive, allegedly because the girl had defied her family to marry a man she was in love with, police said.<\/p>\nPolice official Sheikh Hammad said the killing took place in the eastern city of Lahore, the country\u2019s cultural hub, and that the mother was arrested the same day.<\/p>\n
The suspect, Parveen Rafiq, has confessed to tying her 18-year-old daughter Zeenat Rafiq to a cot, after which, with the help of her son, Ahmar Rafiq, she poured the fuel on the girl and set her ablaze, Hammad said.<\/p>\n
Nearly 1,000 women are killed each year in so-called \u201chonor killings\u201d in Pakistan for allegedly violating conservative norms on love and marriage.<\/p>\n
A schoolteacher, Maria Bibi, was assaulted and set on fire last week for refusing to marry a man twice her age. Before she died, she managed to give a statement to police, testifying that five attackers had broken into her home, dragged her out to an open area, beat her and set her ablaze.<\/p>\n
The prime suspect in the case \u2014 the father of the man she refused to marry \u2014 and the other four are all in custody.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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