Pakistan: 933 killed ‘for honour’ in two years

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Honor killings and honor violence are escalating here and abroad. The problem is that we can’t talk about the problem. Anyone who does is denounced as an “Islamophobe,” since over 91% of honor killings worldwide are Islamic.

According to the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, “In the name of preserving family ‘honor,’ women and girls are shot, stoned, burned, buried alive, strangled, smothered and knifed to death with horrifying regularity.” Between 5,000 and 20,000 so-called honor killings are committed each year, based on long-held beliefs that any female who commits — or is suspected of committing — an “immoral” act should be killed to “restore honor” to her family.

But of course that number is far higher.

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Because so many honor killings are never reported — and because international organizations are discouraged from keeping statistics on such politically sensitive practices — no one knows how many honor killings occur each year.

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“Ministry figures: 933 killed ‘for honour’ in two years,” by Azam Khan, Express Tribune, February 9, 2015 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

ISLAMABAD:

Some 933 people were killed across the country in the name of honour during the past two years while 83 non-Muslims were also reported to be killed during the period. The majority of these cases were reported in Sindh.

These statistics were provided to the National Assembly on Friday by Federal Ministry of Law, in response to a query raised by an MNA, Saman Sultan Jaffri.

According to the report, Sindh proved to be the worst in terms of safety of minorities as 46 cases of non-Muslims’ killings were reported in the province, ruled by Pakistan Peoples Party.

As per the law ministry’s Human Rights Regional Offices – functioning at all four provincial headquarters – 17 non-Muslims were killed in Punjab, 9 in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) and 11 in Balochistan, during this period.

The report said a total of 456 and 477 cases of honour killing were reported in Pakistan in 2013 and 2014, respectively. Once again, the greatest number of such cases (602) was reported from Sindh.

As per the federal law ministry’s data for 2013, 66 cases of honour killing were reported in Punjab, 315 in Sindh, 47 in K-P and 28 in Balochistan. Similarly, 477 such cases were reported in 2014. Of these, 80 cases belonged to Punjab, 287 to Sindh, 78 to K-P and 32 to Balochistan.

As per Inspector General of Police Islamabad, six cases of non-Muslims’ killings were registered in the capital city during the last two years. Of these two cases were challaned, one remained untraced, whereas three cases are under investigation. However, no case of honour killing was registered in the capital during the last two years.

The assembly was told that these Human Rights regional offices are pursuing the cases with agencies concerned and are taking action against culprits to ensure justice to the aggrieved families.

However, the interior ministry and National Police Bureau informed the National Assembly that they did not have any requisite data regarding these crimes.

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Jaem
Jaem
9 years ago

There is no honor among people whose pride and vanity cause the murder of their own children.

Its Me
Its Me
9 years ago

They kill cartoonists who “dishonor” their bloodthirsty God, but it is somehow “honorable” to kill girls who have somehow violated the family’s control over reproductive rights.

Kathleen Lajoie
Kathleen Lajoie
9 years ago
Reply to  Its Me

You should not capitalize God…it is a god so called worshipped. Can you walk up to it and touch it? No. It is not God….just their evil imagination.

Mickey Oberman
Mickey Oberman
9 years ago

We should all wear a big “I am an Islamophobe” badge.

Pray Hard
Pray Hard
9 years ago
Reply to  Mickey Oberman

We should all wear a badge saying “There is no such thing as Islamofauxbia”

Pray Hard
Pray Hard
9 years ago

Only the tip of the iceberg.

Raymond Alan Riddell
Raymond Alan Riddell
9 years ago

Honour. In Islam it’s a License To Kill.
What’s worse. …
They Have No Clue What “Honour”
Really Is.

Matt (82)
Matt (82)
9 years ago

Stop calling them honor killings, for one.

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