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niyad

(113,029 posts)
Thu Jun 2, 2016, 05:21 PM Jun 2016

story on pakistani woman beaten and burned to death just gets worse--******* "honour killings"

(NEARLY ONE THOUSAND WOMEN IN PAKISTAN MURDERED EACH YEAR IN SO-CALLED "HONOUR KILLINGS"-- F****** patriarchal, woman-hating BS)

and this woman-hating country is an ally?????

Pakistan Woman Beaten, Burned to Death for Refusing Proposal

By The Associated Press

ISLAMABAD — Jun 1, 2016, 11:59 AM ET



A Pakistani police official says a female teacher has died after being beaten and set on fire for refusing a marriage proposal from a man twice her age.

Mohammad Ali said Wednesday that the woman, who was around 19 years old, was attacked two days earlier near the hilltop town of Murree, just outside the capital, Islamabad.

He says that after being brought to a hospital in Islamabad, the woman told police that relatives of the school principal attacked her for refusing the proposal from his son.

Such attacks are not uncommon in Pakistan, where nearly 1,000 women are killed each year in so-called "honor killings" for allegedly violating conservative norms on love and marriage.

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http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/pakistan-woman-beaten-burned-death-refusing-proposal-39530047

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