An 18-year-old bride was burned alive after marrying someone her family didn’t approve of. Her mother, and brother, tied her down, covered her in kerosene and set her on fire. 1,000 women or more die each year this way in what the Pakistanis call “honor killings”. Just last week a schoolteacher was murdered the same way because she refused, twice, to marry a man twice her age. 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.
Police official Sheikh Hammad said the killing took place in the eastern city of Lahore, the country’s cultural hub, and that the mother was arrested the same day.
The suspect, Parveen Rafiq, has confessed to tying up her…