Pakistan:Stepfather booked for throwing acid on daughters

04/01/2014

KASUR: The police on Saturday registering a case against a stepfather, who threw acid on daughters at Patoki, started investigation from different angles, Geo News reported.

Accused Qari Aslam was also booked under sections of terrorism, police said.

The victim daughters’ mother has alleged that the accused wanted to get his invalid son married to his stepdaughter, 15 and on her refusal he threw acid on the daughters.

Both the injured sisters are under treatment in Lahore Jinnah Hospital.

 

Two Jordanian sentenced to death over 'honour killing'

30/12/2013

The two men, aged 23 and 20, strangled their divorced sister to death in June 2013.

AMMAN (AFP) - The criminal court in Amman on Sunday sentenced two Jordanian men to death for killing their sister in June "to cleanse the family s honour," a court official said.
"The two men, aged 23 and 20, took their divorced sister, also in her twenties, to the garden of their house and strangled her in June 2013," in Zarqa, a city northeast of Amman, the official told AFP.
"They confessed to killing their sister, who worked in a kindergarten after suspecting that she had behaved badly," the official said without elaborating.
"They said that they wanted to cleanse the family s honour," the official added.
Murder is punishable by death in Jordan, but in "honour killings" courts usually commute or reduce sentences if the victim s family requests leniency.
"For the first time in several years, the family of the victim refused to ask the court for leniency, demanding the maximum punishment," another court official told AFP without giving further details.
Between 15 and 20 women die in so-called "honour" murders each year in the kingdom, despite government efforts to curb such crimes.
A study by Cambridge University s Institute of Criminology in June said many Jordanian teenagers believe killing a daughter, sister or wife who has "dishonoured" or shamed the family is justified.

Women kills her 10-year old maid in Lahore:Pakistan

03/01/2013

SLAMABAD: Police in Lahore have arrested a woman for beating to death her 10-year-old maid after accusing the girl of stealing a few rupees, less than a dollar's worth.

The girl died on Thursday, after her employer had brought her to hospital.

Police official Mohammed Yousaf says the doctors alerted the police after seeing signs of abuse and torture on the girl's body. Later, the woman confessed to killing her maid with a steel pipe.

Child labor is common in Pakistan, which has no legislation setting a minimum age for work.

Children — mostly from extremely poor and illiterate families — are commonly employed in households for domestic work and often exposed to verbal, physical and sexual abuse.