TORONTO (Reuters) - A Canadian teenager who was said to have clashed
with her father about whether she should wear a traditional Muslim head
scarf died of injuries late on Monday, and her father told police he had
killed her.
Aqsa Parvez, 16, was found without a pulse in her home in the Toronto
suburb of Mississauga earlier on Monday. She was resuscitated by
paramedics, treated at two hospitals, and later succumbed to her
injuries, police said on Tuesday.
Her father, 57-year-old Muhammad Parvez, has been charged with murder
and was remanded back into custody after his first court appearance
early on Tuesday.
"There was a 911 call placed by a man who indicated that he had just
killed his daughter," Jodi Dawson, a constable with Peel Regional
Police, told Reuters. "Everything else is evidentiary in nature and the
investigation is in its preliminary stages at this point."
The victim's brother, Waqas Parvez, 26, was arrested and charged with
obstructing police.
The story was on the front pages of Canadian newspapers on Tuesday. The
newspapers quoted friends and schoolmates of the victim as saying she
argued with her father over wearing a hijab, the traditional head scarf
worn by Muslim females.
Photos of the teen retrieved from a social networking Web site show her
in Western dress with her long dark hair loose.
"She was always scared of her dad, she was always scared of her
brother," the Toronto Star quoted a classmate as saying.
leaving the house in the morning, but would change into other clothes in
school washrooms.
