Source: ET
Police said the girl was tied to a tree at her home in Chak 151/10-R in Jahanian and set on fire. PHOTO: FILE
Honour killing is everything but that. It has its roots in a perversion of the moral code where right and wrong are reversed, and mindsets geared to an ancient primitivism that places women in the category of possessions and makes them the repository of the so-called ‘honour’ of the family — a curse they bear all their lives. Whilst it is incorrect to say that the phenomenon of honour killing is confined to Pakistan, the country is among the world leaders when it comes to the number of women killed for ‘honour’ every year. Not for nothing is Pakistan described as one of the most dangerous countries for women with documented cases running at around 500 annually. And this, too, is almost certainly an under-reporting according to a lecture delivered by Dr Muazzam Nasrullah at the University of Health Sciences in Lahore.
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