Marriage proposal – Pakistan Gender News

January 28, 2016

Man shoots woman, self for turning down proposal

PESHAWAR: A man killed a woman and subsequently shot himself in Hayatabad, Phase I on Wednesday after her family turned down his marriage proposal.

According to the police, 19-year-old Mehmood Zaib, a resident of Patang Chowk, Ring Road, entered the house of Khan Nazir, pulled out a pistol and gunned down his daughter 18-year-old Husna who worked at a factory. He then turned the gun on himself and committed suicide.

A complaint was registered by Fatima Zohra, the mother of the 18-year-old.

“[Mehmood] wanted to marry Husna and proposed to her,” an official of Hayatabad police station told The Express Tribune. “But the girl’s parents rejected the proposal after which the 19-year-old man took the extreme step of killing both the woman and himself.” He said the police are investigating the matter.

Last week, a woman was gunned down for refusing a marraige proposal near the Abbas Khattak area in Lakki Marwat.

A police official said three men identified as Azizullah, Noor Alam and Noor Ali stormed in Gul Muhammad’s house late Thursday night with the purpose of kidnapping his daughter but Gul saved her.

However, the official added, the three made another attempt and opened fire on her while leaving the house. The accused then fled the site.

The woman was rushed to a hospital in critical condition, but she succumbed to her injuries there.

Gul told the police, one of the three men had proposed to his daughter but she rejected because of which they killed her. Police lodged an FIR and started investigation.

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January 27, 2015

Girl burnt alive for saying no to marriage proposal

By Sarfaraz Memon

SUKKUR: A teenage girl was set on fire by a young man in Kaltarpur Muhalla in Kandiyaro, Naushahro Feroze district, on Monday morning. The girl, who has received 60 per cent burn injuries, has been referred to a hospital in Karachi for medical aid.

Reports said that Sajid Qureshi, a cloth merchant and also a resident of Kaltarpur Muhalla, wanted to marry 18 year old Aqsa, daughter of the late Ikram Qureshi. The girl’s mother refused his proposal, as the man is said to be an alcoholic. Reports said that the man kept on pursuing her, but the girl’s mother and brother repeatedly refused his overtures.

On Monday morning, the accused Sajid Qureshi, who was reportedly drunk, broke into the house of Ikram Qureshi and tried to assault Aqsa. The girl resisted and started screaming for help. The accused then threw kerosene oil on her, set her on fire and fled, reports added.

Reports suggested that the girl’s mother and brother were not at home and rushed after hearing her screams and put out the fire, but by then she had received burn injuries on her face, hands and chest. The girl was rushed to the taluka hospital, where the doctors said that 60 to 65 per cent of her body was burnt, and referred her to a Karachi hospital.

Kandiyaro police, on the complaint of the girl’s brother Nabeel Qureshi, has lodged an FIR against Sajid Qureshi and arrested him. The SHO Kandiyaro Asad Nabi Khichi, talking to The Express Tribune, claimed that the man in question lives adjacent to girl’s house. According to him, this matter was going on for months and Sajid Qureshi’s proposal was refused more than once by the girl’s mother and brother.

Irked by the man’s pestering, the family had sought the help of some influential person and three months ago, the matter was resolved and Sajid had promised not to bother them again, the officer said.

The officer confirmed that on Monday, the accused allegedly broke into their house and threw kerosene oil on the girl and put her on fire.

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September 22, 2014September 22, 2014

Acid attack near Lahore leaves teenage girl wounded

LAHORE: A 16-year-old girl suffered horrific injuries as two men threw acid in her face in a row over a failed marriage proposal, officials said Sunday.

S was attacked late Saturday at her home in the village of Qaim Bharwana in western Pakistan’s Punjab province.

“Two men, Muhammad Tauseef and Asmat Ullah, climbed the wall of a house while family members were asleep and threw acid on the face of S, “police investigating officer Ejaz Hussain told AFP.

He said the two men were angry because the girl’s family had rejected a marriage proposal from Ullah.

Hussain said Tauseef had been arrested but police were still raiding different addresses in an attempt to apprehend Ullah.

Muhammad Mumtaz, a senior doctor at the main hospital in the nearby city of Jhang, said Batool had sustained 90 per cent burns on her face, and her eyes had been badly injured.

Acid attacks, which disfigure and often blind their overwhelmingly female victims, have long been used to settle personal or family scores in Pakistan, with hundreds of cases reported each year.

The attacks fit a wider pattern of eroding women’s rights in the country.

*Name of victim has been changed

DAWN

February 4, 2014

Confession to murder: Man kills wife, turns himself in

By: Owais Jafri and Kashif Zafar

SARGODHA/BAHAWALPUR/MULTAN: A man turned himself in on Monday after strangling his wife and throwing the body off the roof of their house in Vehari, police said.

They said Muhammad Asif, a resident of Tibba Sultanpur, visited the police station and told police that he had killed his wife. They said he was detained, and a police team visited his house to investigate. They found the body lying on the floor.

Police said the man told them he had suspected her of loose morals.

Station House Officer Ghulam Abbas Bukhari said an FIR had been registered against Asif.

The couple had a son.

Man kills wife, hangs body from tree

A woman was killed allegedly by her husband, who later tried to make it look like a suicide by hanging the body from a tree near their house.

Police quoted the woman’s uncle, Abdullah, as saying that he and two of his relatives had gone to visit his niece in Chak 235-P on Monday. When they approached her house, he said, they saw her body hanging from a tree.

He said her husband Noor Hassan and his brothers were standing next to it, but ran away on seeing him and his relatives. He said they untied the body and informed the police, who sent it for an autopsy. Doctors said the woman had been killed.

An FIR was registered against Hassan, his brothers Abdullah Jaffar Ali and Muhammad Yousaf and one of their friends, with Abdullah as the complainant. He said Hassan had often been abusive towards his niece. His brothers, too, he said would beat her.

Police said they were looking for the suspects.

Man kills niece

In Sargodha, a man shot his niece dead following an argument over a marriage proposal.

Police said Muhammad Arshad, a resident of Chak 155 in Shah Nakdar, had wanted his niece to marry his son. However, she had refused to marry him.

On Monday, police said, the uncle visited her along with his friends Maratab Ali and Muhammad Shehbaz. On finding her alone, the three men shot her, killing her on the spot.

An FIR was registered with Shah Nakdar police by the brother of the deceased, who said he was home when his uncle arrived, but had left later.

Police said they were looking for the suspects.

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