article: Farzana Parveen was bludgeoned to death by her family for marrying a man of her own choice. Police say she had died by the time they were able to intervene. Ms Parveen's husband Muhammad Iqbal has maintained that officers stood by as the attack took place. Meanwhile, Iqbal himself has admitted killing his first wife six years ago in order to marry Ms Parveen. Ms Parveen, who was three months pregnant, was pelted with bricks and bludgeoned by relatives furious because she married against their wishes. In a report given to the chief minister of Punjab state on Friday, police say one of Ms Parveen's relatives accosted her "several hundred feet" from the court premises and shot her in the shin. There was no police deployment in that area, the report says, but a police inspector happened to be nearby and managed to snatch away the gun. However, according the police, a scuffle ensued between about 20 members of Ms Parveen's family and 10 to 15 of Iqbal's, during which one of Ms Parveen's brothers struck her with a brick three times, wounding her fatally. Police say one of Ms Parveen's uncles, two of her cousins, and the driver who brought them to Lahore were arrested on Friday. Her father surrendered to police shortly after the killing. 'Honour' killings in Pakistan •In 2013, 869 women murdered in so called "honour killings" •Campaigners say real number is likely to be much higher •Of these, 359 were so called "Karo Kari" cases, whereby family members consider themselves authorised to kill offending relatives to restore honour •Rights groups say conviction rate in cases of sexual and other violence against women is "critically low" Source: Human Rights Commission of Pakistan annual report 2013 Further reading: Why do families kill their daughters? Ms Parveen's relatives had filed a case against Iqbal at the High Court, accusing him of abducting her. The newlyweds were at the Lahore court to contest this case. Ms Parveen had already testified to police that she had married of her own free will. Analysis - M Ilyas Khan, BBC News, Islamabad The twists and turns in the events since Farzana Perveen's murder on Tuesday have transformed a case of honour killing into a tricky tale of love, greed and murder. We have a man who now admits to have killed an earlier wife, and a woman who the police claim was already someone else's legally wedded wife - which would make her an adulteress under Pakistani law. In addition, the father, brothers and cousins who are accused of murdering Farzana are also said to have killed a woman of the family before. A recent police report does little to explain this, except for its emphasis on the point that the Farzana case was not a case of stoning, suggesting that it did not merit the attention it got. This is reflective of a deeply conservative society which tends to condone such crimes, and is helped by a set of Islamic laws dating from the 1980s that "privatise" murder as a crime against the
summary: Pakistani police have denied they did nothing to stop a so-called honour killing in front of a court in Lahore.