Another murder over cultural issue.

[jacee]

It boggles the mind. That people can, and do, chose to do this to their child ....

And they go to jail for it. Good.

[Guest American Woman]

Honor killings/violence is a real problem in Pakistan, and from what I've read, world pressure is responsible for a lot of the changes that have been made. Dismissing the problem or minimizing it helps no one. If the focus stays on these killings, then and only then, does it appear as if it will end.

Pakistan is one of the states where every year a large number of Karo Kari or honor killing cases are reported. Sadly, many such cases are not reported.

The Government of Pakistan passed a bill in December 2004 making honor killing punishable under the same penal provisions as murder. But this bill did not alter the provisions whereby the accused could negotiate a pardon with the victim's family under so-called Islamic provisions.

According to the women rights advocates the concept of women as an object or commodity is deeply rooted in the tribal culture as well as in the social, economic and political fabric of Pakistan that the government mostly ignores the regular occurrences of women being maimed and killed by their families.

http://www.humanrigh...RC-ETC-010-2012

honor killing continue to be defended and considered acceptable even by high-level Pakistani officials. In 2008, a senator from Balochistan publicly defended honor killings, by claiming that they represent a “tribal

custom

.” He was appointed as

member

of the Cabinet by President Zardari. So was legislator Hazar Khan Bijirani, who had been accused in 2006 of leading a tribal council which had sentenced to hanging five girls as

compensation

in a dispute.

http://www.digitaljo...0#ixzz2Bf9q1Ni9

[jacee]

And here they go to jail for it. Good.

peer-khair-convicted-of-second-degree-murder-in-killing-of-wife-randjida

With Peer Khairi’s conviction for second-degree murder,there is justice at last for his invisible victim.

…

Ultimately,jurors saw through his self-serving excuses. He will serve an automatic life sentence for being nothing than a bitter old man bent on preserving his twisted notions of control and honour.

[Mighty AC]

Honor killings/violence is a real problem in Pakistan, and from what I've read, world pressure is responsible for a lot of the changes that have been made. Dismissing the problem or minimizing it helps no one. If the focus stays on these killings, then and only then, does it appear as if it will end.

Exactly. It is very important that we fight ALL violent and hateful practices and the religious justifications for them.