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Pakistan's Honor Murders and Rapes
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'Honor killings' rise in Pakistan
Thursday, December 12, 2002 Posted: 6:55 AM EST (1155 GMT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- 'Honor killings' have risen in Pakistan, with 461 women murdered by family members in 2002 for immoral behavior ranging from adultery, being raped or even cooking poorly, the country's main human rights body says.
Most killings are carried out by men to protect their family's honor for so called immoral behavior such as sex outside marriage, talking to or dating men, being a victim of rape and even bad cooking skills, the commission said.
The honor crimes are committed under the belief their actions would defend a family's reputation.
Relying mainly on data collected from two provinces, the rights commission said over 300 honor killings took place in Sindh.
In Punjab province, 161 women or girls were killed by relatives. Only 27 killers were arrested in that province.
In June this year, the tribal council-ordered gang rape of a woman in Punjab sparked national and international outrage.
The young woman, Mukhtiar Bibi, was raped as punishment for her brother having sex with a woman from another clan. Six men were convicted of attacking her and sentenced to death.
New laws
But in most honor killings, those guilty are not punished.
"Unfortunately, police in Pakistan either don't arrest such killers or they are not treated as murderers," Hayat told The Associated Press.
Among other findings from the commission:
• In Punjab, 67 of the slain women were killed by their brothers, 49 by their husbands and the rest executed by other family members, including seven cases where sons killed their mothers.
• In November in the southern city of Faisalabad, a woman was hacked to death with an ax by close relatives on suspicion she was having "immoral relations" with a man. The man was also killed.
• During the same month, a widow was killed by her brother on suspicion she was living with a man outside marriage.
In both cases, the perpetrators gave themselves up to police and are awaiting trial.
Thursday, December 12, 2002 Posted: 6:55 AM EST (1155 GMT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- 'Honor killings' have risen in Pakistan, with 461 women murdered by family members in 2002 for immoral behavior ranging from adultery, being raped or even cooking poorly, the country's main human rights body says.
Most killings are carried out by men to protect their family's honor for so called immoral behavior such as sex outside marriage, talking to or dating men, being a victim of rape and even bad cooking skills, the commission said.
The honor crimes are committed under the belief their actions would defend a family's reputation.
Relying mainly on data collected from two provinces, the rights commission said over 300 honor killings took place in Sindh.
In Punjab province, 161 women or girls were killed by relatives. Only 27 killers were arrested in that province.
In June this year, the tribal council-ordered gang rape of a woman in Punjab sparked national and international outrage.
The young woman, Mukhtiar Bibi, was raped as punishment for her brother having sex with a woman from another clan. Six men were convicted of attacking her and sentenced to death.
New laws
But in most honor killings, those guilty are not punished.
"Unfortunately, police in Pakistan either don't arrest such killers or they are not treated as murderers," Hayat told The Associated Press.
Among other findings from the commission:
• In Punjab, 67 of the slain women were killed by their brothers, 49 by their husbands and the rest executed by other family members, including seven cases where sons killed their mothers.
• In November in the southern city of Faisalabad, a woman was hacked to death with an ax by close relatives on suspicion she was having "immoral relations" with a man. The man was also killed.
• During the same month, a widow was killed by her brother on suspicion she was living with a man outside marriage.
In both cases, the perpetrators gave themselves up to police and are awaiting trial.
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Better we take our own dovernment to task for blindly aligning our country with a government that is neither democratic nor humanitarian. Should be increasingly easy to see the double standards and hypocrisy of the Bush admin when they are not applying the same standard in places like Pakistan that they have used to program the public into support for an attack on Iraq.
Fair enough, but to avoid double standards perhaps we should adjust that to
"This expression of religion needs to be wiped out in this day and age."
I'm sure that between us on these boards we can come up with plenty of 'atrocities' on the part of each and every religion on this planet to warrant the total destruction of all organized religions on the basis that you seem to have for Islam.
In some of the tribal areas (as with everywhere) there will be things done that have been done long befor the people came to the religion they may currently practise.
Not all culture is religion.........
They have nukes, there is no chance of us attacking them.......