A Pakistani man Umar Zaib has been arrested for drowning his own one-and-a-half years old daughter, because he wanted a son, not a daughter. When probed he said: "It was a mistake, I made a big mistake. I don't know what was going through my mind when I did it."
His 24 year old wife Sumera, had a very different story to tell. According to her, "It was late at night but my husband told me we all had to visit his sister, but we stopped close to the river, I had both our daughters with me. My husband told me I wasn't holding Zainab properly and he took her from me.In front of my eyes, he threw her in the river. I was helpless, I started crying, Zainab was screaming in the water but when I tried to save her he beat me.
Pleading for help, Sumera says her husband threatened to kill her as well if she told anyone, so for several days she was too scared to go to the police. Sumera says her husband threatened to kill her as well if she told anyone, so for several days she was too scared to go to the police. But finally she found the courage to tell her parents.
Sumera also says she is certain of her husband's motive in killing their daughter. "Since our first daughter has born, he wasn't happy, he wanted a son, He said if I had another daughter, he'd kill our first child, Zainab. When, eight weeks ago, I did have another girl, he kept threatening more and more, then he did it.
The United Nations Children's Fund, Unicef, has a team dedicated to the issue in Pakistan. It says girls are murdered primarily because of cultural pressures and poverty. But for years, rights groups in Pakistan have also accused law enforcement agencies of not taking the issue seriously.
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