Kohat: Police arrested a man who killed his granddaughter in the name of honour here in Mandoni area of Kohat district in K-P on Thursday. He was trying to run away after committing the crime but was arrested by police ...
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KARACHI: A grossly under-reported crime, honour killing could only stop if we develop a culture where dissent is accepted and oppression is publicly opposed. What’s perpetuating this crime across Pakistan, however, is silence. People do not show any resistance when ...
Read More »Women-on-wheels programme determined to make difference
By Akram Shaheedi Women-on Wheels programme in Punjab is an assertion that women in Punjab has dared to take their destiny into their own hands, breaking free of the barriers of discrimination mainly responsible for holding them back in the ...
Read More »Pakistani couple jailed in Germany for ‘honour killing’
BERLIN – A German court Tuesday sentenced a Pakistan-born couple to life in jail for the “honour killing” of their 19-year-old daughter, who had had sex before marriage. The 52-year-old father was found guilty of strangling the teenager to death, ...
Read More »There are more honour killings than we know
LAHORE: “As many as 500 women and girls are killed for ‘honour’ in Pakistan each year, making Pakistan one of the most dangerous countries for women,” said Dr Muazzam Nasrullah, a public health specialist teaching at Emory and West Virginia ...
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