Pakistani police denied negligence concerning Saturday anew their failure to amass less the bludgeoning to death of a girl outdoor a courthouse, describing it as a ardent murder stroke despite a chorus of global condemnation.
Farzana Parveen died after she was set on the subject of by on zenith of two dozen attackers armed as soon as bricks outdoor Lahore's High Court re Tuesday, including numerous associates, for marrying adjoining her associates's wishes.
Police were self-starter at the scene but did not subside the mob killing Parveen, who was three months pregnant.
Parveen's father Mohammad Azeem was detained at the scene of the exasperate. Four others, including an uncle, two of her cousins, and a driver were arrested late upon Thursday.
Senior overseer Zulfiqar Hameed defended his men's activities, saying one had snatched a gun from an invader, but claimed the mob was too large for police to mount occurring less the killing. He moreover responsible foreign media for their "inaccurate" relation of events.
"It is a routine murder engagement when added murder cases and has to be seen in the context of Pakistani society," Hameed told AFP.
"The foreign media is wrongly describing it as stoning without seeing the background of the two families, which is not immense and which resulted in this incident," he extra.
Hameed plus claimed Parveen's husband Mohammad Iqbal had absconded from justice for four years after murdering his wife, and alleged that Parveen eloped gone him despite already beast married.
Iqbal -- who Thursday admitted he had strangled his first wife out of hero worship for Parveen -- had told AFP he wanted to see her attackers "killed following bricks".
He was spared jail for his first wife's murder because his sons persuaded her associates to forgive him asleep Pakistan's blood-child support laws.
These allocate in a victim's relatives to pardon the murderer, which makes prosecuting in view of that-called "honour" cases hard as the killer is usually a relative.
'Abduction' allegation against husband
In a added complication to the fighting, defence lawyer Mansoor Khan Afridi upon Saturday claimed Iqbal had abducted Parveen two years ago, subsequent to she was already married to her cousin Mazhar Iqbal.
"Mohammad Iqbal developed illicit associates following Farzana and used to visit her following her husband Mazhar Iqbal was not at residence," Afridi said. "Later Iqbal kidnapped her."
The lawyer claimed Mohammad Iqbal with obtained unconventional marriage authorize, a crime if Parveen was already married to unconventional man, he said.
Afridi said that cases of abduction and unlawful marriage had already been registered following police.
A Pakistani court outstretched the custody of Parveen's father upon Saturday, giving police seven more days to study the crime, senior police ascribed Omer Riaz Cheema told AFP.
Parveen was at court to testify in Iqbal's defence behind she was killed, after he was accused by her relatives of kidnapping her and forcing her into marriage.
Hundreds of women are murdered by their intimates in Pakistan each year in the reveal of defending intimates "honour".
But the brazen, brutal nature of Parveen's killing, in wide day in the center of Pakistan's second largest city, has triggered hatred moreover reference to the world.
Officers made the compound arrests after Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif demanded sudden combat upon the measures.
Last year, 869 women died in hence-called "honour killings", according to the independent Human Rights Commission of Pakistan.
