Pakistani police announced on Thursday, March 10, the arrest of a man accused of killing his week-old daughter on the grounds that he would rather have a boy. The child was killed by five bullets on Sunday in the city of Mianwali in the central Punjab province.
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The father “complained for three or four days that he wanted to have a son and was very angry,” police spokesman Mianwali Zarrar Khan said. According to the Punjab police, the man who escaped was arrested on the night of Wednesday to Thursday after intensive searches.
The drama takes place a month after the drama about a pregnant woman who came to the hospital with a nail driven into her head by a healer who guaranteed her that in this way she would give birth to a boy. The woman clarified that she is the mother of three daughters and is expecting another.
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In Pakistan, a deeply conservative and patriarchal country where girls and women face widespread violence, the birth of a boy is often seen as a good omen, as he is thought to be better than a girl in securing the financial future of his parents.
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