Saturday, December 24, 2005

And these are the values that the extremist Islamic fundamentalists hold dear?

Innocent people are being slain all over the world everyday in the name of Allah for this?

Father kills daughter who married for love
Laborer then turns knife on 3 sisters he feared would follow in her steps

The Associated Press
Updated: 12:04 p.m. ET Dec. 24, 2005


MULTAN, Pakistan - A father angry that his eldest daughter married for love slit her throat as she slept, then killed three other daughters in a remote village in eastern Pakistan, police said Saturday.

Nazir Ahmad, a laborer in his 40s, feared the younger girls, aged 4 to 12, would follow in their 25-year-old sister’s footsteps, police officer Shahzad Gul said.

Hundreds of women are killed in Pakistan every year, many by male relatives, after they are accused of having affairs or marrying for love without their families’ consent.

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