A teenager was burned to death on Wednesday by her mother for marrying against family wishes. Pakistan is a conservative Muslim country and every year about 1,000 women are put to death in so-called honor killings. According to police, the 17-year-old Zeenat Rafiq was tied to a cot and was […]

An 18-yaer-old schoolteacher, Maria Abbasi, was burned to death in Pakistan for refusing a marriage proposal. According to family members, the perpetrators had beaten her first, drenched her in petrol thereafter and set her ablaze at her home in village of Davel outside Murree in northeastern part of the country, […]