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05-03-2006, 07:24 PM

Woman beheads husband who wanted 4th wife

Police say wife confessed to killing, saying she was pushed over the edge

http://media.msnbc.msn.com/i/msnbc/Components/Sources/sourceReuters.gif (http://www.reuters.com/) Updated: 5:41 a.m. ET May 3, 2006

KARACHI, Pakistan - A Pakistani woman beheaded her husband, chopped up his body and dumped the dismembered parts in a sewerage drain after he announced plans to take a fourth wife, police said on Wednesday.
Police said Majeeda Khatoon killed her husband, a well-off building contractor, while he was asleep, and cut his body into seven pieces with the help of two male relatives in Gulshan-e-Hadeed, a township on the outskirts of the southern city of Karachi.
“When we questioned her, after the deceased’s brother came to us for help, she confessed to the crime,” police official Nazar Mohammad Mangrio told Reuters.
Khatoon, 45, was arrested late last week and has been remanded in custody while the police frame charges against her.
Khatoon said her 55-year-old husband had taken other wives and flaunted his infidelity, but she was pushed over the edge when he announced plans to take a fourth wife, according to the police officer.
Islam permits men to take up to four wives, and while polygamy is not the norm in Pakistan, it is not rare either.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12606580/

LazyLob

05-05-2006, 04:29 AM

He should have stuck to PlayBoy ,,,, Oh yeah wait a minute .....ROFL

They love their prön in Pakistan:-

Issue No : 48 1/July/2004
A challenge for the real world

Danger for children at Pakistan’s cafés

by Tufail Muhammad, Pakistan Paediatric Association, ECPAT Affiliate Member, Pakistan

Pakistan may not be in the front rank of countries with a high degree of computer usage and Internet connectivity. But 1812 cities and villages in the country are connected to the net, up from just 350 three years ago, while an estimated 2 million people in the country now go online. Favourable official policies on information technology have encouraged this increase and similarly, cable television has crept into homes across the country. For the most part, Pakistani society has embraced these new technologies. However, along with easier Internet access and its benefits has come the problem of online pornography.

There appears to be a high demand for pornography in Pakistan, where clandestine mini cinemas screen pornographic material, and pornographic videos and CDs can be easily bought or rented on the black market. The country’s Internet service providers (ISPs) estimate that more than 60 per cent of Internet users in Pakistan visit pornographic sites regularly and many such users, both children and adults, go to cafes or clubs to access the net. Yet the production, exhibition, sale, hire and distribution of ‘obscene literature and advertisements’ is illegal, and sections of the penal code make it an offence to sell, rent, distribute, exhibit or circulate such material to anyone aged under 20. There are, however, no legal provisions specifically to protect children from being used in the production of pornography, or to address crimes relating to online child pornography. In addition, little attention is paid to the potential for pornography to be employed as a tool by adults seeking to sexually harm a child, whereby a targeted child is encouraged or made to view pornographic images as a means to desensitise the child and ‘groom’ him or her into a situation of sexual abuse and exploitation.

Across Pakistan, Internet clubs are generally located in busy markets and shopping plazas, though some are in semi-residential areas. The clubs range from well-maintained and well-equipped facilities to spartan kiosks housing a few outdated machines. A typical club is small, and usually has about 10 to 20 personal computers along with a server and a counter for the manager, who is commonly the club’s owner. The doors of these clubs are made of coloured or tinted glass. Inside, there are usually small wooden or cardboard cabins, each with a PC facing away from the door. A narrow passage runs between the cabins. Many clubs have cabins with two chairs and a door, which can be locked from the inside. Children are subject to little supervision inside the cabins.

The clubs provide a PC with facilities for Internet chatting, browsing, and audio and video clipping. Headphones are available at no extra cost and users can bring their own CDs to listen to songs or watch movies, whatever the rating.

Almost 80 per cent of children (mostly boys) who visit the clubs access pornographic material, according to a study by the Pakistan Paediatric Association (PPA) and Save the Children Sweden (Exposure of children to pornography at the Internet cafes of Pakistan, 2001.) The study in Karachi, Lahore and Peshawar found that some of the children chat online, but more often they download pornographic images or watch pornographic movies. The children, aged from 12 to 18, come from two social strata: young labourers who pool their earnings and visit the cafes to access pornography together and the lower middle class who are familiar with computers. The second group may have PCs at home but are unlikely to access pornography while with their family. They may spend most of their pocket money on the net and many pool money or get it through other means. Many children interviewed for the study said they accessed pornography for fun and usually shared their experience with friends. The owners informed the interviewers that some children watched sex movies on rented CD-ROMs. The study also referred to newspaper reports alleging that children had been secretly photographed and filmed in booths at the clubs.

The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has blocked more than 10,000 pornography websites in the past two years and framed a code of conduct for Internet clubs. The code is not legally binding, but the PTA has issued public warnings to club owners, and in some cases local authorities have raided clubs and confiscated pornographic materials. The ground situation, however, has changed very little. In the meantime, the Government is considering developing a project to distribute free web-filtering software to parents and club owners through the PTA’s website. The software would be secured by a password and only the installer could remove or disable it. Its use could be made mandatory for the clubs and industry experts estimate at least 25 per cent of Pakistan’s Internet users would take advantage of it.

Since 2003, the PPA and Save the Children Sweden have held several seminars and meetings with Internet club owners, ISPs, parents, teachers, media representatives and children to address concerns about children’s access to online pornography, and the consequences of this. PPA has also developed and disseminated a local adaptation of ECPAT’s NetSmart rules on safe Internet usage by children. At the consultations, most club owners opined that pornographic websites should be blocked at the ISP level, while ISPs said that this was technically difficult. They recommended more efficient control and supervision at the clubs, and changes to the cabin system. Parents felt it was impossible for them to control their children’s usage of the Internet at home.

The efforts of the Working Group on Child Sexual Abuse and Commercial Sexual Exploitation, which comprises PPA, the National Commission on Child Welfare and Development, Sahil, Rozan, Sach, Vision, Save the Children Sweden and Save the Children UK, have spurred a national debate on concerns about the risks posed to children by the Internet, and encouraged the PTA to take actions. This group has initiated discussions with parliamentarians and will hold a national consultation with stakeholders in October to address concerns about pornography, the Internet and Internet clubs.

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