ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — The Pakistani couple accused of killing their 15-year-old daughter by pouring acid on her carried out the attack because she sullied the family’s honor by looking at a boy, the couple said in an interview broadcast yesterday by the BBC.
The girl’s parents, Mohammad Zafar and his wife, Zaheen, recounted the Oct. 29 incident from jail. The father said the girl had turned to look at a boy who drove by on a motorcycle, and he told her it was wrong.
“She said, ‘I didn’t do it on purpose. I won’t look again,’ ’’ the girl’s mother claimed as she and her husband stood in separate, but adjoining cells. “By then, I had already thrown the acid. It was her destiny to die this way.”