Honor killings in Pakistan
Honor killings have become very common in Pakistan especially in Sindh and in tribal areas of Pakistan. In Pakistan hundreds of women are killed every year in the name of honor. Such a cruel custom has existed in our country from so many years. Honor killings are common in all over the country, though in some areas the incidents of honor killings have taken a shockingly high amount of incidents in recent years. In Azad Kashmir a mother helped her husband in killing their 15 year old daughter because they saw her talking to a young man. They killed her by dousing her acid. Her elder sister was not in favor of this custom and she was very anxious about that crime which her parents had committed. She demanded justice and police investigation for her sister but all went in vain because it was done in the name of so called ‘honour’. Our state also goes after the satisfaction of honor in foreign policy. Our society has become so cruel under the involuntarily accepted conduct guideline of the Taliban. The people who are killed in the name of honor are mostly women.
Rising honor is an illustrative feature in our judicial system; it is giving concession to the violence in our society. The education system of Pakistan has fallen down. The rising madrassas have strengthened the fire of honor rather than putting it out from our educational system. The three territories of Pakistan, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P), Swat and Azad Kashmir, were most excellently running their primary education system but it was destroyed by the earthquake of 2005. Taliban’s are also destroying the educational system of these territories. The parliamentarians of our country are also in favor of honor killing. It was seen in 1999 when a lady was...
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...ducational system of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P), Swat and Azad Kashmir.
• The parliamentarians of our country are also in favor of honor killing.
• In 1999 a lady was killed in the name of honor in the office of human rights lawyers Lahore because she demanded her right to marry the man of her choice. The lady did not get the justice.
• In Pakistan the honor of a man rely on the behavior of her woman Women are always expected to behave modestly.
• Killing of the disobedient women is seen as a refinement of the family.
• Women are always expected to behave decently in our society because if they do any damaging act it will bring shame and dishonor to the male members of their family.
• If we want to maintain our self-esteem and honor then we should not keep away our female children from higher realization of our society and Islamic norms and values. (Editorial, 2012)
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