Mother ‘burned her 17-year-old daughter alive after she married childhood sweetheart’

Family members comfort Hassan Khan, center, the husband of Zeenat Rafiq, who was burned alive.

A 17-year-old girl was tied to a cot, drenched in kerosene and burned alive by her own mother for marrying her childhood sweetheart.

It’s the latest horrifying ‘honour killing’ in Pakistan – where 1,000 women are thought to die every year in such attacks.

Police say Zeenat Rafiq’s mother, Parveen, tied her to a cot and drenched her with kerosene before lighting her on fire.

Neighbors in the congested, working-class neighborhood in the eastern city of Lahore came running when they heard the screams, but family members kept them from entering the house, said Nighat Bibi, who lives nearby.

The police eventually arrived and found the charred body near a staircase.

Hassan Khan shows the picture of his wife Zeenat Rafiq (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)

They arrested the mother soon thereafter.

The victim’s husband, Hassan Khan, told reporters the two had been, ‘In love since our school days’ but the family had rejected several marriage proposals, forcing them to elope last month.

Sheikh Hammad, a local police official, said Parveen confessed to killing her daughter saying, ‘I don’t have any regrets.’

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