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December 29, 2005
Pakistan: No Sisters For Boys Whose Father Slaughtered for "Muslim Honor"
The two boys pictured above, Ghulam Hussain, aged 11 and his brother Ghulam Mohiuddin, aged 13, are having to live with the knowledge that their father killed their four sisters. The photograph was released by Pakistan's Human Rights Commission.
The boys were photographed on Tuesday, December 27 at their home in Gago Mandi, near Multan in Pakisan, where their father Nazir Ahmad slit the throats of their four sisters as they slept. Ahmad, a 40-year old labourer, had killed his 25 year old daughter Muqadas Bibi, because she had married someone not of his choice, several weeks earlier, a policeman said on Saturday 24, according to AP via Yahoo News.
Police officer Shahzad Ghul said that Ahmad (pictured below) had surrendered at Burewala, 70 miles east of Multan, and confessed to killing his four daughters. He had killed the younger three daughters, who were aged from 4 to 12, because he did not want them to follow in their (step-)sister's footprints. He had contacted Muqadas Bibi to say he was ready to forgive her, but killed her and her three step-sisters instead.
In the West, it is considered dishonourable to lie or to make false promises, yet Ahmad acted the way he did out of his perverse and evil notion of what "honour" means to a Muslim.
Dog Pundit draws attention to a later Associated Press post on Yahoo News which has statements from Rehmat Bibi, the wife of Ahmad. She had cradled her three month old son while her husband killed, last Friday night, the 23 December:
Bibi recounted how she was woken by a shriek as Ahmed put his hand to the mouth of his stepdaughter Muqadas and cut her throat with a machete. Bibi looked helplessly on from the corner of the room as he then killed the three girls - Bano, 8, Sumaira, 7, and Humaira, 4 - pausing between the slayings to brandish the bloodstained knife at his wife, warning her not to intervene or raise alarm.Associated Press state that the killings are latest in a catalogue of 260 honor killing cases carried out in Pakistan in 2005, compiled by Pakistan's Human Rights Commission. These figures were gleaned from cases reported in media and court cases. Many cases never get to court."I was shivering with fear. I did not know how to save my daughters," Bibi, sobbing, told AP by phone from the village. "I begged my husband to spare my daughters but he said, 'If you make a noise, I will kill you.' The whole night the bodies of my daughters lay in front of me," she said
Posted by Giraldus Cambrensis at December 29, 2005 2:33 PM
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