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sweep_shot said:
They could've had a word. Nothing more.

It was not like these women committed zina or something.
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How generous of you, to just have a word with them.

You’re saying if it was Zina then it would have been acceptable?
 
miandadrules said:
How generous of you, to just have a word with them.

You’re saying if it was Zina then it would have been acceptable?
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I didn't say that. But, it would've made more sense if there was zina.

These ladies pretty much got killed for singing and clapping. That's absurd.
 
miandadrules said:
But killing for zina is fine?
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He clearly meant that he could understand (NOT JUSTIFY)the anger if they committed zina.


Slightly off topic, but does death penalty do justice from crimes such as this? Why not make use of the criminals. Send them to the army and use them as slave labour.
 
msaaim89 said:
He clearly meant that he could understand (NOT JUSTIFY)the anger if they committed zina.


Slightly off topic, but does death penalty do justice from crimes such as this? Why not make use of the criminals. Send them to the army and use them as slave labour.
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And that’s my point. The fact that you can rationalise it should set off alarm bells. Yet he nonchalantly stated it.

As for criminality. Research has shown that it’s actually not the penalty (provided it isn’t punitive) that acts as a deterrent but the chances of getting caught.
 
msaaim89 said:
He clearly meant that he could understand (NOT JUSTIFY)the anger if they committed zina.


Slightly off topic, but does death penalty do justice from crimes such as this? Why not make use of the criminals. Send them to the army and use them as slave labour.
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Killing is never justified IMO unless person has committed grand crime like killing, rape etc. Sex could be a choice not a crime.
 
Two teenage girls in Waziristan village killed for 'honour' over leaked mobile video

Two teenage girls were killed in the name of 'honour' allegedly by a family member earlier this week in a village located on the border of the North and South Waziristan tribal districts after a short mobile video of them with a young man surfaced on social media, police said on Saturday.

The Razmak police station in North Waziristan, in whose jurisdiction the murders were reported, on Friday registered a First Information Report (FIR) of the incident with the state as the complainant and started an investigation.

According to the FIR, a copy of which is available with Dawn.com, the incident took place on May 14 around 2pm at Shaam Plain Garyom, a border village of North and South Waziristan in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

"A confirmed report was received that two girls aged 16 and 18 were killed in the name of honour by their paternal cousin, whose name and address is not known, in Shaam Plain Garyom," read the FIR registered on behalf of a station house officer.

It said the reason behind the killings was believed to be a video, provided to Dawn.com, which shows a young man recording himself with three young girls in a secluded area outdoors.

A senior police officer in Waziristan confirmed the incident and told Dawn.com that two of the three girls seen in the 52-second mobile clip have been killed. He said police were collecting information about the third girl and the man seen in the video.

According to the police official, it appeared that the video in question was shot nearly a year ago and most probably went viral on social media a few weeks ago.

“As per the information received by police so far, the third girl and the boy are alive,” the officer said while quoting a report by the area tehsildar. He revealed that the families of the two victims reportedly moved to their native village Shakotai in South Waziristan after the incident for the burial of the bodies.

The area where the incident took place is far-flung and considered risky in terms of security, the police official said, adding that a police party has been dispatched to the area to further investigate the case.

“The names of the females are still not known as their families shifted the bodies to South Waziristan. A police party along with the area tehsildar has already been directed to visit the area and submit a final report,” he said.

“At the moment, our topmost priority is to secure the life of the third girl and the man before taking any action.”

"There is no mobile coverage in both Shakotai and Bargram area of South and North Waziristan," a police official supervising the investigation said.

"In tribal tradition, there is no place for girls and men who defame their tribe in the society," the official said, adding that the investigation of the case would be a big challenge for the newly introduced police as the acts in the video are "completely against the norms of the tribal society".

The incident comes nearly eight years after the 2012 Kohistan video scandal, in which three women were killed for honour after a grainy video showing them singing and clapping while two boys danced had gone viral in the ultra-conservative and remote district of Kohistan.
https://www.dawn.com/news/1557600/t...ge-killed-for-honour-over-leaked-mobile-video
 
2 Pakistan girls shot dead over mobile video [Honour killings]

Two teenage girls have been murdered in a so-called "honour killing" in north-west Pakistan following a video circulated on the internet.

They are said to have been shot dead by a family member earlier this week in a village on the border of the North and South Waziristan tribal districts.

The murders came after a video appeared on social media showing the girls with a young man, police said.

Two men were reportedly arrested on Sunday in connection with the case.

The two men were relatives of the victims, the AFP news agency and Pakistan's Dawn newspaper reported, citing police officials.

The incident is said to have taken place on Thursday afternoon at Shaam Plain Garyom, a border village of North and South Waziristan in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, according to a police report quoted by Dawn.

It said the reason behind the killings of the two girls, aged 16 and 18, was believed to be a video, provided to Dawn, which shows a young man recording himself with three young girls in a secluded area outdoors.

It appeared the video was shot nearly a year ago and most probably went viral on social media a few weeks ago, a senior police official told the newspaper.

"At the moment, our topmost priority is to secure the life of the third girl and the man before taking any action," the officer said.

Human Rights Watch says that violence against women and girls remains a serious problem in Pakistan.

Activists believe about 1,000 such "honour killing" murders are carried out across the country every year.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-52696032
 
North Waziristan police on Sunday arrested two men for their alleged involvement in the "honour killing" of two teenage girls after a short mobile video of them with a young man surfaced on social media.

The Razmak police station in North Waziristan, in whose jurisdiction the murders were reported, on Friday had registered an FIR of the incident with the state as the complainant and had started an investigation.

According to the FIR, the incident had taken place on May 14 around 2pm at Shaam Plain Garyom, a border village of North and South Waziristan in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

"A confirmed report was received that two girls aged 16 and 18 were killed in the name of honour by their paternal cousin, whose name and address is not known, in Shaam Plain Garyom," the FIR had said.

It had added that the reason behind the killings was believed to be a video which showed a young man recording himself with three young girls in a secluded area outdoors.

"The arrests were made during a raid at a far-flung area in the jurisdiction of Razmak police station," an official told Dawn.com today, speaking on the condition on anonymity.

The suspects are related to the victims; one is the father of the first girl while the other is the brother of the second girl, he said, adding that the culprits have been shifted to Razmak police station.

"Initial investigations show that the suspects opened fire on the victims over the video scandal," the official said. Further investigations are under way, he added.

According to the official, both the suspects told police that the victims were killed and buried in their native village.

"The suspects will be presented before a judge for their judicial remand," the official added.

Another police official, also speaking on condition of anonymity, told Dawn.com that North and South Waziristan police were conducting a joint investigation. "However, at this point officials are clueless about the third girl and the man who recorded the mobile video," he said.

On Saturday, a senior police officer in Waziristan had confirmed the incident and said that two of the three girls seen in the 52-second mobile clip had been killed. He had said that police were collecting information about the third girl and the man seen in the video.

The official had said that the video in question was shot nearly a year ago and most probably went viral on social media a few weeks ago.

“As per the information received by police so far, the third girl and the boy are alive,” the officer had said while quoting a report by the area tehsildar.

“At the moment, our topmost priority is to secure the life of the third girl and the man before taking any action," he had added.

https://www.dawn.com/news/1557803/t...eenage-girls-for-honour-in-waziristan-village
 
The father and brother of two teenage sisters shot dead in Pakistan after mobile phone video of them with a man surfaced online have been arrested, police said, drawing praise from women's rights activists.

The man who shot the video has also been arrested, while a relative suspected of carrying out the killing is still at large, local district police officer Shafiullah Gandapur said on Monday.

The sisters, who were 16 and 18, were shot dead on Thursday in the remote tribal region of North Waziristan in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.

Hundreds of women are murdered each year in Pakistan by family members over perceived damage to "honour" that can involve eloping, fraternising with men or any other infraction against conservative values that govern women's modesty.

Many such killings go unreported, but the 2016 death of social media star Qandeel Baloch at the hands of her brother ignited a fierce debate about their prevalence and prompted the government to tighten the laws.

Police have come under mounting pressure to investigate these crimes.

"Our intentions are sincere. We first heard about the incident through social media and decided to confirm it," Gandapur told the Reuters news agency by phone from North Waziristan.

"We reached the crime scene and found traces of blood as well as a blood-stained fabric. We arrested the brother and father of the two girls who were murdered and today successfully arrested Umar Ayaz, who made the video."

Swift action
Gulalai Ismail, a Pakistani women's rights activist exiled in the United States, said the swift action by police in filing a case the day after the murders was a "win for tribal women" in the province area.

"In such crimes, time is of essence," she said. "And if this is delayed, like seven such murders that happened earlier this month, the incident is swiftly swept under the carpet, with many passed off as suicide or natural deaths."

Human rights experts say enforcement of justice is often lax in cases involving violence against women, with proceedings at times being drawn out while accused killers were freed on bail and cases faded away.

That is particularly true in remote, socially conservative areas like North Waziristan, where women enjoy little freedom and local customs often hold greater sway than federal laws.

"Before 2018, this kind of murder was not considered a crime in the tribal area, neither was it reported," she said.

Pakistan's semi-autonomous tribal areas only came under full federal jurisdiction in 2018.

Ismail said a tribal leader had urged locals to punish the teenagers featured in the video after it emerged online.

"In the tribal code of conduct, this punishment for such acts is always murder," she said.

The whereabouts of a third girl who also appeared in the video are unknown, Ismail said, adding, "She needs protection, too."

https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/...00518181025193.html?__twitter_impression=true
 
A man who filmed himself kissing two girls who were later murdered in a so-called "honour killing" has been arrested, police in Pakistan have said.

Umar Ayaz, 28, is charged with making the video, according to a police statement seen by the BBC.

The father of one of the girls and another three of their relatives were arrested for failing to report the killings and concealing evidence.

The man believed to have carried out the murders remains at large.

Police say they are looking for Mohammad Aslam, and have also arrested another man on whose phone the footage was shot and who has been charged with sharing the video.

The teenage girls, cousins aged 16 and 18, are said to have been shot dead by the suspected killer last week in the village of Shaam Plain Garyom on the border of North and South Waziristan tribal districts in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.

Local district police officer Shafiullah Gandapur told the Thomson Reuters Foundation they initially heard reports of the killings through social media.

The officers who travelled to the village "found traces of blood, as well as blood-stained fabric".

The girls' killing appears to be related to the video which was shared on social media. The video, seen by the BBC, shows a young man recording himself with three teenage girls in a secluded area outdoors.

It appeared the video was shot nearly a year ago but went viral a few weeks ago.

According to police, the third girl - who is not kissed by Mr Ayaz in the footage - is the wife of the alleged killer, and is believed to be in hiding. Police say they are looking for her as her life may still be at risk.

Human Rights Watch says that violence against women and girls remains a serious problem in Pakistan.

Activists believe about 1,000 such "honour killing" murders are carried out across the country every year.

Many such murders go unreported. The 2016 murder of social media star Qandeel Baloch, whose life and death caused a sensation in socially-conservative Pakistan, led to the government tightening the laws.

It is the killing of a member of a family who is perceived to have brought dishonour upon relatives.

Pressure group Human Rights Watch says the most common reasons are that the victim:

refused to enter into an arranged marriage
was the victim of a sexual assault or rape
had sexual relations outside marriage, even if only alleged

But killings can be carried out for more trivial reasons, like dressing in a way deemed inappropriate or displaying behaviour seen as disobedient.

https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/world-asia-52721327?__twitter_impression=true
 
MIRAMSHAH: The Bannu regional police officer has constituted a four-member joint investigation team for probing the honour killing of two teenage girls, whose ‘objectionable’ video went viral lately.

The police have so far arrested four suspects, including the video recorder and the one, released on social media.

North Waziristan district police officer Shafiullah Gandapur will supervise the JIT, whose members include DSP Shahid Adnan, sub-inspectors Mir Sahib Khan and Mohammad Nawaz and assistant sub-inspector Farman Ali.

DPO Gandapur told reporters that the police had arrested Umer Ayaz, who had recorded the video and was seen in it; Fida Mohammad, a friend of Umer Ayaz with whom he had shared the video and suspected him of making it viral; father of one of the girls, Radwal Khan, and a cousin of the girls Roohuddin.

He said the alleged killer, Mohammad Aslam, who was also a cousin of the girls aged 16 and 18 respectively, had gone into hiding and the police were making efforts for his early arrest.

Video recorder among four held, suspected killer at large

The DPO said the police had also contacted cybercrime wing of the Federal Investigation Agency with a request for the deletion of the objectionable video from different websites.

He said the central character, Umer Ayaz, 28, was married and had two children.

Mr Gandapur said as the family had been keeping the issue a secret, it was a challenging case for the police.

“None of the family members had approached the police, so the SHO registered the FIR of the occurrence as the complainant,” he said.

The DPO said provincial police officer Sanaullah Abbasi was taking keen interest in the case. He said the district police were in contact with Karachi police for the tracing of the suspected killer as he used to live there before the killings.

Mr Gandapur said another woman seen in the 52 seconds video was the suspected killer’s wife, who seemed to be spared by the family, as she wasn’t found to be doing anything objectionable.

He said the girls’ family had migrated from South Waziristan area due to the Rah-i-Nijat military operation against militants before settling in Shamplan Garyam village of North Waziristan area.

The DPO added that the family of the deceased girls claimed that the video was filmed around a year ago.

He said Umer Ayaz revealed during investigation that he had only shared the video with friend Fida Mohammad, so he was suspected of making the video viral on social media.

The DPO added that due to sensitivity of the issue, the JIT comprised trained police officers to look into every aspect of the killings.

The girls were killed on May 14, while the Razmak police station registered its FIR on May 15. Initially, the FIR included Section 302 of the Pakistan Penal Code but later, Pakistan Penal Code’s Section 311 dealing with fasad fil ard (mischief on earth) and Section 201 (causing of the disappearance of evidence) and Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act’s Section 19 (unauthorised interception of a transmission) were included in it.

https://www.dawn.com/news/1558404/jit-formed-to-probe-waziristan-honour-killings
 
Pakistan girls: Man arrested for 'murdering cousins over video'

Police have arrested a man suspected of killing two young women in Pakistan, after a video in which a man is seen kissing them went viral on social media.

Muhammad Aslam is suspected of shooting the pair, aged 18 and 16, who were his cousins.

The man in the video, the owner of the phone it was filmed on, and relatives of the women are also in custody.

Rights group say violence against women remains a serious problem in Pakistan.

They were murdered last week in the village of Shamplan, in Garyom region on the border of North and South Waziristan tribal districts in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.

The area is a socially conservative remote region, where tribal law is often upheld over federal law.

Activists believe about 1,000 such so-called "honour killing" murders - for perceived transgressions of social codes - are carried out across the country every year.

The 52-second long video was reportedly shot nearly a year ago, but went viral a few weeks ago.

In the video, seen by the BBC, Umer Ayaz, 28, is seen in a secluded area outdoors with three veiled women, two of whom he then kisses. He has been arrested and charged with making the "vulgar" video clip.

He is believed to be married with two children.

The third girl, who is not kissed in the video, is the wife of the suspected killer according to police. She is believed to be in hiding.

Fida Wazir, whose phone was used to make the video, has also been arrested - suspected of spreading the video on social media.

The father of one victim and the brother of the other are also in police custody for failing to report the killings and concealing evidence.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-52749955
 
Police in northern Iran have arrested a man accused of murdering his 14-year-old daughter in an "honour killing" that has sparked widespread outrage.

Romina Ashrafi ran away from home in Gilan province with her 35-year-old boyfriend after her father objected to their marriage, local media said.

The pair were found by police and Romina was sent home despite reportedly telling them she feared for her life.

Last Thursday night, she was allegedly attacked by her father in her bedroom.

News outlet Gilkhabar.ir reported that Romina was "decapitated" with a sickle, and that afterwards the father walked outside the house "with the sickle in his hand and confessed".

On Wednesday, a number of national newspapers highlighted Romina's story on their front pages.

"Insecure paternal home", read the headline in the pro-reform Ebtekar, which lamented the failure of existing legislation to protect women and girls.

Meanwhile, the Persian hashtag #Romina_Ashrafi has been used more than 50,000 times on Twitter, with most users condemning the killing and the patriarchal nature of Iranian society in general.

Shahindokht Molaverdi, a former vice-president for women and family affairs and the current secretary of Iran's Society for Protecting Women's Rights, wrote: "Romina is neither the first nor will she be the last victim of honour killings."

She added that such murders would continue "as long as the law and dominant cultures in local and global communities are not deterring enough".

Iran's Islamic penal code reduces punitive measures for fathers and other family members who are convicted of murder or physically harming children in domestic violence or "honour killings".

If a man is found guilty of murdering his daughter, the punishment is between three and 10 years in prison, rather than the normal death sentence or payment of diyeh (blood money) for murder cases.

There are no statistics on the prevalence of "honour killings" in Iran, but human rights activists reported last year that they continued to occur, particularly among rural and tribal populations, according to the US state department.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-52811631
 
Outcry in Iran over honour killing of 14 year old girl

Iran's president has called for action to outlaw "honour killings" after the brutal murder of a 14-year-old girl by her father sparked nationwide condemnation.

Reza Ashrafi reportedly used a farming sickle to behead his daughter, Romina, as she slept on Thursday after she ran away with 34-year-old Bahamn Khavari in Talesh, some 200 miles northwest of the capital Tehran.

Romina was found five days after leaving home and taken to a police station, where she reportedly told police she feared a violent reaction from her father.

But she was then turned over to the custody of her family after her father appeared forgiving, the official IRNA news agency reported.

Ashrafi is now in police custody.

On Wednesday, several Iranian newspapers ran the story on their front pages and thousands of Iranians used the hashtag #RominaAshrafi to condemn the murder.

​“Curse all of the brain damaged culture and tradition that leads to the death of Rominas,” one Twitter user named Azadehkt posted.

In traditional patriarchal societies, including segments of Iran, women involved in such scandals are often castigated for sullying a family’s honour even when they're children

The case has led Iran’s president, Hassan Rouhani, to express regret about the killing and urge his cabinet to speed up harsher laws against such violence.

Proposed legislation against so-called “honour killings” has apparently shuttled for years among various decision-making bodies in Iran.

The country’s judiciary said Romina’s case will be tried in a special court. Under the present law, her father faces up to 10 years in prison.

“Without a doubt our heavy duty is the judicial follow-up of the issue and harsh punishment for the perpetrator of this crime,” Iran’s deputy justice minister, Mahmoud Abbasi, said on Wednesday, according to IRNA.

“But this issue isn’t the end of the road. It’s the beginning of a large and terrible road that requires us to take a step for the preventing of the sacrifice of Rominas in society.”

Information on honour killings in Iran is scant, and it is not known how many women and young girls are murdered by family members or close relatives because of their actions perceived as violating conservative norms on love and marriage.

Shahnaz Sajjadi, an aide to the president on human rights affairs, told the khabaronline.ir news website on Wednesday: “We should revise the idea that home is a safe place for children and women.

“Crimes that happen against women in the society are less than those that happen in the homes.”

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...ling-romina-ashrafi-reza-talesh-a9536481.html
 
Kohistan clerics to help eliminate honour killings

MANSEHRA: Ulema and religious scholars of Lower Kohistan district have announced that they will be part of the police’s special campaign against honour killings.

“We appreciate the police department’s efforts to eliminate the killing of men and women in the name of honour and educate people that such killings are illegal and against Islamic injunctions,” Maulana Dildar Ahmad told a meeting called by district police officer Salman Khan in Pattan, the district headquarters of Lower Kohistan, on Monday.

The participants, including clerics Maulana Abdul Wadood, Maulana Ameez Khan, Maulana Didlar Ahmad, Maulana Kareemdad, Maulana Hadees Khan, Maulana Rizwan, Maulana Israr, Maulana Zoohr Allai and Maulana Abbas, declared honour killings a violation of Islamic teachings.

“Killing men and women on suspicion only is a great sin and the culprits are liable to be punished strictly,” Maulana Kareemdad said.

Earlier, DPO Salman Khan said DIG of Hazara division police Qazi Jamilur Rehman had asked him and district police officers of Upper Kohistan and Kolai-Palas for an effective crackdown on honour killings.

“This [honour killings] is a stigma attached with Kohistan society. You should create public awareness to prevent this,” he said.

The DPO asked ulema to highlight the issue in Friday sermons and other programmes.

https://www.dawn.com/news/1562229/kohistan-clerics-to-help-eliminate-honour-killings
 
Bugti tribe’s couple murdered for ‘honour’ in Shikarpur

A couple belonging to a nomadic Bugti tribe was shot dead on the pretext of honour in Shikarpur district on Tuesday. The slain woman’s former in-laws have been accused of the twin murders.

Lakhi Ghulam Shah SHO Muhammad Ali Soomro quoted eyewitnesses as saying that three or four armed men had opened fire on Kamaluddin Bugti and his wife, Mahgul Bugti. The couple, who are survived by four children, died on the spot.

According to Soomro, Mahgul’s first husband had evicted her from their home over allegations of disloyalty. She later married Kamaluddin and lived with him for several years.

The SHO added that Kamaluddin’s family had alleged that Nooruddin Essani, the son of Mahgul’s first husband from his other wife, had killed the couple with his accomplices.

Following the incident, Bugti tribesmen, with the bodies of the deceased, blocked the Sukkur-Shikarpur road. They dispersed only after the police assured them the killers would be arrested and an FIR would be registered on the basis of their complaint.

Kamaluddin’s uncle, Sawan Bugti, told the media that despite marital differences, Mahgul’s former in-laws, including Essani, would visit her residence and the two families were on good terms.

https://tribune.com.pk/story/2249654/1-bugti-tribes-couple-murdered-honour-shikarpur/
 
Teenaged girl among two killed for ‘honour’ in Peshawar

PESHAWAR: A young man and a teenaged girl have been allegedly killed for ‘honour’ and then quietly buried without performing their last rites in Peshawar, it emerged on Wednesday.

According to police officials, the incident took place six days ago and they have arrested three suspects while the victims’ bodies will be exhumed for further investigations.

SP City Waqar Azeem Kharal said that he had received a tip-off from an informant that 21-year-old Waqas Khairuddin and 16-year-old Samina had been killed in the name of ‘honour’ on the night of July 2 and were then silently buried in unmarked graves without a proper funeral in the Dir Colony area within the remits of the Agha Mir Jani police station.

After verifying the initial information, SP Kharal said that he tasked Agha Mir Jani SHO Ali Syed Khan to initiate an inquiry.

The police team apprehended three suspects identified as Saleh Mohammad, Nooruddin and Shahabuddin. During subsequent questioning, they allegedly confessed to their involvement in the murder.

They told police that Waqas and Samina were close relatives and good friends. However, the girl’s family denied the claim.

Members of the investigation team said that on the day of the incident, the girl's family contacted Waqas' uncle - since his father lives abroad - and expressed their displeasure.

Subsequently, the uncle allegedly told them that whatever the girl’s family decides, he will accept it.

Following the assurance, Samina’s uncle Hasham allegedly shot both of them dead in their Dir Colony house and fled.

Later, the young man and the girl were quietly buried in unmarked graves.

Police said that the girl's father and the man’s uncle are among those who were arrested while Hasham is on the run.

Officers further said that they will approach the court to obtain permission to exhume the bodies of the victims and conduct an autopsy.

They also said that police personnel were also deployed at both the graves to ensure that the bodies cannot be moved by the family.
https://tribune.com.pk/story/2253956/teenaged-girl-among-two-killed-for-honour-in-peshawar
 
Another couple killed in name of honour

KARACHI: A man and his wife have been killed at their residence in the name of honour here in Nazimabad area of Karachi on Saturday. According to police, 50-year-old victim Saleem and his wife Hina have been killed by two assailants, identified as brothers of the deceased woman. They had contracted love marriage sometimes ago.

SSP Central Aslam Rao said that police have arrested two suspects involved in the murder of husband and wife. He said both criminals identified as Asif and Ashraf were the brothers of the deceased woman and they killed her as she had married a man of her choice against the consent of her family.

The Police have shifted the bodies of the victims to the hospital for autopsy and initiated investigation. Earlier on July 21, a woman was allegedly killed by her father and brother in the name of 'honour' in Sheikhupura on Tuesday.

According to police, the woman had married a man of her choice against the consent of her parents a few months back in Sheikhupura. Her brother-in-law tied the knot of the girl with his nephew, said sources.

On Tuesday night, her father and brother reached in Sheikhupura from Faisalabad and killed the women inside her house. The duo managed to escape from the scene after killing the woman, the police added.

The newly married woman was rushed to the hospital where doctors pronounced her dead on arrival. The police have registered a case and launched investigations into the murder.

https://www.brecorder.com/news/40007842/another-couple-killed-in-name-of-honour
 
A man shot and killed his sister for "honour" in the Clifton area of Karachi on Saturday, police officials said.

They said the suspect, Hasnain Qamar, shot his 19-year-old sister, Noorul Huda Shah, in the city's Marine Drive area, located in Clifton Block 2.

The girl was shifted to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC), where she was pronounced dead on arrival. JPMC's executive director Dr Seemin Jamali said that the girl had received a bullet to the head.

Police said they had detained the suspect and recovered the weapon used in the crime. Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) South Sheeraz Nazeer told Dawn.com that Qamar "confessed to killing his sister for honour".

The official added that during initial investigation, Qamar revealed that he was a sub-inspector in the Land Department of District Municipal Corporation South. He said the weapon he used belonged to his late father, who used to work as a director in the same department.

Qamar claimed his sister used to talk to a man in the neighbourhood and he had "stopped her time and again".

He said when his younger brother told him today (Saturday) about their sister's "constant interactions [with the boy], he took out his gun and shot her in the head". She died on the spot, he said.

https://www.dawn.com/news/1573281/man-kills-sister-for-honour-in-karachis-clifton-area
 
MenInG said:
A man shot and killed his sister for "honour" in the Clifton area of Karachi on Saturday, police officials said.

They said the suspect, Hasnain Qamar, shot his 19-year-old sister, Noorul Huda Shah, in the city's Marine Drive area, located in Clifton Block 2.

The girl was shifted to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC), where she was pronounced dead on arrival. JPMC's executive director Dr Seemin Jamali said that the girl had received a bullet to the head.

Police said they had detained the suspect and recovered the weapon used in the crime. Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) South Sheeraz Nazeer told Dawn.com that Qamar "confessed to killing his sister for honour".

The official added that during initial investigation, Qamar revealed that he was a sub-inspector in the Land Department of District Municipal Corporation South. He said the weapon he used belonged to his late father, who used to work as a director in the same department.

Qamar claimed his sister used to talk to a man in the neighbourhood and he had "stopped her time and again".

He said when his younger brother told him today (Saturday) about their sister's "constant interactions [with the boy], he took out his gun and shot her in the head". She died on the spot, he said.

https://www.dawn.com/news/1573281/man-kills-sister-for-honour-in-karachis-clifton-area
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Really unnecessary and unfortunate incident. I hope this man gets a harsh punishment.
 
A cab driver wanted on suspicion of murdering his teen daughters has been arrested after 12 years on the run.

A warrant for Yaser Abdel Said's arrest was issued the day after the 2008 shootings of his daughters, Sarah Yaser Said, 17, and Amina Yaser Said, 18.

The Egyptian-born suspect was placed on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives in 2014.

Almost seven years on, Mr Said has been taken into custody in Justin, Texas, with two relatives arrested alongside.

Mr Said, who is now 63, will soon be transferred to Dallas County, the FBI's Dallas branch said in a statement released on Wednesday .

"The FBI-led Dallas Violent Crimes Task Force has worked tirelessly to find Yaser Abdel Said," said FBI Dallas special agent Matthew DeSarno. "These experienced investigators never gave up on their quest to find him and pledged to never forget the young victims in this case."

The FBI also announced on Wednesday that two more arrests were made, CBS DFW reported . Islam Said, the suspect's son, and Yassim Said, the suspect's brother, both face charges for harbouring a fugitive.

What is Said accused of?
A murder investigation was opened on 1 January, 2008 after two young women, Amina and Sarah, were found shot to death.

On that day, Mr Said took Amina and Sarah for a ride in his taxicab, on the pretext of taking them for a meal, the FBI alleges.

The FBI said he drove them to Irving, Texas, where he allegedly shot both girls inside the taxicab. They both died of multiple gunshot wounds.

Before their deaths, a family member told police that the suspect allegedly threatened "bodily harm″ against Sarah for going on a date with a non-Muslim, according to BBC partner CBS News .

The sisters' great aunt, Gail Gattrell, has described their deaths as so-called "honour killings".

https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/world-us-canada-53934168?__twitter_impression=true
 
MenInG said:
A cab driver wanted on suspicion of murdering his teen daughters has been arrested after 12 years on the run.

A warrant for Yaser Abdel Said's arrest was issued the day after the 2008 shootings of his daughters, Sarah Yaser Said, 17, and Amina Yaser Said, 18.

The Egyptian-born suspect was placed on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives in 2014.

Almost seven years on, Mr Said has been taken into custody in Justin, Texas, with two relatives arrested alongside.

Mr Said, who is now 63, will soon be transferred to Dallas County, the FBI's Dallas branch said in a statement released on Wednesday .

"The FBI-led Dallas Violent Crimes Task Force has worked tirelessly to find Yaser Abdel Said," said FBI Dallas special agent Matthew DeSarno. "These experienced investigators never gave up on their quest to find him and pledged to never forget the young victims in this case."

The FBI also announced on Wednesday that two more arrests were made, CBS DFW reported . Islam Said, the suspect's son, and Yassim Said, the suspect's brother, both face charges for harbouring a fugitive.

What is Said accused of?
A murder investigation was opened on 1 January, 2008 after two young women, Amina and Sarah, were found shot to death.

On that day, Mr Said took Amina and Sarah for a ride in his taxicab, on the pretext of taking them for a meal, the FBI alleges.

The FBI said he drove them to Irving, Texas, where he allegedly shot both girls inside the taxicab. They both died of multiple gunshot wounds.

Before their deaths, a family member told police that the suspect allegedly threatened "bodily harm″ against Sarah for going on a date with a non-Muslim, according to BBC partner CBS News .

The sisters' great aunt, Gail Gattrell, has described their deaths as so-called "honour killings".

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I thought honor killings exist only in Punjab part of India and Pakistan.
 
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Friday observed that the killing of women in the name of honour had never been an honourable practice, saying such murders should not be categorised as honour killings.

“It will help deter such killings if the term ‘Ghairat’ is not used to describe them,” observed Justice Qazi Faez Isa in a judgement he authored while hearing a jail petition.

A two-judge bench headed by Justice Isa had taken up the jail appeal of Mohammad Abbas against the Sept 8, 2015 verdict of the Lahore High Court in the murder case of his wife, Saima Bibi.

Justice Isa regretted that not enough was being done to discourage crimes against women as extremism and violence have permeated through Pakistani society and it has been brutalised.

Justice Isa says not enough is being done to discourage crime against women

Mohammad Abbas was facing the allegation of killing his wife over suspected infidelity. Saima Bibi was the sister of Mohammad Asghar, the complainant who reported to police that his sister was killed by her husband. The crime was stated to have been committed at 1am on May 17, 2009 and an FIR was registered at the Baraghar police station, Nankana Sahib district.

Mohammad Abbas was tried by the sessions judge of Nankana Sahib who convicted and awarded death sentence to the accused for qatl-i-amd (murder) of his wife. He was also directed to pay compensation of Rs50,000 to the legal heirs of the deceased and in default of the payment he would face six-month simple imprisonment.

The high court, however, reduced the sentence of death to imprisonment for life because the accused had fired only once at the deceased.

The Supreme Court, however, dismissed the jail appeal on the grounds that there was no reason justifying the grant of leave as the trial court determined that the petitioner killed his wife while the high court upheld the conviction though reduced the sentence to life imprisonment.

Referring to honour killing, Justice Isa explained that it was inaccurate to translate Urdu word ‘Ghairat’ into English as ‘honour’, adding that the Urdu word did not have an exact English equivalent.

A more accurate translation of the trait of ‘Ghairat’ would be ‘arrogance’ and the one with such a trait is an ‘arrogant’ person.

Pakistan has one of the highest, if not the highest per capita honour killings in the world and predominantly the victims are women, Justice Isa regretted, adding that by stating that murder was committed on the pretext of ghairat (honour) the murderer hopes to provide some justification for the crime.

It may also elevate the murderer’s social status with those not familiar with what Almighty Allah commands in the Holy Quran, Justice Isa observed.

This is unfortunate, more so because there is no honour in such killings, Justice Isa observed, adding that the parliament was rightly concerned with the prevalence of such killings and enacted legislation to dissuade, if not stop, such crimes.

It did so by ensuring that offenders do not avail of the benefit of section 302(c) PPC, for which the maximum punishment is twenty-five years imprisonment but which does not prescribe a minimum punishment, Justice Isa recalled.

https://www.dawn.com/news/1578016/supreme-court-sees-no-honour-in-honour-killings
 
ITV’s Honour starring Keeley Hawes will revisit the harrowing discovery of a murder victim's body in a suitcase - in Birmingham.

The two-part drama revisits the ‘honour killing’ of Banaz Mahmod, a 20-year-old Iraqi Kurdish woman, who was discovered in Handsworth.

The British-Iraqi Kurdish woman who lived in Wimbledon, London, was murdered at age 20 in 2006 on the orders of her family.

Mahmod's uncle and father had her raped and murdered, in revenge for her refusal to accept their determination to control who she saw and who she married.

Her body was buried in a suitcase in Birmingham.

Her cousin Dana Amin, 30, helped stuff her body into a suitcase and move it to the city, where it was discovered buried in a back garden.

Line of Duty and Bodyguard star Keeley Haews will star as Detective Chief Inspector Caroline Goode, the officer who was given the Queen’s Police Medal for her investigation into the missing 20-year-old.

Banaz had drawn the ire of her family by leaving the man she had been wedded to through an arranged marriage, and finding her own boyfriend in Iranian Rahmat Sulemani.

Hawes said: “It is a privilege to be working on Honour…in a time when honour killings are still rife, it is critical to shine a light on such an important subject. Banaz Mahmod’s story, and DCI Goode’s subsequent investigation, is certainly one that needs to be told and I am proud to be a part of it.”

But Banaz’s sister Pyazee has slammed the script of the ITV drama, which was penned by Gwyneth Hughes’ script.

The grieving sister says, that by choosing to focus on DCI Goode’s story, the drama fails to “honour” Banaz.

“It doesn’t really sit too well with me that that’s the angle they chose to go with because that’s not Banaz’s story, that’s somebody else’s story,” Payzee told the BBC.

“This is about somebody who lost her life very tragically and it’s not about somebody getting to tell their story. I don’t believe that it’s honouring Banaz.”

Scriptwriter Vinay Patel agreed, saying: “The framing on this makes me deeply uneasy, especially since the police did not take Banaz seriously when she came to them for help weeks before her murder.”

https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/showbiz-tv/itv1s-honour-condemned-family-birmingham-18857931
 
SARGODHA: Police arrested a 22-year-old man over charges that he killed his sister for 'honour' after she married for the sixth time.

Police had launched an investigation into the alleged murder of 30-year-old Nighat Parveen after her sixth husband, Waseem Amjad, filed a complaint on August 17 with police that his wife had been kidnapped.

Employing technological methods in the investigation, police were able to trace the last call made from Parveen’s mobile phone to her parents' house. When police grilled the victim's parents, they were told that she had gone to Islamabad with her friends.

Later, police started questioning Parveen’s 22-year-old brother Abdullah Hashim who allegedly confessed to murdering his sister during the investigation.

Hashim allegedly told police that his sister had become “a source of disgrace” for his family for the past eight years. He added that people in the village had also started questioning the family's honour due to Parveen's 'character'.

Police say Hashim confessed that when Parveen returned to her parents' home after tying the knot for the sixth time, he shut her inside a room and shot her to death.

According to police, the brother has been arrested and the weapon used to commit the crime has also been recovered. Police added that a case will be registered against the suspect and he will be presented in court soon.

https://www.geo.tv/latest/307521-sa...r-honour-after-she-marries-for-the-sixth-time
 
Saj said:
ITV’s Honour starring Keeley Hawes will revisit the harrowing discovery of a murder victim's body in a suitcase - in Birmingham.

The two-part drama revisits the ‘honour killing’ of Banaz Mahmod, a 20-year-old Iraqi Kurdish woman, who was discovered in Handsworth.

The British-Iraqi Kurdish woman who lived in Wimbledon, London, was murdered at age 20 in 2006 on the orders of her family.

Mahmod's uncle and father had her raped and murdered, in revenge for her refusal to accept their determination to control who she saw and who she married.

Her body was buried in a suitcase in Birmingham.

Her cousin Dana Amin, 30, helped stuff her body into a suitcase and move it to the city, where it was discovered buried in a back garden.

Line of Duty and Bodyguard star Keeley Haews will star as Detective Chief Inspector Caroline Goode, the officer who was given the Queen’s Police Medal for her investigation into the missing 20-year-old.

Banaz had drawn the ire of her family by leaving the man she had been wedded to through an arranged marriage, and finding her own boyfriend in Iranian Rahmat Sulemani.

Hawes said: “It is a privilege to be working on Honour…in a time when honour killings are still rife, it is critical to shine a light on such an important subject. Banaz Mahmod’s story, and DCI Goode’s subsequent investigation, is certainly one that needs to be told and I am proud to be a part of it.”

But Banaz’s sister Pyazee has slammed the script of the ITV drama, which was penned by Gwyneth Hughes’ script.

The grieving sister says, that by choosing to focus on DCI Goode’s story, the drama fails to “honour” Banaz.

“It doesn’t really sit too well with me that that’s the angle they chose to go with because that’s not Banaz’s story, that’s somebody else’s story,” Payzee told the BBC.

“This is about somebody who lost her life very tragically and it’s not about somebody getting to tell their story. I don’t believe that it’s honouring Banaz.”

Scriptwriter Vinay Patel agreed, saying: “The framing on this makes me deeply uneasy, especially since the police did not take Banaz seriously when she came to them for help weeks before her murder.”

https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/showbiz-tv/itv1s-honour-condemned-family-birmingham-18857931
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Very interesting but sad to watch this.

She went to the police several times saying her life was in danger, but they did nothing about it.
 
MIRPURKHAS: Four of the seven men accused of being involved in the suspected honour-killing of a teenage girl here in the city's Goth Rawat Banglani have been arrested, police confirmed on Monday.

According to initial investigation, the 17-year-old girl from Mirpurkhas was murdered for 'honour'. Police said the minor was buried shortly after she was killed in what may have been an attempt to hide the crime.

Police added that three of the seven people named in the first information report (FIR) were the 17-year-old girl's brothers.
 
GUJRANWALA: A woman, along with her four children, has been killed in Gujranwala, police revealed on Thursday.

The murders, police said, were committed by the woman's husband — identified as Imran.

After being arrested, Imran confessed to committing the crime, the police said, adding that it was a case of "honour killing" as per Imran's confession.

Police added that the accused also confessed to "killing all of his children who woke up from their sleep and witnessed him killing their mother."

Cases of violence against women seem to be on a rise in the country as several cases of honour killing were reported earlier this month.

A man identified as Liaquat Shar allegedly killed his sister over suspicion of having "illicit relations" with a boy in Ubauro, a town in Sindh's Ghotki district to save his "honour," per police.

The suspect, however, managed to escape arrest and fled before he could be detained.

Read more: Ubauro man allegedly kills sister over suspicion of 'illicit relations with boy'

In another case of "honour killing", a man allegedly axed his wife to death in Khairpur's Piryalo Town in the first week of January 2021.

According to police, the suspect tried to flee after killing his wife, but he was apprehended.

During interrogation, the person, according to police, "confessed" to his crimes and said that he had killed his wife "for having an affair with another person".
 
British woman Mayra Zulfiqar killed in Pakistan 'after refusing to marry a man'

A British woman of Pakistani origin has been found dead in the city of Lahore.

Mayra Zulfiqar is believed to have been aged about 25, and news reports said she was killed after refusing to marry a man.

Ms Zulfiqar's friend Mohammad Nazeer had told police a man wanted to marry her and had threatened her with "dire consequences" if she refused.

Pakistan's English-language newspaper Dawn reported that Ms Zulfiqar had bullet wounds and signs of torture on her body.

Station House Officer Qasim said the cause of her death was not yet clear.

He told The Independent Urdu: "The woman had a bullet wound to the shoulder, but the exact cause of death will be known after her autopsy and forensic report, whether the death was due to a gunshot wound or whether her throat was strangled."

Police have detained two men for questioning over the death.

Ms Zulfiqar arrived in Pakistan two months ago for a wedding and was staying at a rented home with a friend.

According to the Evening Standard, she previously lived in Feltham, west London.

She was a law student at Middlesex University and had gone on to work as a paralegal.

In a statement supplied to Sky News, the Foreign and Commonwealth Development Office said: "We are supporting the family of a British women who died in Pakistan and are urgently seeking more information from the local authorities.

"Our thoughts are with the family at this difficult time."

https://news.sky.com/story/british-...g-to-marry-a-man-12297168?dcmp=snt-sf-twitter
 
Police in Italy are searching for the body of an 18-year-old girl suspected to have been killed by her Pakistani family after she refused an arranged Muslim marriage.

The girl's parents, an uncle and two cousins are under investigation for murder, Lieutenant-Colonel Stefano Bove of the Carabinieri police said on Saturday (May 29).

All "are supposed to have taken part in the crime", he told reporters, while officers were combing through farmland to find the missing girl, Ms Saman Abbas.

Lt-Col Bove said the Carabinieri were inspecting "wells, irrigation canals and greenhouses".

Ms Abbas, who lived in the northern town of Novellara, last year rebelled against her family's traditional plan to have her wed to a cousin in their home country.

While still a minor, she turned to social services and last November was moved into a shelter home. She also reported her parents to the police, but on April 11 this year returned to them.

Police have been searching for her since May 5. That was when officers visited her house and found nobody, which triggered an investigation.

Officers then discovered that the girl's parents had left for Pakistan without her, and found images from a nearby security camera that made them fear the worst.

Late on April 29, five people can be seen walking away from the house holding shovels, a crowbar and a bucket, and returning after about 2½ hours.

The Carabinieri have identified the five as the family members suspected of murder. All are believed to have left Italy for Pakistan.

Meanwhile, hundreds of people took part in a solidarity rally for the missing girl organised on Friday night by the town hall of Novellara.

"Saman, tonight you are not alone and you will never again be alone," Mayor Elena Carletti said in a video posted on local news website Reggioonline.

Express Tribune
 
Pakistani girl feared dead in Italy after refusing arranged marriage with cousin

Police in Italy are searching for the body of an 18-year-old girl suspected to have been killed by her Pakistani family after refusing an arranged marriage.

The girl's parents, an uncle and two cousins are under investigation for murder, lieutenant colonel Stefano Bove of the Carabinieri police said on Saturday.

All “are supposed to have taken part in the crime”, he told reporters, while officers were combing through farmland to find the missing girl, Saman Abbas.

Bove said Carabinieri were inspecting “wells, irrigation canals and greenhouses”.

Saman Abbas, who lived in the northern town of Novellara, last year rebelled against her family's plan to have her wedded to a cousin in their home country.

While still a minor, she turned to social services and in November was moved into a shelter home. She also reported her parents to police, but on April 11 returned to them.

Police has been searching for her since May 5, when officers visited her house and found nobody, triggering an investigation.


Officers then discovered that the girl's parents had left for Pakistan without her, and found images from a nearby security camera that made them fear the worst.

Late on April 29, five people can be seen walking off from the house holding shovels, a crowbar and a bucket, and returning after about two-and-a-half hours.

The Carabinieri have identified the five as the family members suspected of murder. All are believed to have left Italy for Pakistan.

Meanwhile, hundreds of people took part in a solidarity rally for the missing girl organised on Friday night by the town hall of Novellara.

“Saman, tonight you are not alone and you will never again be alone,” Mayor Elena Carletti said in a video posted on local news website Reggioonline.

Source:https://www.google.com.hk/amp/s/www.dawn.com/news/amp/1626380
 
Our women do not even have the freedom or the right to marry a person of their choice!
 
Another woman fell prey to an acid attack in Khyber-Pakhtunkwa (K-P), a few days after a similar incident occurred in Kohat district of the province.

Farhad, a resident of a remote Afghan Colony area, allegedly threw acid on the face of a young woman for refusing a friendship proposal. The incident occurred within the limits of Paharipura police station in Peshawar.

Police launched the investigation into the incident and detained the accused.

During the interrogation, the accused has confessed to the heinous crime, saying that the victim had turned down his "friendship" offer.

The victim, daughter of Nasir Khan, said in her complaint lodged with the police on Friday that she sustained serious burn injuries after Farhad threw acid on her.

Police registered a first information report (FIR) against the accused and carried out a series of raids but the accused went into hiding immediately after committing the offence.

However, upon receiving information about the whereabouts of the suspect, SHO Paharipura Police Station Waris Khan sprung into action and arrested Farhad.

A few days ago, a girl sustained serious burn injuries in an acid attack in Kohat district.

The complainant Rozia Sultan, 50, who is residing in a PAF residential quarter in Kohat Cantt, lodged an FIR with the police, stating that she was sleeping outside the veranda at her residence and her daughter Irham Gul, 20, was sleeping in her room.

At night Irham rushed out screaming with an injured face as someone had thrown acid at her, leaving her badly injured.

https://tribune.com.pk/story/230848...-womans-face-for-refusing-friendship-proposal
 
Newlywed couple hanged to death in Mansehra

MANSEHRA: A newlywed couple was killed for honour in the Batrair area in the outskirts of the city, police said on Friday.

“We have arrested three of the six accused who had contacted the girl and man for reconciliation and hanged both of them to death,” Rabnawaz, the SHO Saddar Police Station, told reporters here.

He said Muhammad Bashir told the police that Samara Bibi and his son, Muhammad Zia had married on their own free will on July 17 and had left for Islamabad.

“Muhammad Safdar, the father of my daughter-in-law, called the couple back to his home deceiving them that as he and his other family members wanted to pardon them at a jirga,” he said.

But Muhammad Safar and five other members of his family killed them by hanging them with a tree outside their home,” he alleged.

The police rushed to the scene following the complaint and shifted the bodies to the King Abdullah Teaching Hospital for the autopsy.

The SHO said that Muhammad Safdar and two other accused were arrested and raids for the arrest of other accused booked were underway.

He said that nobody was above the law and those who committed the gruesome act would be brought to justice soon.

Source: https://www.google.com.hk/amp/s/www...6-newlywed-couple-hanged-to-death-in-mansehra
 
The perps need to be executed and their mugshots plastered everywhere, they need to make an example out of them.
 
In another grotesque crime, a former husband tortured a woman and later chopped off her nose in Rawalpindi’s Gojar Khan area on Thursday.

According to Express News, 32-year-old Maryam Bibi from Mirpur in Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) was visiting her relative's house in Gojar Khan's village Dalmi where her ex-husband, Taj Din, along with his accomplices tortured her and cut off her nose.

The injured woman has been shifted to the hospital where her condition is said to be stable.

Read Man allegedly sets wife ablaze in Okara

In her statement to the police, Maryam Bibi said she had divorced Taj Din, also a resident of Mirpur, and married Ghulam Farid of Gujarat eight months ago.

She added that the assailant, along with some people, forcibly took her to Mirpur from Gujarat.

When her husband came to rescue her the assailant called the police, who later handed over the woman to the assailant since the husband did not have a marriage certificate to show at the time.

She further stated that on the evening of July 27 Taj Din took her to Dhok Major, Rawat to visit a family elder with his sister. However, the assailant later took her to an open space where two more unidentified people were already present.

“Taj Din tied up my hands and feet and cut off my nose with a dagger,” she said, adding that he then also tried to cut off her foot. The culprits fled the scene only after a hue and cry was raised.

A case has been registered against the former husband and sections 334, 148 and 149 have been added to the lawsuit relating to injuries and bodily harm, the local police stated.

'Absolutely intolerable'

According to Rawalpindi police, raids were being carried out to arrest the culprits.

Taking notice of the incident, Central Police Office (CPO) Rawalpindi Muhammad Ahsan Younis directed SP Saddar to register a case against the accused and ordered his immediate arrest.

Read more Man held for killing wife

The CPO stated that, "Violence, abuse and exploitation of women is absolutely intolerable."

“The Rawalpindi police has a zero tolerance policy against the accused involved in such heinous crimes,” the CPO maintained.

He further added that, “The ruthless accused responsible for this tragic incident will be arrested and sentenced.”
 
FAISALABAD: Two girls were reportedly murdered in Faisalabad's Bhains Colony in the name of honour, Geo News reported Sunday, citing police officials.

Police were told that two girls, after being murdered in a house in Faisalabad, were being transported to Bhawana in Chiniot to be buried.

The police acted in time and apprehended the family members of the girls before they could bury the dead bodies.

The dead bodies were taken into custody and have been sent for post-mortem at Allied Hospital.

The police, in presence of one of the victim’s mothers, have filed a murder case against victim one’s brother-in-law and victim two’s father. A search for both suspects is underway, police officials reported.

GEO
 
LAHORE: Police arrested slain model Nayab Nadeem's stepbrother for allegedly murdering her, sources confirmed to Geo News Sunday.

Nayab, 29, was found murdered at her Defence B residence on July 11. The model, who lived alone, had been strangled to death after being tortured, police had said.

Police informed Geo News that the suspect had confessed to murdering his stepsister, adding that evidence collected from the scene of the crime confirmed his involvement.

Police sources told Geo News that fingerprint samples from the door of the model's residence matched with those of her stepbrother's, indicating that he was the only one who had been at her residence that day.

It is important to mention that her stepbrother was the first one to have found her body and reported the incident to police.

Delving into details of the murder, police said the suspect killed Nayab after a brief altercation, strangling her throat. To throw off investigators, the suspect allegedly stripped the victim of her clothes so that police would think it was a rape-and-murder crime.

Previously, police had investigated the case and had said that the murderer had taken the slain model's phone with him and escaped from the backside of the house.

"After [scrutinising] the phone details, her close friends have been included in the investigation," police had said.

"The deceased had returned to Lahore from Dubai recently," confirmed police. A postmortem had been conducted, after which Nayab's body was handed back to her relatives.

Police had said that the suspect, after killing her, tried to paint it as a rape-and-murder crime.

GEO
 
Brother kills two sisters for honor in Mianwali

MIANWALI (Online) –Two sisters are reported to have been gunned down by their brother in the name of honor.

According to police the murder incident took place in mohalla Tariq abad at Piplan city. Rahil opened firing at his two sisters and killed them in the name of honor.

Sources said these two sisters were married and they were living with their parents after having been estranged with their in laws.

The accused fled the scene and police are conducting raids to arrest him.

Source:https://www.google.com.hk/amp/s/dunyanews.tv/amp/english/619228.php
 
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">This beautiful young girl Memoona Soomro has been murdered in Kandhkot. Honor killings,child/forced marriages,abductions & forced conversions have made our rural areas a land of despair for women.<br>Bilawal sb,PM sb,CM,Governor,Your Lordships! any response?<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/JusticeForMemoonaSoomro?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#JusticeForMemoonaSoomro</a> <a href="https://t.co/8kYDHxvjHP">pic.twitter.com/8kYDHxvjHP</a></p>— Ayaz Latif Palijo (@AyazLatifPalijo) <a href="https://twitter.com/AyazLatifPalijo/status/1448918886716518400?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 15, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
 
Two women were murdered in the name of honour by their brothers in separate incidents in Punjab.

The first incident took place in Chichawatni, a rural area of the province, where a man killed his sister in the name of honour. Police registered a case and launched probe and search operation to arrest the suspect.

Meanwhile, another woman was killed by her brother for working as a fashion model in Okara.

GEO
 
Police were on Saturday investigating the murder of two Pakistani-Spanish sisters as an "honour killing", a brutal patriarchal practice that sees women put to death for bringing "shame" on their families.

In deeply conservative Pakistan women have been shot, stabbed, stoned, set alight and strangled for the charge of tainting their family's "honour".

Such women are often slain by their own relatives, acting outside the law to uphold their family reputation according to ancient tribal mores.

Police in the eastern city of Gujrat said they are investigating the murder of Aneesa Abbas, 24, and Arooj Abbas, 21, as the latest in a grim litany of honour killings.

A spokesman told AFP both were seeking separation from their Pakistani husbands and were lured back from Spain to Gujrat where they were strangled and shot on Friday night.

"The family created a story to convince them to come to Pakistan for a couple of days," said Gujrat police spokesman Nauman Hassan.

"Preliminary investigations show this is a case of honour killing, but it is still developing and the investigation is ongoing," he added.

Police also said the women were being "pressurised" by their spouses -- who were also their cousins -- to aid their emigration to Spain.

Seven members of the sisters' family are currently wanted for murder.

The Spanish embassy in Pakistan could not be reached for comment on Saturday.

Swathes of Pakistani society still operate according to strict codes of "honour" that radically undermine women's rights.

Entitlements to education, reproductive rights and the choice of who to wed are all curtailed by the practice.

There were more than 450 honour killings last year, according to the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan.

Men are sometimes targeted but the majority of victims are women and it is suspected that many cases go unreported.

AFP
 
MenInG said:
Police were on Saturday investigating the murder of two Pakistani-Spanish sisters as an "honour killing", a brutal patriarchal practice that sees women put to death for bringing "shame" on their families.

In deeply conservative Pakistan women have been shot, stabbed, stoned, set alight and strangled for the charge of tainting their family's "honour".

Such women are often slain by their own relatives, acting outside the law to uphold their family reputation according to ancient tribal mores.

Police in the eastern city of Gujrat said they are investigating the murder of Aneesa Abbas, 24, and Arooj Abbas, 21, as the latest in a grim litany of honour killings.

A spokesman told AFP both were seeking separation from their Pakistani husbands and were lured back from Spain to Gujrat where they were strangled and shot on Friday night.

"The family created a story to convince them to come to Pakistan for a couple of days," said Gujrat police spokesman Nauman Hassan.

"Preliminary investigations show this is a case of honour killing, but it is still developing and the investigation is ongoing," he added.

Police also said the women were being "pressurised" by their spouses -- who were also their cousins -- to aid their emigration to Spain.

Seven members of the sisters' family are currently wanted for murder.

The Spanish embassy in Pakistan could not be reached for comment on Saturday.

Swathes of Pakistani society still operate according to strict codes of "honour" that radically undermine women's rights.

Entitlements to education, reproductive rights and the choice of who to wed are all curtailed by the practice.

There were more than 450 honour killings last year, according to the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan.

Men are sometimes targeted but the majority of victims are women and it is suspected that many cases go unreported.

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This is the real face of our culture where women are third class citizens and are treated like cattle! Pakistan is a disgusting place to be a woman.
 
Punjab police arrest six men, including 'mastermind' over alleged murders of Spanish sisters

The Gujrat police on Sunday said that it has arrested six men allegedly involved in the murders of two Spanish sisters who were shot dead in a village in Gujrat district for reportedly failing to take their husbands to Spain.

"The police have arrested the six people, including the mastermind, in the tragic incident," the Punjab police tweeted.

"According to preliminary investigation, the sisters were against their forced marriages and were allegedly killed by their brother and uncle," it said, adding that the district police officer of Gujrat had been assigned the task of arresting the perpetrators after the inspector-general of Punjab took notice of the incident.

On Friday, Arooj Abbas and Aneesa Abbas, aged between 21 and 23 were found killed in their house. They were severely tortured before being shot dead.

The girls were married to their cousins in Pakistan more than a year ago but they were unable to get their respective husbands visas to settle with them in Spain.

Their in-laws suspected that they had intentionally delayed the procedure for their husbands’ visas, the police said. According to the police, the sisters' bodies were shifted to the hospital for autopsy, whereas a team of forensic experts collected forensic evidence from the crime scene.

On Saturday, the police registered a case against seven nominated suspects, namely Raja Haneef alias Goga, the paternal uncle of the women, who was also the father-in-law of Aneesa, her mother-in-law Farzana Haneef, her husband Atiq, Arooj’s husband Hassan, her father-in-law Aurangzaib, the brother of the deceased Shehryar, Qasid Haneef and two unidentified suspects, under various sections.

The fire information report (FIR) was lodged on the report of ASI Nadeem of Gulliana police after the mother of the deceased sisters declined to become the complainant in murder case of her daughters.

Police sources told Dawn that District Police Officer Ataur Rehman had directed the police to become a complainant instead of lodging the case on report of a family member of the girls to avoid pardon or reconciliation.

Meanwhile, an official of Gujrat police, privy to the investigation, said that the initial investigation had revealed that the deceased women were demanding divorce from their cousins as they reportedly wanted to marry with two Pakistanis belonging to Mandi Bahauddin district who were settled in Spain. However, the family did not allow them to do so and brought them to Pakistan where their nikah was registered about a year ago.

A spokesman for Gujrat Police said the autopsy and forensic reports would ascertain whether the women were killed through asphyxiation or by the bullets as torture makes were found around their necks.

He added that at least four raiding teams had been constituted that were conducting raids on various locations to arrest the suspects.

On the other hand, the mother of deceased women, who is also in Pakistan, has been quoted as telling the investigators that she tried her best to save her daughters and begged for their lives when they were being tortured by the suspects.

The DPO of Gujrat is expected to address a news conference in this regard today.

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KARACHI: The Gujrat police claimed to have apprehended all of the suspects, including a brother and uncle of the victims, involved in the murder of two Pakistani-Spanish sisters killed for honour, The News reported Monday.

The police claimed to have caught all of the suspects within 48 hours, including the mastermind, who confessed to having been involved in the murder of two Spanish Pakistani sisters, Aneesa Abbas and Arooj Abbas.

The primary suspect, Shehryar Abbas and Hanif, the brother and uncle of the murdered women, were detained, along with five others: Qasid, Atiq, Hasan, Asfandyar, and one unnamed.

Gujrat District Police Officer Ataur Rehman confirmed the arrest of the suspects for the assassination of the two sisters, saying the women were killed two days ago.

According to the authorities, the two women arrived in Pakistan on May 19 and were slain on May 20. The women had been married to their cousins for a year and wanted to divorce their spouses and marry someone else in Spain, according to the police.

According to the authorities, the women were pressured by their husbands to assist them immigrate to Spain, and as a result, they were tortured and killed.

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Enraged over alleged abduction of a woman and her sister belonging to the Chauhan community, a group of armed men attacked and torched at least 10 houses in Sham Kaladi village near Rohri on Sunday. A four-year-old girl trapped in flames died in the incident.

According to local reporters, the woman intended to contract a freewill marriage with a youth belonging to the Panhwar community. As she left her house along with her sister, the affected family complained to the community elders and claimed that the two sisters had been abducted by some Panhwar men. Amid unrest over the incident, a group of enraged men attacked the houses of the Panhwar community and ransacked them while resorting to aerial firing. More than 10 of the houses were torched.

Members of the Panhwar community alleged that the attackers belonged to the Chauhan community. They approached officials at the Dubar police station with complaint that certain members of the Chauhan community went on the rampage targeting their houses. They said the attackers resorted to heavy firing into the air to harass people in Panhwars’ neighbourhood before ransacking and torching many houses.

The police rushed to the village but found that the attackers had already left the area.

Meanwhile, the body of a four-year-old girl was retrieved from a burnt out house. Her name could not be ascertained till late in the evening.

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Australian woman allegedly hacked to death by father-in-law in Pakistan

An Australian woman has allegedly been hacked to death with an axe by her father-in-law in northern Pakistan following an argument about bringing her children back home to Australia.

Sajida Tasneem was allegedly gagged and killed in front of her father at a home she shared with her in-laws near the city of Sargodha, 190 kilometres west of Lahore, on June 11.

According to a news report by BBC Urdu, Tasneem had been pressured by her husband, Ayub Ahmad, to leave their home in Perth and relocate to Pakistan with their three young children.

She had wanted to return to Australia to give the children a better education but her parents-in-law had confiscated the family’s passports and opposed the move.

In a Pakistani police report verified by The Age, Tasneem’s father, Sher Muhammad Khan, claimed his daughter had been arguing with her father-in-law, Mukhtar Ahmad, about her plans to return to Australia when he attacked her.

Tasneem’s husband was reportedly working in Bahrain at the time.

Khan told the police he went to the home to meet Tasneem about 1.45pm on June 11 when he heard Ahmad hurling abuse at his daughter.

He said he rushed into the bathroom, where he found Ahmad had stuffed a cloth in Tasneem’s mouth to muffle her screams and was swinging an axe at her head.

“She was in the bathroom, with some cloth in her mouth, and he [Ahmad] was hitting her in the head with an axe,” an English translation of the original statement in Urdu read.

Khan told police Ahmad threatened his family before fleeing the scene with the axe, leaving Tasneem bleeding.

“She died at the scene,” he said.

A Department of Foreign Affairs spokesperson expressed their condolences and said consular assistance was being provided to the family but nothing further could be added at this stage for privacy reasons.

Punjab police confirmed a person had been arrested and charged with murder.

Tributes for the slain mother-of-three have begun to flow on social media under the hashtag #JusticeforSajidaTasneem.

Some expressed their grief by sharing verses from the Koran, while others mourned the death of “a positive and beautiful soul” who was known for helping those around her.

Friend Sarah Chaudhry said Tasneem was an intelligent and generous woman who always looked out for others and “spoke up when it mattered”.

Chaudhry, who met Tasneem through a community Facebook group shortly after relocating to Perth in 2015, told The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald she was instantly drawn to her kind nature.

“She was a very genuine and non-judgmental person,” she said. “Whatever questions I had, she would always find the time to answer me wholeheartedly.”

Yasmin Khan, the director of the Bangle Foundation, an unfunded and voluntary group in Brisbane that helps women from South Asian communities to escape domestic violence and abuse, said she had been in touch with Tasneem’s father in the aftermath of the attack. She said Khan and his wife were grieving their daughter and caring for her three children.

Yasmin Khan said Australian women and permanent residents regularly called the foundation saying their husband was forcing them to leave Australia against their will.

Yasmin Khan said the DFAT often required consent from both parents to issue new passports for children, which left women whose husbands refused to sign the forms stuck overseas.

“I say to women: ‘Do not get on a plane. Do not get on a plane, whatever it is,’ ” she said.

“Nobody is forcing you; they can’t force you to go. They can yell and scream, but you can’t be dragged onto the plane.

“I also tell them there are checkpoints along the way from the ticket window through to customs and immigration and border force – if you just stand there and yell, you will create a ruckus real quick and then just tell your story.”

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Police in Spain said on Friday that they have arrested a Pakistani couple suspected of having killed their own daughter in Pakistan because she got married without their approval.

Pakistani authorities issued an international arrest warrant for the couple after the killing committed in April 2020, Spain's National Police said in a statement.

Investigators believe the couple "kidnapped and then murdered in Pakistan their own daughter because she married a person they did not like," the statement added.

The woman's husband reported what happened to Pakistani authorities, who issued a warrant for the couple, who had fled to Spain, a police spokeswoman said.

Spanish police arrested the man, 67, and woman, 51, on Saturday near their home in Logrono, the capital of the northern wine-producing region of La Rioja, acting on a tip from Pakistani authorities that they were now living there.

The couple then appeared before Spain's National court which ordered that they be held in prison until they are deported to Pakistan.

They reportedly ran a shop offering phone and internet services in the centre of Logrono. About 100,000 Pakistanis live in Spain, according to national statistics institute INE.

Swathes of Pakistani society still operate according to strict codes of "honour" that radically undermine women's rights.

Entitlements to education, reproductive rights and the choice of who to wed are all curtailed by the practice.

There were more than 450 honour killings last year, according to the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan.

Men are sometimes targeted but the majority of victims are women and it is suspected that many cases go unreported.

In the past, women have been shot, stabbed, stoned, set alight and strangled for the charge of tainting their family's "honour".

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"Many Killed Each Year...": Chief Justice Takes On Dishonour Killings

Hundreds of young people die in India due to dishonour killings merely because they love someone or marry outside their caste or against their family's wishes, Chief Justice of India (CJI) DY Chandrachud said on Saturday, in a speech on "Law and Morality", according to legal news website Bar and Bench. Referring to several cases linked to morality, like the 'breast tax', Section 377 that criminalised homosexuality, ban on bar dances in Mumbai, and striking down adultery, he said the dominant groups decide the code of conduct and morality, overpowering the weaker groups.

"Members of weaker and marginalised have little choice but to submit to the dominant culture for their own survival. Vulnerable sections of society are unable to generate a counter culture because of humiliation and separation at the hands of the oppressor groups. The counter culture, if any, that the vulnerable groups develop, is overpowered by the government groups to further alienate them," the CJI said, adding that the vulnerable groups are placed at the bottom of the social structure, and that their consent, even if attained, is a myth.

"Is it necessary that what is moral for me has to be moral for you?" he asked.

He cited an article which spoke about how a 15-year-old girl was killed by her parents in Uttar Pradesh in 1991.

"The article stated that villagers accepted the crime. Their actions were acceptable and justified (for them) because they complied with the code of conduct of that society in which they lived. However, is this the code of conduct that would have been put forward by rational people? If this is not a code of conduct that would have been put forward by rational people? Many people are killed each year for falling in love, or marrying outside their caste or against their family's wishes," he said.

The CJI was delivering the Ashok Desai Memorial Lecture, organised by the Bombay Bar Association in Mumbai. Mr Desai was a former Attorney General of India, and

During his speech, the CJI also highlighted the Supreme Court judgment that decriminalised homosexuality in India.

"We rectified the injustice. Section 377 of Indian Penal Code (IPC) was based on morality of a gone era. Constitutional morality focuses on rights of individuals and protects it from popular morality notions of the society," he said.

On a Constitution bench judgment which unanimously struck down Section 497 of the IPC, which penalised adultery, he said, "The values of a progressive constitution serve as a guiding force for us. They convey that our personal and professional lives aren't divorced from the Constitution."

The Indian Constitution was designed not for people as they were, but how they ought to be, he said, adding that, "It is the flag bearer of our fundamental rights. It guides us in our daily life."

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Honour killing: Woman burnt alive in Pakistan's Punjab province

In a gruesome incident, a 20-year-old woman was burnt alive in the name of 'honour' in Pakistan's Punjab province, police said on Sunday.

The incident took place in Garh Maharaja, Jhang district, some 200 kms from Lahore, on Friday. Investigation officer Muhammad Azam told PTI on Sunday that Rajab Ali, along with his sons Jabbar and Aamir and some other family members severely tortured his young daughter before setting her ablaze at their house on May 26.

The police officer said that the woman wanted to marry a man of her choice. "A day before, she had left the home and reportedly spent some time with him before returning," he said.

Upon her return, her father, two brother and some family women tied her with a rope and severely tortured the woman before setting her on fire, Azam said.

The victim was shifted to hospital where she succumbed to her burns. "Before her death, she told police about those who set her on fire," he said.

Police have arrested the father, two brothers and a sister of the victim. A murder case has been registered against the suspects.

The officer said the arrested suspects offered no remorse for their act saying the girl had disgraced the family's honour and deserved this fate.

Hundreds of women are killed every year in different parts of Pakistan in the name of honour.

The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has reported an average of 650 honour killings annually over the past decade. But since most go unreported, the real number is likely to be much higher.
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SalimBhai said:
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Pakistan accounts for the most number of honor killings globally. This practice is not limited to Pakistan only.

Pakistani-Italians and Pakistani-Spanish have made global headlines recently for killing their daughters for dishonouring their family.

I think you would be aware of a case where Pakistani-Spanish family killed, chopped and buried their daughter in a forest after she refused to marry a cousin.

I watched a report on DW about honour killings amongst the Pakistani community in Italy. There was a Pakistani social worker in the documentary and he detailed how average Italians keep questioning Pakistani culture and its awful treatment of women. He said he had no answers for them and that he was very embarrassed. He further said that Italians simply cannot understand why would a Pakistani family kill their own daughter.
 
saeedhk said:
Pakistan accounts for the most number of honor killings globally. This practice is not limited to Pakistan only.

Pakistani-Italians and Pakistani-Spanish have made global headlines recently for killing their daughters for dishonouring their family.

I think you would be aware of a case where Pakistani-Spanish family killed, chopped and buried their daughter in a forest after she refused to marry a cousin.

I watched a report on DW about honour killings amongst the Pakistani community in Italy. There was a Pakistani social worker in the documentary and he detailed how average Italians keep questioning Pakistani culture and its awful treatment of women. He said he had no answers for them and that he was very embarrassed. He further said that Italians simply cannot understand why would a Pakistani family kill their own daughter.
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The same is true in Spain also. We have a terrible reputation due to a few incidents .
 
The mother of a woman murdered by her husband who pushed her off a hill says he was "evil, jealous and insecure".

Fawziyah Javed died after she was pushed from Arthur's Seat in Edinburgh by Kashif Anwar in 2021.

In her first TV interview, Fawziyah's mother Yasmin Javed told BBC Newsnight she believes Anwar did not like his wife being independent.

In a recording Fawziyah secretly made, her husband told her to stop behaving like a British woman.

Fawziyah's mother said Anwar resented the 31-year-old solicitor being an independent, well-educated young woman.

"He didn't like the fact that Fawzi had her own voice, her own opinions. He didn't like that," she said.

Fawziyah Javed, from Leeds, married Anwar, an optical assistant, in an Islamic ceremony on 25 December 2020.

Three months after their wedding Anwar knocked Fawziyah unconscious in a cemetery, the court case into her death was told.

At around the same time, he put a pillow over her face and punched her in the head.

The court also heard Anwar withdrew £12,000 from her bank account while she was sleeping.

Fawziyah's mother Yasmin said she had encouraged her daughter to leave Anwar but she said Fawziyah was biding her time and said she knew what she was doing.

"She had contacted divorce lawyers to get the ball rolling to get a divorce because he always said, 'I'm never going to divorce you'.

"And she'd also made voice recordings of him where he's being threatening and abusive towards her. So obviously that was all evidence of how he was treating her."

In one voice recording Fawziyah is heard saying: "You've ruined my life."

Anwar replies: "I'll tell you one thing. You end this and I will ruin yours."

In another recording Anwar is heard telling his wife: "Who do you think you are? You're not a man … so come back tomorrow like you've been told."

His wife asks: "What's your problem?"

Anwar replies: "My problem? Don't challenge me, do not be that British woman.

"Because I'm telling you, it will not work. I promise it will not work. It won't work with me."

Fawziyah went to the police twice so that there was a record of Anwar's behaviour, although she didn't want them to intervene at that point.

The second police report was made just days before Anwar killed her, on a weekend away to Edinburgh in September 2021.

The couple were captured on CCTV heading to the Edinburgh landmark Arthur's seat.

After falling 50ft off a cliff edge, Fawziyah was able to tell passers-by what had happened, before she died.

In April this year, Anwar was jailed for a minimum of 20 years for murdering his wife, who was 17 weeks pregnant, and causing the death of her unborn child.

Fawziyah's mother said she cannot forget her daughter's last words: "'Am I going to die? Is my baby going to die?'"

"The words go round around my head every single day," Ms Javed said.

"Alongside the grief and pain, I can't get them words out of my mind."

Ms Javed told Newsnight she did not feel like the family got justice and Anwar is still exerting his control even though he's in prison.

"I still don't have all of Fawziyah's possessions back," she said. "The possessions that I have got back. I've had to fight tooth and nail to get them.

"And his parents are honouring that control, by not giving all her possessions back to us."

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The court previously heard a recording of Anwar telling his wife: "Anything that's here that you're probably going to say it belongs to you. You're not taking anything from here.

"It's all going to stay here, that's my possessions because it's my house."

The parents of Kashif Anwar told BBC Newsnight that they had returned all of Fawziyah's possessions to the police and to her family.

Ms Javed believes Anwar's motives for murdering her daughter stemmed from honour-based control, jealousy, and insecurity.

Fawziyah Javed died after falling on Arthur's Seat. Arrows show where she fell from and where she landed
Honour-based abuse is a crime or incident committed to protect or defend the 'honour' of a family or community.

"He used to say to Fawziyah, we don't have divorces in our family, we don't divorce, we stay in marriages no matter what," she told BBC Newsnight.

Police Scotland, who carried out the investigation into Fawziyah's murder, said they did not identify any honour-based abuse, adding that domestic abuse and coercive control were the main factors in the case.

But charity Karma Nirvana, who are supporting Yasmin - including prior to Fawziyah's death - said they recognised honour abuse as part of Fawziayah's experience.

Baroness Shaista Gohir, chair of Muslim Women Network UK (MWNUK), said there can be additional barriers faced by some South Asian women when leaving abusive relationships.

Pointing to how religious divorces can be used as tools of control, she highlighted the need for increased awareness and support for victims in these communities.

Baroness Gohir said as a member and volunteer at MWNUK, Fawziyah was an intelligent and educated woman who knew her rights, "yet she still ended up dead".

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According to human rights activists, around 1,000 women are killed in the name of honour every year in Pakistan. The victims are widely perceived to have brought shame and dishonour to their families either by marrying against their will or having an affair.​


A woman was stoned to death in Pakistan's Punjab province for allegedly committing adultery, police said on Sunday.

The incident took place in Rajanpur district of Punjab, some 500 km from Lahore, on Friday.

According to police, the husband of the woman, who is in her 20s, accused her of adultery. On Friday, the man along with his two brothers tied the woman against a tree and stoned her to death. Before stoning her, they also brutally tortured her.

The brothers fled after committing the crime and are believed to be hiding at the border region between Punjab and Balochistan, police said.

The woman belonged to the Alkani tribe of Rajanpur.

A number of women are killed in Pakistanevery year in the name of honour.

According to human rights activists, around 1,000 women are killed in the name of honour every year in Pakistan. The victims are widely perceived to have broughtshame and dishonour to their families either by marrying against their will or having an affair. Most often, family members are behind such killings.

A few days ago, a young lady doctor was shot dead in the name of honour in Punjab's Mianwali district.

According to police, the 25-year-old doctor wanted to marry her colleague but her father disapproved of it.

"Over a week ago, the doctor's father came to her clinic in Mianwali city and argued with her over the matter. During the argument, he pulled out a gun and opened fire on her, leaving her critically injured. She was rushed to a nearby hospital where she succumbed to her wounds," police said.

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Woman stoned to death in Pakistan's Punjab province for alleged adultery

According to human rights activists, around 1,000 women are killed in the name of honour every year in Pakistan. The victims are widely perceived to have brought shame and dishonour to their families either by marrying against their will or having an affair.
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Pakistani woman stoned to death over adultery

A woman was stoned to death in Pakistan's Punjab province for allegedly committing adultery, police said as quoted by media sources.
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Father of girl killed for ‘honour’ arrested in Kohistan

Police in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) on Tuesday arrested the father of the girl who was allegedly killed in the name of “honour” in Kohistan, officials said.

The suspect Arsala was presented before a local court which granted a seven-day physical remand. Three suspected accomplices, believed to have aided and advised the accused, have also been taken into custody.

On Sunday, a young girl was murdered and another rescued by the police in a case involving a viral video in which both the girls could be seen dancing with local boys.

The girl was killed in the Barsharyal village of Kohistan's Palas — 150km northwest of Mansehra — allegedly by her own family members on orders issued by a local jirga.

According to details, in the case registered under sections 114, 15AA, 302/311/109/34 PPC at Palas police station on November 28, 2023, the arrested suspect, Arsala, son of Mohsin, belonging to the Barsharyal tribe, was presented before the senior sessions judge/ Palas Assistant Commissioner.


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Court hands over Arsala to police on seven-day physical remand; three accomplices also apprehended
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Pakistani girl killed after photos with boy’s arm around her go viral

Police in Pakistan’s northwestern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa have arrested a man who allegedly shot his teenage daughter dead last week after photos showing a boy’s arm around her were seen online.

Mukhtar Ahmed Tanoli, district police officer of Kohistan, told Al Jazeera the police had arrested the girl’s father, Arsala, “on charges of killing his own daughter”.

They also arrested the father’s brother and two cousins – who are accused of having planned the murder with Arsala.

Police were informed of the incident on November 24, and retrieved the body of the girl from her home in the Kolai-Palas district of Kohistan, a remote region 350km (217 miles) by road from the capital Islamabad.

According to the police report, photos circulated on Facebook earlier last week showed the girl with a boy, both from Kohistan, with their arms around each other.

Kohistan is an insular, extremely conservative region where local traditions are often enforced through tribal councils known as a “jirgas” which have been known to issue death sentences against women for “violations” of the extreme interpretation of tradition.

In 2012, a video showed five women clapping as two men danced during a wedding ceremony. A local tribal council was called and ordered the killing of those involved in the video.

At least three women in the video were killed.

Six men were convicted and sentenced for life but in 2019, five of them were acquitted on appeal.

Tanoli said last week’s murder was different. “We cannot claim this was due to a jirga which may have ordered the killing. That is not what happened here,” he said.

He added that the police believe the viral photos were digitally altered, using images of another couple and that the police had sought help from cybercrime officials at Pakistan’s Federal Investigation Agency to track down the people behind the image alteration.

Nausher Khan, the father of the 17-year-old boy who had his picture with the murdered girl shared online, says he is not aware of any tribal council ordering the murder, but he fears for his son and family.

“The police have now arrested the father of the girl and her uncle and cousins, but I am afraid the family of the girl will want to seek revenge by killing my boy,” Khan told Al Jazeera. “I have sent him away so he can hide, but I am now worried for my wife and five other children.”

Pakistani rights organisations have raised the alarm against the rampant femicide in the country, with data showing more than 5,000 women killed since 2012.

While the government has acted to strengthen the law against such murders, increasing the punishment to life imprisonment in 2016, the murders have continued.

In its 2022 report, The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan said that there were 384 such murders reported, more than 100 of them from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.




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Man held for killing niece on jirga decree in Kohistan

MANSEHRA: Police on Monday arrested a man, who allegedly killed his niece on the order of a jirga after her video surfaced on social media last week, in Kolai-Palas region of Kohistan.

“This is a great achievement as the main culprit in the murder of a young girl has been arrested and presented before a local court,” Mukhtar Khan Tanoli, the district police officer of Kolai-Palas, told Dawn.

He said that a police team arrested Mohammad Nawaz in the mountainous Barsharyal village and produced him before a local magistrate for getting his custody.

“The magistrate handed the uncle of slain girl to police on four-day remand as the father of the girl has already been arrested and is in custody of police for six days,” said Mr Tanoli.

He said that police and cybercrime wing of FIA were pursuing the case to arrest those, who uploaded photos-in-sequel in that video surfaced on Aman Khan alias Mohammad Didar’s fake Facebook account.

“We have been expecting more arrests shortly in this gruesome murder as the video is made of photos of two girls and same number of boys to put it on social media in pairs,” said Mr Tanoli.

He said one of the two girls, seen in pairs with boys, was rescued by police and presented before magistrate, who sent her with her family after she ruled out a threat to her life.

The FIR of the incident was lodged by Palas police station SHO Noor Mohammad Khan under sections 302/311 and 109 of PPC against the father and uncle of the slain girl.

Meanwhile, National Commission on the Status of Women, headed by Nilofar Bukhtar, has taken serious notice of the killing of the girl by jirga’s decree.

In an official communiqué addressed and dispatched to Inspector General of Police Akhtar Hayat Gandapur, the commission says that killing of a girl by the decree of a jirga merely after her video with a boy surfaced on social video is a horrific and painful incident.

“This commission, which is established under NCSW Act, 2012, is mandated to work for the protection and rights of women in the country.

The commission is confident that perpetrators and abated in any way in this case might be brought to justice through fair and exhaustive investigation,“ it says.
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Man held for killing niece on jirga decree in Kohistan

DPO says more arrests are expected soon in the case.
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Another man held over Kolai-Palas girl’s killing

MANSEHRA: A magistrate remanded a man in police custody in Kolai-Palas district on Friday for allegedly uploading edited pictures on social media that led to the killing of a girl on the orders of a jirga.

Police arrested suspect Mohammad Yaseen in Barsharyal village here and produced him before the local court to seek his physical remand for investigation.

“The magistrate handed the suspect over to police for six days on remand,” district police officer Mukhtar Khan Tanoli told Dawn.

He said the investigation would reveal the motive of culprits for editing pictures of two girls and two boys and uploading them on Facebook.

The DPO said more arrests were expected shortly over the matter.

A girl was killed allegedly by her father on the orders of a jirga in Barsharyal area after social media pictures showed her and her friend in the company of two na mehram (stranger) boys of their village, an act considered taboo in the area.

However, the other girl was rescued by the police.

Mr Tanoli said the pictures were cropped and combined in a video with the addition of a local folk song in the background to show girls and boys in a “romantic relationship.”

He said the police had taken Aiman Dar, whose name was used for the Facebook account ID, into protective custody.

The DPO said joint efforts of the police and FIA’s Cyber Crime Wing led to the arrest of Mohammad Yasin and recovery of a mobile SIM card used by him to make a Facebook account to upload those edited photos.

He said the slain girl’s father and uncle were also in police’s custody.

A high-level committee formed by the caretaker chief minister is still probing the matter, according to FIA Cyber Crime Wing deputy director Mohammad Asif.

He said all those involved in the matter and their intent would be “exposed” shortly.

The committee also has Hazara Division’s commissioner and deputy inspector general of police along with Kolai-Palas DPO as members.
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www.dawn.com

Another man held over Kolai-Palas girl’s killing

Magistrate hands over suspect to police for 6-day remand.
www.dawn.com
 
How many more lives will be taken before Pakistani people will wake up and understand that these killings have no honor in them? This jirga system needs to be shut down until there is a check and balance on these according to the law.
 
Man kills sister-in-law, tenant in Karachi 'in name of honour'

A man shot and killed his sister-in-law and her tenant, apparently in the name of honour near Rana Ground, Baldia Jungle School, Karachi.

According to SHO Ittehad Town, Rao Shabbir, the victims were identified as 32-year-old Sonia, wife of Tanveer, and 38-year-old Muhammad Irshad, son of Lal Dad Shah.

Initial investigations suggest that the shooting was motivated by honour, with Sonia's brother-in-law, Mustafa, being the alleged shooter.

Sonia's husband is currently abroad for work, and Mustafa had suspected that the tenant, Irshad, was involved in an illicit relationship with her.

Mustafa used a 30-bore pistol to carry out the killings and fled the scene immediately afterward. He hails from the Hazara district, and the police are actively conducting raids in an effort to apprehend him.

Human Rights activists estimate that around 1,000 women are murdered annually in Pakistan in in the name of 'honour'. At least 217 people including 152 women were murdered in honour-related crimes in 2022, according to unofficial statistics from southern parts of Sindh province.

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Man kills daughter, young man over 'honour' in Karachi​

A man shot dead his daughter and her friend in Karachi on Tuesday in the name of 'honour', after he allegedly found them together at his residence in Malir's Rafah-e-Aam Society.

Police stated that the suspect, identified as Azhar, claimed that he found his daughter and her friend alone on the residence's rooftop which enraged him. He then shot both from a close range, which killed the two on the spot.

The victims were identified as 18-year-old Fatima and 20-year-old Ali.

Following the murders, the suspect surrendered himself before the local police and confessed to the killings in the name of 'honour', added the police.

In his initial statement to the police, Azhar said that he had stopped the young man from visiting his residence many times, however, he paid no heed to his warnings.

The police added that the accused was a garment trader and had been residing in the area for around 20 years.

Much of Pakistani society operates under a strict code of "honour", with women beholden to their male relatives over choices around education, employment and who they can marry.

Hundreds of women are killed by men in Pakistan every year for allegedly breaching this code.

According to the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, 316 "honour" crimes against women were recorded in the country in 2022.

But many cases go unreported, as families tend to protect the murderers — often male relatives.

Source: GEO
 
It seems impossible that these honour killings are ever going to stop happening in Pakistan.
 
Devadwal said:
Italy upholds sentence of Pakistani parents who killed their teen daughter for refusing marriage

The parents were found guilty of killing their 18-year-old daughter for refusing to marry her older cousin.

m.jpost.com

Italy upholds sentence of Pakistani parents who killed their teen daughter for refusing marriage

The parents were found guilty of killing their 18-year-old daughter for refusing to marry her older cousin.
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For these mentally ill people it is more honorable to kill than allow someone to marry their choice of spouse. Evil people.
 
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