Pakistan: Mohammad burnt his wife to death after she refused to allow him a second wife.

(Tank District) Faiz Mohammad wasn’t happy with his wife when she expressed her displeasure of him acquiring a second wife. Feeling that he had lost his honour he doused her in petrol and set her afire last month.

She died last Saturday after spending the past 20 days in hospital with severe burns.  The hospital accepted his family’s excuse that she burnt herself whilst cooking; He said it was a failed suicide attempt. However before she died she informed her mother, who whilst scarred of reprisals informed the police and under questioning he admitted to setting the mother of his 2 month old daughter alight because he was angry at her refusal.