Pregnant Woman Stoned To Death For Marrying The Man She Loved By Her Own Family

A pregnant woman has been stoned to death by her own family in front
of a Pakistani high court – for marrying the man she loved.Nearly 20
members of the woman’s family, including her father and brothers,
attacked her and her husband with batons and bricks in broad daylight.

Farzana Parveen, who was three months pregnant, was killed before a crowd of onlookers in front of the high court of Lahore.

According to Daily Mail, Police official Naseem Butt said the
25-year-old had married Mohammad Iqbal, with whom she had been engaged
for years against the will of her family. Her father had filed an
abduction case against her husband, which the couple was contesting, her
lawyer Mustafa Kharal said.Kharal said Parveen’s relatives waited
outside the court, which is located on a main downtown thoroughfare.

As the couple walked up to the court’s main gate, the family members fired shots in the air and tried to snatch her from Iqbal

When she resisted, her father, brothers and other relatives started
beating her, eventually pelting her with bricks from a nearby
construction site, Iqbal said.

Iqbal, 45, said he started seeing Parveen after the death of his first wife, with whom he had five children.
‘We were in love,’ he told reporters.