Peshawar man chops off wife's hair for 'not covering her head' at wedding
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A man in Peshawar's Mathra area allegedly cut off his wife's hair and subjected her to physical torture after accusing her of not covering her head during a wedding ceremony, police said on Friday.
A first information report of the incident was registered on the woman's complaint at Mathra police station on March 27, an on-duty police official told DawnNewsTV.
The woman in her complaint to police stated that she had gone to the wedding of her husband's cousin earlier this month. While greeting relatives during the ceremony, she said her dupatta slipped off her head, which was seen by her husband.
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She said her after she returned home, her husband — who is a member of the Malakand Levies force — first accosted her over not covering her head and then started beating her with punches and kicks.
“There was no one else in the room except my three-year-old child and so he continued beating me,” the police official quoted the woman as saying. She claimed her husband later grabbed a pair of scissors and chopped off all of her hair.
She said she was filing a complaint of the incident with a delay because her husband had threatened to kill her if she spoke about it with anyone, and it was only now that she found the chance to approach police.
The woman's husband has been nominated in the FIR and police say they are making efforts to arrest him.
The incident has come to light days after a woman in Lahore said her husband and his employees allegedly stripped her naked, beat her, and shaved her head over her refusal to dance for them.
Pakistan ranks 150 out of 153 countries on The Georgetown Institute's Women, Peace and Security index ─ among the five worst countries for women in the world. According to 2016 data, 26.8 per cent of Pakistani women said they have experienced intimate partner violence.
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Mar 30, 2019 01:53am
Government should provide proper protection to this woman. It is quite possible that the accused husband may try to retaliate by causing her bodily harm. Unless women report such injustices against them there is no hope such men would be punished.
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Mar 30, 2019 01:55am
........and so it continues. Men decide the guilt and the punishment meted out to women in Pakistan!
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Mar 30, 2019 01:56am
Humanity and sanity have left Pakistan.
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Mar 30, 2019 01:59am
I am glad that women are beginning to find the courage to bring these heinous crimes to the attention of the police and the media. I hope this will open the eyes of the Pak society and make people realize what the women go through behind closed doors in this Feudal/Mullah/patriarchy. This is criminal offence and kudos to Dawn to keep highlighting and fighting for the women of Pak.
The reason men are afraid in the US and the West to harm the women is because of the laws. In the US and West, divorce is a woman's right and if she chose to file for divorce then the courts take away a big chunk of man's monthly earnings and gives it to the woman so that she can live on her own. However, there are much more severe punishments if a man dare tries to physically harm a woman. So again my friends, it is the law (laws) and the carrying of punishments that deters a criminal mind.
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Mar 30, 2019 02:12am
Very sad for women. Husband needs to be punished let the women chop of his hair too. And slap him hard so he would not go to this extend. This is not old era it is 20th century people are living in. Old customs needs to go.
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Mar 30, 2019 02:13am
Too many reports of excesses, manhandling, are pouring in from all over Pak,
it’s a matter of shame when teachings of Islam and our constitution guarantees equal rights to all citizens, responsibility rests on clerics who must aware the people in Friday congregations that frequent beatings on woman on petty matters cannot be allowed in civilized society. Those woman who brought such crimes in Administration knowledge must be provided full protection, and legal help.
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Mar 30, 2019 02:20am
It is very sad. It is worst, because to complain to the police, it could mean instant talak. No wonder women in male dominated societies, mostly suffer in silence.
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Mar 30, 2019 02:22am
Two hundred million people! There must be one or two happily married couples that could make the news with expressions of love and joy. Please try to find them and tell us their
secrets to happiness...
Gordon D. Walker
Canada
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Mar 30, 2019 02:22am
There should be a minimum sentence for every crime, and maximum should be life imprisonment. Because if a person is jailed for one year, and still holds the same beliefs, then releasing him after a year would only release a more experienced criminal, who will be able to deal with or avoid law better the next time.
This guy ruined not only the lives of his wife and himself, but also the child. The law should take him up on all three accounts. Another thing would be to make prenuptial agreements mandatory where they mention their attitudes and requirements from a list, so everyone knows what they are getting into. Beating can never be excused, but a clause like if beating tendencies or culture wasn't mentioned in the prenuptial agreement, the sentence should be increased to life imprisonment with labor or something similar, some few hundered miles away from home town.
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Mar 30, 2019 02:31am
Face facts. Women have little freedom in Pakistan from domineering husbands . She was only trying to enjoy a little freedom at the wedding.
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Mar 30, 2019 02:33am
Another shameful act. The government should immediately establish new centres across the country to help women who have been assaulted or threatened to provide them medical help and to help them register an FIR.
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Mar 30, 2019 02:43am
Shameless and disgraceful husband.
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Mar 30, 2019 02:47am
How backward are these people ?
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Mar 30, 2019 03:09am
very barabaric act . omen are not safe in their own home
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Mar 30, 2019 03:26am
I see wave of violence against women after Aurat March. This means that that March threatened men suppermecy.
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Mar 30, 2019 04:09am
Yes, we have ignorant illiterate men who have no common sense and capacities to understand situations. But once the law is applied forcefully to protect females and their rights these men will certainly reform themselves.
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Mar 30, 2019 04:10am
Why women are considered second class human being? Grow humanity and grow as a human. There is no place for beasts.
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Mar 30, 2019 04:13am
Uneducated and uncivilized people will always think they are right.
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Mar 30, 2019 04:28am
Last paragraph quoting some obscure index is totally not necessary.
The fact is that the system is enabled ( and works in favor of complainant) when such information is made officially. There maybe issues of following procedures but the system is geared towards redress of complaints.
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Mar 30, 2019 04:29am
Islam gives lot of respect to women
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Mar 30, 2019 04:53am
Wells he chopped off her hair, there is no need for her to cover her head. Hope he goes to jail. But known our laws, the story too will fade away.
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Mar 30, 2019 05:01am
This man who cut his wife's hair is an animal. put him in jail to teach lesson.
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Mar 30, 2019 05:16am
One sentence. Cave people.
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Mar 30, 2019 05:47am
The accuse must be tried in ant terrorist court for the barbarity.State should help the lady to help her in getting rid of the husband and later help her to stand on her own foot.
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Mar 30, 2019 06:10am
Be aware of 4th and 5th generation war fight thr proxy and media to shape opinions.
It is wrong but Remember its Story of every country one way or other even in usa and uk also with only shape of event change only
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Mar 30, 2019 06:22am
Something amiss deep.
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Mar 30, 2019 06:29am
If she would have used hijab, this would not happened.
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Mar 30, 2019 06:32am
These are and other so-called macho men must be given maximum punishment. Pakistan must protect all citizens regardless of gender, religion and race.
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Mar 30, 2019 06:32am
I feel pity for that husband.
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Mar 30, 2019 06:33am
The law should not be biased towards women.
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Mar 30, 2019 07:08am
Ridiculous
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Mar 30, 2019 07:41am
A pathetic coward like him doesn't deserve any woman in his miserable life.
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Mar 30, 2019 07:41am
These stories are bring high lighted for last 10 yrs,so ,why the educated media houses do investigative jouralisms, will find out the lack of education, people's really are not taught at homes,or in their religious places how to respect one another or how men and women should respect each other! Plus, Pakistan wedding culture really needs to be changed! What is being done about these social issues, everything is not done by passing laws! Society has to do their part, too !
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Mar 30, 2019 07:42am
Bad brought up void of patience...
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Mar 30, 2019 08:20am
@Zak, Here i see you.
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Mar 30, 2019 08:56am
People must change the society. After all males born from female only. Respect. each other
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Mar 30, 2019 09:20am
@Faisal, they were never there to begin with
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Mar 30, 2019 09:25am
@Javed, no, women don't belong in veils, men like you belong in jails
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Mar 30, 2019 09:35am
@Javed, your views are the symptoms of the underlying problem that allows men to abuse women. Don't blame the victim.
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Mar 30, 2019 10:14am
Fanatic.
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Mar 30, 2019 12:01pm
Pakistani society needs to start living like decent caring human beings.
This man is behaving like a psycho and needs to be locked up.
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Mar 30, 2019 12:01pm
This is simply disgusting! The woman should be kept in a safe house with her child. The man must be jailed, head shaven and all assets to de divided
This is because we are uneducated and do not know how to protect women
Amer
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Mar 30, 2019 06:43pm
Unless state start punishing culprits of domestic violence, this will not stop.
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Mar 30, 2019 11:41pm
Not that i support what he did, but just because chop sounds more horrific you cannot use it, you cut with a scissors, you chop with an axe.
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Mar 31, 2019 09:21pm
Such actions must be brought under control so that our mothers,sisters and daughters can live in peace and a decent life. The man who did this should spend some time in jail and publicly apologize to his wife and take an oath that he would not physically or verbally abuse her again. Nevertheless, he must spend some time behind the bars.
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Apr 01, 2019 01:53am
@Javed, and who are you to dictate whether she should or should not wear a head covering???
We ought to mind our own business. I think I've "covered" enough already.
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Apr 01, 2019 01:54am
@Javed, that's more of a sane comment.
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