Pakistani Teen Strangled, Set On Fire; Modi Selling India's Economic, Tech Boom; CNN Sits Down With India's Biggest Names
GORANI: A young Pakistani woman who police say was brutally murdered by her own mother and brother was buried this morning. Authorities say Zeenat Rafique was strangled, doused with gasoline, and then set on fire. All because she secretly eloped. Her mother is under arrest but her brother is still on the run. CNN's Clarissa Ward reports.</s>CLARISSA WARD, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The 18-year-old Zeenat Rafique burned to death by her mother and brother, simply for marrying a man against her family's wishes. It's the latest horrific example of a so- called honor killing in Pakistan. Hassan Khan, the victim's 19-year-old husband, buried his bride early Thursday after her own family refused to claim the body. Khan says they had dated secretly for five years but the girl feared her family would kill her if they knew. So a little less than two weeks ago the couple eloped and moved away. Then this week she returned to her family home in Lahore. Khan tells CNN his wife was led to believe the family wanted a reconciliation and that she was promised no harm to would come to her.</s>HASSAN KHAN, VICTIM'S HUSBAND (through translator): Her cousin gave the guarantee that nothing would happen to her. We were not sending her otherwise.</s>WARD: But there was no homecoming. Instead, police say Rafique's mother and brother tied her down, poured gasoline over her, and set her on fire. According to CNN affiliate Geonews, an autopsy showed Rafique had been strangled but was still alive when she was set ablaze. Afterwards witnesses say the victim's mother ran into the street shouting that she had killed her daughter. She is now in police custody. Authorities say she has expressed no remorse.</s>KHAN (through translator): She was supposed to come home today. They killed her a day before. We went to her house and her burnt body was lying on the stairs.</s>WARD: Khan and his family say they were devastated. His mother tells CNN Rafique was like a daughter to her.</s>SHAHIDA KHAN, MOTHER-IN-LAW OF VICTIM (through translator): There should be justice. How could they be so heartless and kill this girl. She was our child now. She had married our son.</s>WARD: Sadly, this is only the latest in a long list of honor murders. More than 1,000 women were killed by family members in Pakistan last year alone according to the country's independent Human Rights Commission. Activists say, while progress has been made, a lot more still needs to change.</s>NAZISH BROHI, SOCIAL RESEARCHER AND ANALYST: The problem is that prosecutions across the country is a mess. That's true of honor killings as it is of cases of terrorism.</s>WARD: Pakistan's prime minister has condemned these brutal crimes in the past, but so far his government has taken no new actions to stop the killing. Clarissa Ward, CNN, London.</s>GORANI: Well, CNN has been reaching out to the Pakistani government asking for reaction to this murder. We've not received any reaction or any response yet. We'll bring it to you though if and when we do. Staying in that part of the world, broadly speaking, the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi scored a diplomatic win on his trip to Mexico. Modi arrived in the capital late Wednesday looking for Mexican support for India's bid to join the nuclear nonproliferation group. That's just what he got from the Mexican president, Enrique Pena Nieto. Modi's Mexico visit came a day after his address before the U.S. Congress. Since Modi was elected in 2014, he has been on a global charm offensive aiming to promote India outside of its own borders not just politically but culturally as well and economically. CNN's Fareed Zakaria has spoken to some of India's key figures about the country's boom including Bollywood superstar, Shah Rukh Khan. Take a listen.</s>FAREED ZAKARIA, CNN HOST, "FAREED ZAKARIA GPS": You have a movie fan where you play a fan of yourself, but that fan --</s>SHAH RUKH KHAN, BOLLYWOOD STAR: It sounds very narcissistic.</s>ZAKARIA: But that fan is 25 years younger than you, and that has been achieved with makeup, Benjamin Button (ph) style, you have got the same guy but also computers. Explain.</s>KHAN: I think the way forward for Indian cinema is going to be technology. I'm not saying just make animated super hero films. I think cinema is going to move forward as long as we have technology in the country and we do have it. We've been doing the back end work for a lot of international filmmakers and the time has come that we start actually using it creatively for our films.</s>GORANI: All right, if you want to take the cultural pulse of the country, of course, you speak to Bollywood stars. Fareed Zakaria joins me now live from New York with more on his documentary, which is set to air this weekend. What is it about, Fareed?</s>ZAKARIA: It's called "India's Moment." I think you saw that in that clip. Indian society is ready to make its debut on the world. They are making world class movies using world class technology, creating world class companies. Indian society is bursting to become the next China, the next great thing that happens on the global stage. In fact, more so because they are very comfortable with the modern globalized world. The Indian state remains very old-fashioned, remains very inward looking, remains stuck in some cold world paradigms. This tension between a society that is bursting at it seams and ready to be a partner with the west and a state that remains sluggish and slow is at the heart of the documentary.</s>GORANI: And of course, the big aspect of India is its economy and its GDP growth and it has been remarkable over the last several years, even decades. You had an opportunity not just Bollywood stars but India's richest man, for instance, to ask him important questions of what India will be like in the future. What did he tell you?</s>ZAKARIA: The most interesting thing about what Mukesh Ambani talked to me about was his big new bet. So Mukesh Ambani is the richest man in India, runs the world's largest refinery. About 2 percent of all of the oil, petrol, that's refined in the entire world is refined out of his refinery. But he is making another big bet, which is the digitization of India. At this point, maybe 200 million, 300 million Indians have real internet access. His bet is with the rollout of 4g, the cellular network, in about four years all of India -- 1 billion people will have high-quality internet access on their cell phones. He's going -- he's already spent I think $10 billion on this. His belief is that creates the greatest new economic opportunity in the world because you have a new ecosystem of commerce with a billion people. It's not just commerce, of course, these are people who now have access to information, to college courses, high school programs, to literacy courses. The world is going to come to every Indian peasant, farmer and poor person in a slum in Bombay or Delhi. And how that will change the world is in some ways the great unknowable for us going forward.</s>MUKESH AMBANI, CHAIRMAN, RELIANCE INDUSTRIES LIMITED: Eighty percent of India's population will have high-speed mobile broadband internet. So 80 percent of the 1.3 billion Indians will have high-speed mobile internet. And the top hundred cities will have what we call fiber to the home services. And by 2017 end, we will cover 90 percent. By 2018, all of India will be covered by this digital infrastructure.</s>ZAKARIA: It's an extraordinary story, Hala, because it is about technology, but it is about society, fusing together, and creating this new burst of opportunity.</s>GORANI: All right, Fareed Zakaria, thanks very much for joining us from New York. Fareed's documentary, "India's Big Chance," Saturday, 2:30 p.m. if you are watching in London, 9:30 p.m. in Hong Kong and throughout the weekend as well. Thanks very much. A lot more ahead on the program. Obama endorses Clinton for president. But with such a divided electorate in the U.S., will it be a boost to her campaign or added ammunition for the Republicans? And, he calls Muhammad Ali his inspiration and one of the greatest people ever. We'll speak to the last undisputed boxing champion of the world, Lennox Lewis. We'll be right back.