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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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Three acid attacks on twelve women in the past ten days adds another dimension to insecurity in Balochistan, because while stories of honour killings have often emerged from the province in the past, acid attacks have not been used very ...