Zahida Parveen, victim of horrible honor killing attempt

Parveen Zahida, says she had no inkling that her husband was jealous. Any yet, on the night of December 20, 1998, he woke her and ordered her into the common room of their three-room home in Sukho, a rural village about an hour north of Islamabad, Pakistan's capital.

There, Parveen, who was then three months pregnant with Iqbal's second child (but still weighed less than 100 pounds), saw a rope hanging from the raters, Iqbal, a stocky man, ordered Parveen to lock the bedroom door, but she refused, worrying that the children might wake up and call for her. "The kids are dead to you," he said. "You are no longer their mother."

Holding her captive, Iqbal accused Parveen of having an affair. Parveen insisted that she had never been unfaithful to him, but Iqbal didn't listen. Instead, he gagged her, bound her feet and hands and hung her upside down from the ceiling. As he beat her with a wooden ax handle, blood began to drip from her arms and legs. Then Iqbal, a barber by profession, traded his ax for a razor. He cut off the lower lobes of her ears, then sliced her nose at the base.

"He next used a metal rod to poke out my eyes," she continues, "and then put his finger inside each socket to make sure nothing was left." Parveen hooks her skinny index finger in the air, makes a half-circle motion for effect and then holds her head with both hands as if the memory hurts. When Iqbal finished mutilating her, he cut the rope, causing Parveen to fall to the floor like a limp rag doll "He left me for dead," Parveen says, " and then he took our daughter and left."

Parveen crawled across the floor, found a blanket, wrapped it around herself and passed out.
When she came to, the next morning, she heard her son crying. Realizing he was locked in the bedroom, Parveen began to shout for help. Two neighbors quickly arrived and, seeing the bloody mess, sent for the police. "They saw everything," Parveen explains. "The blood, the rope,. And I gave them a full statement."

The worst moment, however, was when Parveen's son saw his mother's body caked in blood, her face mutilated and oozing. He crouched in the corner and began to wail. There was nothing she could do to comfort him.

On July 21, 2000, Mehmood Iqbal was convicted of attempted murder. "He got five years for attempt to kill, three yeas for cutting off her nose, three years for gouging out her eyes, one and a half years for her ears and one and a half years for cutting her tongue, " Elahi explains. "All of the offenses run consecutively, which adds up to 14 years." Though 14 years sounds like a slap on the wrist considering the crime, in Pakistan it's considered a life sentence, explains Dr. Ashraf, as life spans are shorter and prison conditions harsher than in the United States. In addition to jail time, Iqbal was fined for each of Parveen's mutilated body parts - a total of 1,090,000 rupees, or approximately $17,000.

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• islam
• honor
• killing
• murder
• innocent
• girl
• pakistan
• pakistani
• arranged
• marriage

[drfunkie]

Are these crimes all Islam or American Muslums?

First, Women are being stoned by the public with the local law enforcement cheering them on in Islamic countries.

Second, Islamic Clerics pass hideous judgments to have women and girls beaten and stoned to death.

Finally, Who are the monsters in this video?

• all Muslims

• Islam religion

• All Islamic Clerics

Islamic = murder and violence. There's no honor in murder.

[Skaz45637]

I'm not muslim, and even I know it has nothing, absolutely NOTHING to do with religion. As someone once told me, people are motivated to carry out these "attacks" because they feel their family name is being dishonoured. If anything, that's CULTURE. Please look it up, and learn the difference.

[khamoshiiiii]

@drfunkie THERE IS NO HONOR IN MURDER and this is coming from a muslim

[khamoshiiiii]

@proudfemale I didnt say i agreed with what this animal did!!

These are type of people who still carry on like they are living in the times when Islam wasn't even found. In those days if a daughter was born they would bury her alive, it was Prophet Mohammed who gave the women their rights!!

ppl call themselves Muslims but this is not the way of Islam nor we get taught for doing this.

[proudfemale]

@khamoshiiiii LOL kid...we do know about islam and its why we know it as backward/repulsive

how FUNNY that you a muslim would say 'get a life' lOL...PITY you don't care about the lives of those harmed by islam and its filth

yep...re also read...so WHATS your excuse for the errors of that era,nonsense,filth in yur man made koran..and if you have read independent sources re islams historyyou should be ashamed of how VILE it is

we who have knowledge will indeed comment on AND EXPOSE islam

[proudfemale]

@Skaz45637 you show you know zilch about religion making such statements

in islam, male 'honour' re females is everything...its why rape victims are imprisoned/beaten/ostracised even killed

whats more there is NO penalty in shariah for parents murdering offspring

blaming culture is IGNORING what goes on DUE TO islam and male insecurity/inadequacy

explain why over 90% of all honour killings are by muslims...AND THEY SAY why they did it, e.g. not obeying, dating,not islamic enough etc

[JuvaniK]

Your religion is fucking disgusting and a disgrace to humanity. Hope all of you motherfuckers burn and die. The world doesnt need bitches like you in it. So do us all a favor and get the fuck out.

Why do you live? What purpose do you serve? You fucking lifeless motherfuckers.

Go fucking fuck yourselves dumb ugly bitches. No wonder you fucking hide under your fucking Hijabs and shit, you're fucking ugly. Only if you had something to hide your fucking hearts with, it's the most hideous thing I

[atrumira]

@khamoshiiiii

I have seen & read enough - your religion is a filthy, filthy, filthy hate crime against humanity.

As for Parveen Zahida's husband, this piece of islamic excrement, the produce of a worthless arab whore, he should be put to death, very slowly.

Fuck islam.

[MankindForRevolution]

Men like this disgust me. Just where in the koran does it say that a man can just go and tear out his wife's body parts because he thinks she's cheating? WITHOUT EVIDENCE, at that? One accused of cheating must be taking to court and there MUST BE FOUR witnesses of the actual COPULATION in order for there to be any kind of accusation of an affair. Unless this guy repents, he and all the people who praised him will go right to Hell.

[khamoshiiiii]

@SkaRocksYea I am Muslim and proud to be one!! u get a life urself! read about Islam and get knowledge before commenting on religion.

[khamoshiiiii]

@cutenu2 How was Prophet Muhammed and animal? keep ur judgement to urself unless u can prove it! 1st educate urselves and grow up!!