Shame! a rotten society not worth living in.

I cannot imagine how a parent or sibling does this to their own family member. This idea of honour is corrupted beyond the worst nightmare.

There is a simple truth - no-one should have the right to physically harm anyone whether they are 'innocent' or 'guilty', stranger or relation, Muslim or non-Muslim, Pakistani or Foreigner. The only time where this may be permitted is under the law and by the state and even then most enlightened societies do not do this.

It all starts in a small way when society or religious so called scholars can justify 'lightly beating your wife' - you condone attacking someones human rights. No-one has the right to do this - not a husband to a wife or a parent to a child - these should be universal.

Horrendous!

Any religious minded person can never do such acts. Mother kills her own daughter out of ignorance. Very sad indeed

Now the CM Shabaz will take video notice from London and issue instructions.

It's our leaders where is the country's law

@Pathetic And only instruction and no action.

Zak, hopefully this is nothing to do with India, America, Isreil and more importantly J&K

Another opportunity for the 'liberals' to make noise.@oregata

Shame on You! its not a liberal conspiracy that led to this mother killing her own daughter........

All that "We" "Liberals" of this world want is to follow the principle of "live and let live" ....its your "ilk" that has a problem!

This is what happens when we as a society lack both civil and religious education. No where in Islam marrying out of choice is forbidden. This is a cultural stigma that is killing our society. Majority of Pakistanis shape their lives according to their culture instead of the religon. It should be the other way around.

A society far from religion and humanity tribal culture and stone age rituals drive our society they have nothing to do with either religion and normal human norms

@oregata "Another opportunity for the 'liberals' to make noise" very pathetic instead of condemning the loss of an human life you choose to ridicule liberals this is simply very sick

Wake up!!! Dale with it like human beings. Not Muslim or Pakistani or whatever!!! Eternal Peace to the unfortunate victim!!!

Shakes me to the core. How can someone do it?

@oregata Is that all that worries you? Loss of Human life, complete lack of Values, sad state of society none of that matters? really!!! Thanks for sharing how "non-liberal" see these events. Now we know how void of any sense and intellect are the "non-liberals".

At least the torturer in this case was not a man!
Otherwise we will see an endless line of feminists coming out to condemn the male-dominated society, extolling the vices of hardships women endure at the hands of the patriarchal society!

This is we brainy humans who does all such cruelties.

now is this due to a patriachial society as feminists would say, all men and women are equally responsible for this rotten society

@Mahmood so this makes what you said not true?! what do you mean |at least"? you are 'happy' that it was a woman? yes, women are also barbaric in this society. and also educated people. like yourself.

some people still live in the midevil times.

@zainab My point exactly. Thank you for acknowledging it.

O yes! Issue is not the people who kill their daughters in 'honour killing' but Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy who raised her voice on international forum.

@Voice of Reason : All of this is right only on paper but, disobedience and rejection of parents' rights by the children are creating such ugly and insane incidents. We must have proper education, upbringing and right counselling of our children at right times, for nipping such evils in the bud.

that happens in punjab and interior sindh.

@M.Saeed - I disagree. As a parent of 2, all I can do is teach my children what I believe is right or wrong BUT I understand their views will be different to mine, just as my beliefs are different to my parents - that is life, otherwise we would never progress.

Under no circumstances, whatever my children do, could I hurt them - now that would be the greatest evil on earth.

where is humanity gone? Imagine a 1000 women going through this each year and no effort by the gov't to do anything about it. What's wrong with this society? Swift action and capital punishment is needed. Not clemency?

What a sick twisted culture of death...there is no honor in these brutal murders

A young and beautiful life wasted because of ignorance and fake prestige. How can a mother be so cruel it's beyond me. RIP dear

No wonder the population is moving out in droves. Who wants to live in a hell-hole where people are shot for mobile phones and girls are murdered for trying to live a decent life.

Sorry young lady, have no words but, everyone has lost his/her mind.

Once the kid reaches the legal age (i.e. 18 years), he/she becomes an adult and his/her actions should not have any bearing on the parents whatsoever. This concept of blaming the whole family for ones action instead of the person who committed the act in Pak society is the reason for the thought that one needs to defend family honor because the rationale behind such actions is that what the people will say now, the whole family name is now ruined and everyone in the family is/will be looked down upon now.

If somehow Pak society can be educated to the fact that do not blame or hold hostage the whole family for ones action then and only then things will begin to change.

@Junaid

Agree 100%

This is a lesson for all girls out there. If you are bold enough to run and elope, then do not give in to your parents please to come back. They will harm you. Accept it.

Such incidents keep happening because the law and our leaders tolerate it. The law must be toughened, be clear and be applied strictly. A segment of our society needs to come out of darkness. These acts by some ignorants are shameful and are an embarrassment to the whole country.

Our religious clerics, mullahas and imams have to take a stand on this particular issue. They need to explain to our public that, our prophet has said that "a woman can marry of her own choice". Public needs to hear from religious leaders and not from the government. It is permissible in islam for a young girl to marry a man she likes. There is no shame or disrespect for the family. I don't know why our clerics don't say anything about it.

Really sad. Young people are emotional. Sometimes they do things at a whim. They need to be guided and helped, and always forgiven.

There's no need for women's protection bill?!

@Ahsan Gul Wrong, my friend. Please keep religion and the so called Mullahs/religious scholars out of it. The need of the hour is promulgation of correct laws and then strengthening the laws and their enforcement.

Please do not give undue importance to these Mullahs as they are not above the law. The Mullahs are already out of control and it just gives them a big head.

Fight to force the government to invest in education, parliament to enact correct laws, the judiciary to enforce the laws and police to implement the laws. Take advantage of the power of vote and punish those representative who do not uphold the law

Uneducated people. They please their relatives more than own family.

@Joshi Very nice comments Mr. Joshi.

Signs of a slowly morally sinking society.

What do you expect, when government is not willing to spend money on education. We are going to the lowest era of our times. People are turning into animals

Do we know the full story before blaming the mother? What if she is trying to protect the son who is missing? The truth is not fully told yet.

That's what happens when women are treated as possessions and not human beings.

@Ali jee where are the people family friend neighbor who are closed to these people. Enough stop critisizing politicians. The way you jump on blaming politician seem like you are group of people who saw something bad happening instead of stoping you let it happened so you curse government. Play your part be responsible citizen

A mother sacrifices her life for her children, but the case is reverse here. How such a primitive society prevailing in Pakistan.

My head hangs in shame.

@Ahsan Gul " I don't know why our clerics don't say anything about it." - clerics? they are the problem not the solution. The country's degeneration is because of these half knowledge clerics. Did you not see what CII recommends?

Is this for real? In what world these people are living in. They need to be educated and guided. Very Sad indeed.

And what was the loser husband doing? Watching his new bride burn to death?

welcome to secularism. This is what happens when society is not ready for secular ideas but external sources keep pushing un Islamic culture down their throat.

We need over hauling of religious and social concepts which can come through secular education. Political and social news these days are depressive beyond limit.

There certainly was no paradise under this mother's feet.

Medieval behaviour. Civil authorities should put more pressure in Education and civil rights.

By the way our Mullahs have no say in it for they declaring women being the property of MEN

A mother setting her own daughter on fire...

Hard to imagine a mother doing this. Where's the son is what I want to know.

Nearly a thousand women honor-killed! And that's just the recorded numbers. Extrapolate that back to the country's early years and we have a proper genocide.

It takes guts to love in this God-forsaken country.

@Mahmood but shouldn't the feminist come out against their own when they commit such heinous crimes?

A society where a six year old girl is considered fit enough to marry( a sixty year old guy) but an 18 year old girl cannot dare to choose her life partner!

Till women get economic freedom, they are, and will be treated as cattle. This is true all over the world, In any society. Only a person standing on his/her feet or able to when needed, will not let anyone treat themselves as someone's property. As percentage of working women rise, these atrocities go down. The girl was probably treated as a property since she was born. The property was merely disposed off when it got defective. This would be the mindset in the house.

When will such people realise that they do not own their children? A parent's job is to love, nurture, provide for, and educate their children, until they reach maturity, and are capable of making their own decisions. .

The biggest injustice to such terrible incidents is to name them"Honour Killing" they should be called as murder and treated like a murder case... The word "honour" is a cause of concern and may appease the slaughterer...

It is disgusting what happens in Pakistan.

On Children - Khalil Gibran

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

You may give them your love but not your thoughts, For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams. You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you. For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth. The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite, and He bends you with His might that His arrows may go swift and far. Let your bending in the archer's hand be for gladness; For even as He loves the arrow that flies, so He loves also the bow that is stable.