Parkistan Mom promised her daugther a wedding reception but burnt her alive

Zeenat Rafiq had been married to her husband for just one week when her mother showed up at the couple’s home in June offering to throw them a wedding celebration. It must have been strange for the 18-year-old Pakistani woman. Her mother, Perveen Bibi, had never approved of her relationship with Hassan Khan, a classmate. Nor had other members of the family, who had rejected multiple marriage proposals from her husband before the couple eloped. But now, all was forgiven, her mother told her. Come home to celebrate so you’re not branded as an eloper. Rafiq nervously agreed. But there was no celebration on her return to the family’s home in Lahore, Pakistan. Instead, her mother and brother beat and strangled her, then tied her to a cot, doused her in kerosene and lit her on fire.

After the attack, Bibi ran outside and yelled, “I have killed my daughter for misbehaving and giving our family a bad name,” the mother’s sister told Agence France-Presse at the time.
Authorities arrested the mother and later Rafiq’s brother, Anees Rafiq, and charged them in the young woman’s death. The mother confessed almost immediately, telling police, “I have no regrets,” according to the Associated Press.
On Monday, Bibi was sentenced to death and Anees Rafiq to life in prison for killing Zeenat Rafiq, the AP reported. A defense attorney for Rafiq told the AP his client was innocent.

Hassan Khan shows picture of his wife Zennat

Many women are usually faced with these kinds of death sentence in Pakistan, known as Honour Killing, but however the July 2016 honor killing of Pakistani model Qandeel Baloch by her brother received international attention. After Baloch's death, Pakistan's ruling party said it would plan to pass long-delayed legislation against "honor killings," according to the daughter of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. The brother of a Pakistani social media celebrity has admitted to strangling her in an 'honor killing'.    
In October, Pakistan’s parliament passed a landmark law guaranteeing 25-year prison sentences for men convicted in honor killings and barring families from legally pardoning killers. Previous law allowed a victim’s family to absolve killers of guilt, making prosecutions difficult or impossible in many cases.