This is what happens in a place where women have no value.
We live in a world where a man would rather kill his own daughters than pay for them to go to school.
The murders were cold and pre-meditated.
Irshad Ahmed, a Pakistani father of four, encouraged his wife to leave the house and attend wedding celebrations, so he could have the time to kill the couple’s three daughters.
His motive?
He didn’t want to pay for their education.
On Sunday night, the girls’ mother, Shabana Naz, decided to take the couple’s youngest daughter, aged two, to the wedding with her — not wanting to leave her at home.
When she returned, she found the bodies of her three daughters — twins, aged seven, and a five-year-old — laid out in their beds with rope marks around their necks.
Her husband had fled.
Ms Naz, 35, told Mail Online Irshad often spoke about killing their daughters — Chashman, Aman and Fiza.
To him, the girls were “worthless.”
According to her, he said: “I do not want to educate them and don’t want to waste money on their upbringing. My only son is my future hope and one day I will vanish these four problems.”
“‘He always said that we all would die of hunger as we have four daughters and it’s a big expense of their education and then marrying them,” Ms Naz explained.
What’s worse, is that she had frequently told people — relatives, friends and other members of the community — that her husband had been making threats, and nobody believed her.
“They are all killers,” Ms Naz said of her community. “Whenever my husband threatened of killing our daughters, I always complained to his mother but she never took it serious and always said he is just joking.”
The education of women is a highly contentious issue in Pakistan.
In 2012, Nobel Prize winner Malala Yousafzai was shot by the Taliban in Pakistan for vocally supporting a woman’s right to an education.
In Pakistan, boys are considered a higher fortune than girls. According to the International Business Times, “son preference” is rife, especially among poorer families in rural areas.
The IBT states the average family must spend at least 1 million rupees ($AUD12,800) to marry off each daughter — whereas the average income is only about $USD1,200 ($AUD1560).
For this reason, there is an epidemic of parents killing their daughters, just like Irshad.
As punishment, Ms Naz wants her husband to be executed for his crimes, telling Mail Online: “I want the same punishment for my husband which he chose for my innocent daughters.”
h/t Daily Mail.
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Top Comments
China isn't much better. When they had the one child policy (recently changed), it was common for female babies to be killed. However in western countries, the preference runs in favour of female children.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...
Wikipedia is not a reliable reference for anything, let alone imaginary sexism against men. Try again.
What? How is this imaginary sexism against men?
Guest is suggesting that western society prefers girls over boys (thus implying that women choose to abort pregnancies on the basis that the foetus is male). Wikipedia is not a reliable source for such an idiotic statement.
Even when dowries are illegal they persist. They come from a mentality that says 'girls are a burden' and you have to pay someone to take them off your hands. Then society got hold of the idea and 'keeping up with Jones's' made it all OTT. Part of me can understand a 'bride price' where you have to negotiate with the family of your intended and pay for the asset which is coming your way, lol. "No, she's an accomplished woman, she's worth much more than that". Although I have an African friend who started married life with nothing because of what her new husband had paid for her. He valued her highly but life was pretty tough for a while.