'People! I have killed my daughter for misbehaving!': Woman runs through streets boasting of murdering her daughter

'There should be justice.'

When her 18-year-old daughter eloped with a childhood friend, Parveen Rafiq decided to restore honor to her family by tying the girl to her bed, dousing her in kerosene and burning her alive.

LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - According to Daily Mail, Rafiq admitted to burning her daughter then she stepped outside to tell her neighbors what she had done.

She beat her chest and told the neighbors she had killed her daughter to restore honor to their family.

"People!" Rafiq cried, "I have killed my daughter for misbehaving and giving our family a bad name!"

Rafiq's daughter, Zeenat, defied her family when she decided to marry Hassan Khan, a childhood friend and motorcycle mechanic.

Though the couple requested permission to marry several times, Rafiq refused, leaving them no choice but to elope.

When Rafiq discovered what her daughter had done, she took a few days to plan a fail-safe way to restore honor to her family.

Khan told the local TV station Geo News that Rafiq contacted them four days into their marriage and asked if Zeenat could return long enough for the family to celebrate. Though he was wary, Rafiq promised she would come to no harm.

"Her relatives came and we told them that we're marriage now," Khan told CNN. "They said, 'That's fine,' and asked us to send her home. Her cousin gave the guarantee that nothing would happen to her. We were not sending her otherwise.

"After living with me for four days following our marriage, her family contacted us and promised they would throw us a proper wedding party after eight days," Khan explained. "Then we would be able to live together. Zeenat was unwilling to go back to her home and told me that she would be killed by her family, but later agreed when one of her uncles guaranteed her safety.

"The day we eloped she had been abused, there was blood on her nose and on her lips. She was in distress; she asked me to take her away and marry here. She was unhappy, our marriage was the only way out that we had -- her family didn't approve."

Khan's mother, Shahida Khan, claimed Rafiq's family "had promised that not even one hair on her head would come to harm. We called up her uncle and he told us that they will bring her back to us themselves -- we trusted them."

Seenat returned home and it was not until the next day that her beloved learned the truth.

"We woke up yesterday and found out that they had burned Zeenat," Shahida said. "My son started screaming and crying. ...He said that, 'Now that she's dead, I'm going to leave this world as well.'"

When they discovered the truth, the couple had only been married eleven days.

Shahida stated: "There should be justice. How could they be so heartless and kill this girl? She was our child now; she married our son."

When Khan and his mother went to the Rafiq home, Seenat's body was discovered near the staircase with signs of strangulation on her neck.

An officer involved in Seenat's murder investigation reported Rafiq saying, "I don't have any regrets."

Honor killings are not uncommon in Pakistan and women are the primary victims.

According to India's independent Human Rights Commission, nearly 1,100 women were murdered by relatives in Pakistan last year in an attempt to restore honor to their families.

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