Crimes of `honour`

Dawn Editorial:

PAKISTAN, where the regularity with which honour killing is reported is matched only by the frequency with which the perpetrators go unpunished, would do well to take a leaf out of Belgium`s book.

On Monday, a court in Mons handed down lengthy sentences to the parents and siblings of Sadia Sheikh, shot dead in 2007 after moving in with a Belgian man and refusing to submit to an arranged marriage.

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