Pakistani officials say police
have arrested a couple for allegedly killing their 15-year-old daughter
by throwing acid on her because she supposedly had an affair with a boy.
Local government official Masood-ur-Rehman says the couple was arrested on Tuesday in Pakistan-administered Kashmir.
Police officer Imtiaz Ali says the parents confessed to killing the
girl a day earlier because they believed she had sullied the family's
honour.
He said on Friday that an autopsy confirmed that the girl died of acid burns.
Honour killings are widespread in Pakistan, where scores of women are
murdered every year for marriages or relationships not approved by their
families.


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