A Pakistani couple -- accused of killing their 15-year-old daughter by pouring acid on her -- carried out the attack because she stigmatized the family's honor by looking at a boy, the Newsmax World website reports today (November 7, 2012).
The girl's death illustrates the problem of so-called "honor killings" in predominantly Islamic Pakistan , where women are often killed for marrying non-Muslims or because they are perceived to have dishonored their family.
The girl's parents, Mohammad Zafar and his wife Zaheen, recounted the October 29 incident from jail. The father said the girl had turned to look at a boy who drove by on a motorcycle, and he told her it was wrong.
The father then threw the acid on the girl. The girl's mother said, "It was her destiny to die this way."
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