Senseless

Another account of an old, ugly, senseless crime. Honour killings

I especially find it hard to swallow when the article says that it was "a crime that shocked Pakistan". Bullshit. It's happened so many times, in so many villages. It's even happening in Pakistani enclaves - much like the ones in the UK.

Speaking to AP in the back of police pickup truck late Tuesday as he was shifted to a prison in the city of Multan, Ahmed showed no contrition. Appearing disheveled but composed, he said he killed Muqadas because she had committed adultery, and his daughters because he didn't want them to do the same when they grew up.

He said he bought a butcher's knife and a machete after midday prayers on Friday and hid them in the house where he carried out the killings.

"I thought the younger girls would do what their eldest sister had done, so they should be eliminated," he said, his hands cuffed, his face unshaven. "We are poor people and we have nothing else to protect but our honor."

Nothing to protect but honour. My ass. Did you "protect" your daughter who ran away from her husband because he beat her all the time? And how about giving the other little girls a chance to live? And prove you wrong? You slit their throats at the mere thought of it being possible - that they might do the same thing.


Grateful these thing will never happen in SG.
Angry because 3 lives were snuffed out, based on pride.