A father in Pakistan has been arrested on suspicion of allegedly killing his seven-day-old baby girl because he wanted his firstborn to be a boy, sparking outrage in Pakistan.
A newborn baby named Jannat – meaning “paradise” in Urdu – was shot five times Monday at her home in the central city of Mianwali, police said.
Shahzaib Khan reportedly broke into his home and ordered his wife to give him Jannat before killing her, Dawn reported.
In some parts of Pakistan the tribal customs consider girls insult of manhood.
The uncle of the girl’s mother, Hidayatullah Khan, has filed a formal complaint against the murder suspect.
The devastated relative said Shahzaib had not returned to the family home after discovering that his wife had given birth to a baby girl as he could not accept it.
Hidayatullah said the suspect entered the family home where relatives had gathered. «The suspect took the girl in his arms and shot her and killed herHe told Dawn.
He also claimed that he had tried to take the baby away from Shahzaib, but the perpetrator had turned his shotgun on himself and other relatives and threatened to shoot them if they came closer.
The case has sparked outrage in Pakistan, with the public condemning the “violent” death of a newborn baby.
“This is beyond barbaric, brutal and vicious. “The only way to stop this barbarism is to hang him in public,” Tehseen Qasim wrote on Twitter.
“I am disgusted to the core. I feel terrible for the mother. See the beautiful daughter he had. “Women lead the world, it’s 2022,” wrote Misbah Munir, another Twitter user.
Human rights groups say girls and women face regular violence for a variety of reasons in Pakistan, which is three places ahead of the World Economic Forum’s 2021 Gender Gap Index.
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