Punjab

Cheating spouses: Man strangles wife in front of entire village

Police have registered a case on Noor Jahan’s brothers request.

Express May 29, 2011

FAISALABAD:

A man strangled his wife to death after he suspected her of having an affair. The incident occurred in Mamukanjan, nearly 75km from Faisalabad on Saturday evening.

Noor Jahan, 32, was married to Ghuam Mustafa, 51, nearly 15 years ago. The couple had three daughters and two sons. According to police officials, Noor Jahan’s brother Muhammad Ali recently moved a complaint with the area police alleging that his sister was publicly tortured by her husband Ghulam Mustafa.

“He tied her up outside his house and a large crowd gathered to see her being beaten with sticks and cut with a knife until she fainted,” Ali said.

Police officials discovered that ten years ago Ghulam Mustafa got a job in Saudi Arabia and used to return to his village in Faisalabad once every two years. During his absence, Noor Jahan allegedly developed relations with a neighbour Kashif.

Several villagers told Mustafa about his wife’s affair and on Saturday, he publicly tortured her and later strangled her with an electric wire. The police have registered a case under Section 302 of the Pakistan Penal Code but the accused is still at large. SHO Mamukanjan Sher Asghar told reporters that a police team had been constituted for the arrest of the accused. He said that the accused would be arrested within next 48 hours.

Published in The Express Tribune, May 30^th, 2011.

COMMENTS (15)

washaba | 13 years ago | Reply Maria and Jehanzeb, how often do you hear of similar incidents taking place in Arabia? How often do the so called 'honor killings' occur say in any of the Gulf countries? Why you guys seem to blame religion for every wrong thing a Muslim does? Is everyone with a Muslim name a practicing Muslim? And does every practicing Muslim fully know the teachings of Islam? Your attitude shows you know nothing about either Islam or religions in general. Everybody with a Muslim name is not a Muslim, and every practicing Muslim does not know the fundamentals of Islam. So please stop talking about religion, and blame it on the person. You guys out there seem to be so much brainwashed by the media - especially western - that you don't seem to have your own independent thought. If the same incident took place in some western country (and they do happen there as well) and was committed by some Christian (and they do commit them too), how many of you would blame Christianity for that?? The media is so biased, and many folks out there so blind!! When a condemnable act is committed by someone with a Muslim name, they first show their religion. But when the same act is committed by a non-muslim, religion takes a back seat. Take the example of Indian media. Muslims (rather those with Muslim names) are not the only terrorist there. In fact Maoists (who happen to be mostly Hindus) in India have killed more than Muslims have. Have you heard the phrase 'Hindu terrorists'? LTTE in Sri Lanka were doing what Kashmiris, or for that matter any freedom fighters, do. Was their act blamed on Hinduism? You guys must clear up your minds. Be independent thinkers and don't follow what biased media tout. The particular act above is certainly condemnable, and must be condemned. But blaming the teachings of Islam or the man's staying in SA are stupid acts.

Maria | 13 years ago | Reply He probably learned how to treat women by his time spent in Saudi Arabia. This type of behaviour is not acceptable in Pakistan and if he wants to treat women like they do in Arabia, he should move back to Arabia.

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mahmood | 13 years ago | Reply A deranged husband committing this crime is bad -- but a large crowd sat back and watched it without doing anything and that says something horrible about the culture in Pakistan.

I miss LUCY | 13 years ago | Reply psychology. mental illness.. that needs treatment and before that it needs to be recognized as disease. irrational violence is more than often a case of person being MPD, bipolar, schizophrenic..

Cautious | 13 years ago | Reply Ever hear of divorce?

Malay | 13 years ago | Reply @Tariq simply superb. @others who are criticising Tariq, get the hint. a hint is not a full story. he surely doesn't mean every body who lives in Saudi Arabia is a barbarian.

Yggr | 13 years ago | Reply @Tariq: Continuing with your reasoning would render everyone living in Pakistan as barbarian too!

Maulana Diesel | 13 years ago | Reply Shame on the neighbours who told the husband about his wife having an affair and then watched as he beat his wife to death - i hope they live the rest of their lives thinking about what they had done. An FIR should be written against these people. Also, if the husband is such a "man of honour" why didn't he go after kashif?

OA | 13 years ago | Reply @Tariq: So that means anyone who has gone to Saudi Arabia or has worked there or has lived there over some period of time is a barbarian?

Tariq | 13 years ago | Reply Guy had a job in Saudi Arabia. There's your answer to his barbarianism.

Aryabhat | 13 years ago | Reply Humans do abuse humans because they "can" - be it in Africa or Pakistan. This man knows that no one - not his brothers, his sisters, his mother, his friends, his area's Police SHO, his "liberal - civil socoety" lawyers, no one is going to say "you did this wrong brother! Now you face the punishment!" Face it! That is what today's Pakistan is!

ali sajjad | 13 years ago | Reply such kind of incidents are not honor killings but on ground have different stories...if media should highlight these nasty acts of so called honorable "men", incidents can be bring down...

muhammad jehanzeb | 13 years ago | Reply @tanvir rana: when women are told by religion that they are inferior to men as their evidence in court is worth only half that of a mard-e-momin,that when their father dies their inheritance will be much less then that of their brothers only becuase of their gender then such crimes will continue as women are brainwashed from birth to accept that they are inferior to men & god has judged this so & boys learn from birth that they are superior to the women in the society & they then act superior & make sure they remind any woman who dares assert herself that she is infact inferior to him as it has been judged so by divine law.

zohair imran | 13 years ago | Reply For once i would love to read a report of how a woman killed her husband when she caught him sleeping with another woman,why is it only that a man's ghairat is offended by a cheating wife but never a wife's ghairat is offended by a cheating majazi khuda?

tanvir rana | 13 years ago | Reply why do our men think of women as their personal property? This fanatic tied up a woman in front of the entire village & tortured her before killing her in full public view & no one stopped him,this shows the sick misogynistic mentality that our people have.A woman's body is her own & isn't the property of the men in her family. Why don't we ever hear of wives or sisters or daughters killing their husbands,brothers or fathers for having one-night stands? why don't our women leave their husbands who on the 'business trips' cheat on their wives with prostitutes & their wives know this but still shamelessly cling onto their majazi khudas for his tankhwa.It's time our society both men & women changed their dark ages mentality .

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