{"id":999,"date":"2016-07-27T14:02:50","date_gmt":"2016-07-27T14:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beyondchai.com\/blog\/?p=999"},"modified":"2017-10-10T21:51:11","modified_gmt":"2017-10-10T21:51:11","slug":"woman-19-burned-to-death-for-refusing-marriage-proposal-in-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beyondchai.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/27\/woman-19-burned-to-death-for-refusing-marriage-proposal-in-pakistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman, 19, burned to death for refusing marriage proposal in Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A woman has been burned to death in Pakistan for refusing a marriage proposal from a man twice her age in the country&#8217;s latest &#8220;honour killing&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Maria Sadaqat, 19, was beaten, covered in petrol and set on fire by a group of men at her home.<\/p>\n<p>She was taken to hospital in Islamabad with 85 per cent burns following the attack in nearby Murree, but died of her injuries on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Sadaqat&#8217;s aunt, Aasia, told the BBC the owner of a school she worked at as a teacher wanted her to marry his son.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey sent in the proposal six months ago but the guy had already been married and had a daughter,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey wanted her to run the school after marrying the son of the owner of the school.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHer father refused the proposal and they took the revenge by doing this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ms Sadaqat&#8217;s uncle, Abdul Basit, said she had been \u201cbadly tortured\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was divorced and twice her age, so she refused the proposal and left her job when they pursued her time and again&#8230; eventually they attacked her,\u201d he told the AFP news agency.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the teenager gave a statement before her death naming the school principal and four others as her attackers.<\/p>\n<p>An investigation into the killing has been launched by Shahbaz Sharif, the chief minister of Punjab, but many similar murders have resulted in no convictions as families can make out-of-court settlements under Islamic laws introduced in the 1980s.<\/p>\n<p>Another Pakistani woman was burned to death in November after refusing a proposal.<\/p>\n<p>Sonia Bibi, 20, was attacked by her ex-boyfriend in Multan and died of her injuries in hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Almost 1,100 women were murdered in \u201chonour killings\u201d in Pakistan last year, the country\u2019s Human Rights Commission said, although campaigners fear the number may be far higher because of under-reporting.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"float: left;\"><span style=\"float:left; padding-right: 15px; padding-bottom: 7px; padding-top: 8px;\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- BC300-250 -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:inline-block;width:300px;height:250px\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-9441334350567224\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3883394805\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Rampant&#8217; violence against women in Pakistan revealed<br \/>\nCurrent and former husbands and relatives were the perpetrators in most cases, which mainly involved domestic disputes, alleged illicit relations or \u201cdishonour\u201d and exercising the right of choice in marriage.<\/p>\n<p>In one of the most recent recorded cases in April this year, a teenage girl was drugged, strangled and her body burnt on the orders of a village jirga (council) for allegedly helping a friend to elope with her lover.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan\u2019s largest state passed a landmark law criminalising domestic violence, stalking, cybercrime and other forms of abuse earlier this year but a coalition of more than 30 groups have demanded its withdrawal.<\/p>\n<p>The Council of Islamic Ideology, a constitutional body that advises the Pakistani government, declared the Punjab Protection of Women Against Violence Act 2015 \u201cun-Islamic\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A woman has been burned to death in Pakistan for refusing a marriage proposal from a man twice her age in the country&#8217;s latest &#8220;honour killing&#8221;. 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