Parveen Bibi

Parveen Bibi

After the killing of her daughter, Mrs Rafiq began shouting on the street to neighbours that she had
killed the teen for bringing shame on her family, while beating her.

Honour killing: Punjabi Zeenat's 'crime' was getting married to her Pashtun boyfirned Hasan Khan,
a motorcycle mechanic, and her mother (centre in headscarf) said the teenager had brought
shame on the family.

Parveen Bibi

Police escort Parveen Bibi to court in Lahore.
(Arif Ali — AFP)

Parveen Bibi

Parveen Bibi in the custody of Pakistani police after confessing to the murder of her daughter.

In 2015, 1,096 women and 88 men were killed in "honor" crimes in Pakistan, according to the independent
Human Rights Commission of Pakistan.

An ambulance transports the body of the teenager burnt alive by her mother.

Zeenat's grieving husband Hassan Khan, 19, told MailOnline she came to his house after they were married
beaten and bloodied and asked him to elope with her so she could escape their brutal clutches.

Hassan Khan, husband of Zeenat Rafiq, shows his marriage certificate to media at his home in Lahore.

The marriage certificate that was to lead to a death.

Mr Khan says his wife Zeenat had begged him not to let her family take her back to their house,
as she feared they would kill her as punishment for eloping.

The victim

Zeenat Rafiq, 18, died after her mother and brother tied her up and set her on fire in the family home
in Lahore, eastern Pakistan, because, in their eyes she had married the wrong man.