Teenage girl, boyfriend beheaded by father and uncle in Attock village

[ranjeet]

An 18-year-old girl was beheaded along with her 21-year-old boyfriend by her father and uncle in what the police are calling yet another incident of honour killing, DawnNews TVreported on Monday.

The incident, that took place in a small village in Attock district, transpired when the man arrived at the girl's house to meet her, police said. Soon after, the girl's father Masood and her uncle Waheed walked in and, after tying the victims with ropes, beheaded them with a sharp object.

The police have arrested both suspects and recovered the murder weapon as well, Sub-inspector of Saddar police station Asif Khan told DawnNews TV. The bodies of both victims have been sent to District Headquarters Hospital for an autopsy after which they will be returned to their families. A case of double-murder has also been registered.

Honour killings continue despite new laws
Scores of people in Pakistan, an overwhelming majority of whom are women, are still being murdered by relatives for bringing 'shame' on their family, more than a year since new laws came into force aimed at stemming the menace of 'honour killings'. In October 2016, a joint sitting of both houses of parliament passed two key pro-women bills that had been pending assent for a long time.

The move at that time was cautiously hailed by women's rights activists. More than a year on, however, lawyers and activists say honour killings are still occurring at an alarming pace.

At least 280 such murders were recorded by the independent Human Rights Commission of Pakistan from October 2016 to June 2017 ─ a figure believed to be understated and incomplete.

The legislation mandates life imprisonment for honour killings, but whether a murder can be defined as a crime of honour is left to the judge's discretion.

That means the culprits can simply claim another motive and still be pardoned, according to Dr Farzana Bari, a widely respected activist and head of the Gender Studies Department at Islamabad's Quaid-i-Azam University.

https://www.dawn.com/news/1434717/t...eheaded-by-father-and-uncle-in-attock-village

 

[El Sidd]

There is No honor in killing

 

[fitpOsitive]

An 18-year-old girl was beheaded along with her 21-year-old boyfriend by her father and uncle in what the police are calling yet another incident of honour killing, DawnNews TVreported on Monday.

The incident, that took place in a small village in Attock district, transpired when the man arrived at the girl's house to meet her, police said. Soon after, the girl's father Masood and her uncle Waheed walked in and, after tying the victims with ropes, beheaded them with a sharp object.

The police have arrested both suspects and recovered the murder weapon as well, Sub-inspector of Saddar police station Asif Khan told DawnNews TV. The bodies of both victims have been sent to District Headquarters Hospital for an autopsy after which they will be returned to their families. A case of double-murder has also been registered.

Honour killings continue despite new laws
Scores of people in Pakistan, an overwhelming majority of whom are women, are still being murdered by relatives for bringing 'shame' on their family, more than a year since new laws came into force aimed at stemming the menace of 'honour killings'. In October 2016, a joint sitting of both houses of parliament passed two key pro-women bills that had been pending assent for a long time.

The move at that time was cautiously hailed by women's rights activists. More than a year on, however, lawyers and activists say honour killings are still occurring at an alarming pace.

At least 280 such murders were recorded by the independent Human Rights Commission of Pakistan from October 2016 to June 2017 ─ a figure believed to be understated and incomplete.

The legislation mandates life imprisonment for honour killings, but whether a murder can be defined as a crime of honour is left to the judge's discretion.

That means the culprits can simply claim another motive and still be pardoned, according to Dr Farzana Bari, a widely respected activist and head of the Gender Studies Department at Islamabad's Quaid-i-Azam University.

https://www.dawn.com/news/1434717/t...eheaded-by-father-and-uncle-in-attock-village

Atleast they were not killed because they were hindus.

 

[ranjeet]

Atleast they were not killed because they were hindus.

I am sure both the girl and the boy would have been pleased to know that.

 

[Cthulhu]

Holy Sh!t.

 

[Saddam Hussein]

That honor-shame mentality can weigh so heavily on some people that they can go this far, a problem of society. The issue is that going against this will pull it to the far opposite (the west) where women go with anyone and everyone without limitation.

 

[prashantazazel]

That honor-shame mentality can weigh so heavily on some people that they can go this far, a problem of society. The issue is that going against this will pull it to the far opposite (the west) where women go with anyone and everyone without limitation.

And men don't?

 

[Saddam Hussein]

And men don't?

Women are naturally the 'gatekeepers' of sex, the ones that men compete for whilst all they have to do is accept or reject. Hence this power lies in the hands of women not men, when you give the woman the complete freedom and remove any shame attributed to it, change the morality about this upheld by the society then women will do things publicly as seen in the west today. It's not good for society, marriages and doesn't fit in with the values of Islam to start with.

Whilst we have problems in the region with these extremists/nutcases who kill women for their 'honor' we must not fix it by copying what the west has become.

 

[prashantazazel]

Women are naturally the 'gatekeepers' of sex, the ones that men compete for whilst all they have to do is accept or reject. Hence this power lies in the hands of women not men, when you give the woman the complete freedom and remove any shame attributed to it, change the morality about this upheld by the society then women will do things publicly as seen in the west today. It's not good for society, marriages and doesn't fit in with the values of Islam to start with.

Whilst we have problems in the region with these extremists/nutcases who kill women for their 'honor' we must not fix it by copying what the west has become.

Women compete for the men too. Just that they are more selective.

 

[Vortex]

Very sad. This behaviour can only be eradicated if education is properly done and law is applied.

Imran khan should force also the application of law

 

[SecularNationalist]

the father and uncle should get a$$ pounding in jail till they die

 

[War Thunder]

Women compete for the men too. Just that they are more selective.

Women are targets of ill intended lusts and intentions amongst lesser and vile men.
Their physical beauty when exhibited can attract the vile creatures, and when hidden can help the real men see their inner/spiritual beauty and reality.
The same stands for their behavior.

Vile men aka Shallow creeps make a larger percentage of the male population in the world, how their attacks are fended off is up to the women then.

But of course, sick minded and lustful women who get convinced of their shallow nature of beauty only and become blind to exhibiting their inner self, they keep going to lower levels of morality and will act as a conduit to attarcting wrong intentions.


That' we call psychology btw...

 

[prashantazazel]

Women are targets of ill intended lusts and intentions amongst lesser and vile men.
Their physical beauty when exhibited can attract the vile creatures, and when hidden can help the real men see their inner/spiritual beauty and reality.
The same stands for their behavior.

Vile men aka Shallow creeps make a larger percentage of the male population in the world, how their attacks are fended off is up to the women then.

But of course, sick minded and lustful women who get convinced of their shallow nature of beauty only and become blind to exhibiting their inner self, they keep going to lower levels of morality and will act as a conduit to attarcting wrong intentions.


That' we call psychology btw...

Disagree. I think the conservatives are of a vile and violent nature. History proves it. Even currently, they are the most violent ones and demonstrate primitive mentality.

 

[TMA]

Women are naturally the 'gatekeepers' of sex, the ones that men compete for whilst all they have to do is accept or reject. Hence this power lies in the hands of women not men, when you give the woman the complete freedom and remove any shame attributed to it, change the morality about this upheld by the society then women will do things publicly as seen in the west today. It's not good for society, marriages and doesn't fit in with the values of Islam to start with.

Whilst we have problems in the region with these extremists/nutcases who kill women for their 'honor' we must not fix it by copying what the west has become.

Glad someone is reading between the lines...

 

[Netherdrake]

Both father and uncle should be publicly hanged