Five Pakistanis die in suspected honour killing

Reuters ^ | January 4, 2005 | Reuters

[miltonim]

MULTAN, Pakistan (Reuters) - Five family members were murdered in a suspected honour killing in Pakistan on Tuesday, police said, shortly before a law took effect making such crimes a capital offence.

Gunmen broke into the home of Munnawar Mai and opened fire, killing Mai, her husband Mukhtar and their two-year-old son as well as the mother and a brother of Mukhtar, police said.

Mai and Mukhtar eloped and married in 2002, defying her parents wish that she wed a cousin. Mai's family was still angry over her marriage, police chief Mohammad Jamil said.

"There appears to be an element of honour killing in this incident," he told Reuters. Police have detained three people in connection with the attack.

The incident happened shortly before President Pervez Musharraf signed a bill into law making such honour killings a capital offence, official media said.

Hundreds of women are murdered each year in rural Pakistan for adultery, choosing partners without family permission or failing to fetch an adequate dowry.

Rights activists say the new law is a step toward curbing violence against women but note it will allow murderers to settle their crime out of court by paying compensation to relatives of the victims under Islamic law.

There were more than 1,200 honour killings in Pakistan in 2003, officials said.

[tkathy]

"There were more than 1,200 honour killings in Pakistan in 2003, officials said."

Probably 10 or 100 times that.

[Nuzcruizer]

Honor killing is just one of the many legal ways to kill someone for the followers of the peaceful religion of Mad man pedophile Muhammad. (what I just typed is another).
No true beliver of the blood cult can go very long without spilling someones blood.

[Beckwith]

The more I read about the actual behavior of the followers of muhammed I become convinced that islam is a chronic disease.

[samtheman]

Hundreds of women are murdered each year in rural Pakistan for adultery, choosing partners without family permission or failing to fetch an adequate dowry.

And NOW says what? And "women's rights" groups say what? And the rising crescendo of criticism from "progressive women" around the world will begin when?

[marktwain]

And NOW says what? And "women's rights" groups say what? And the rising crescendo of criticism from "progressive women" around the world will begin when?

My guess is that they would say that it is a small price to pay for effective allies in bringing down the evil U.S.A. Communists have a long history of killing innocents in their lust for power. Feminism has become just another way to destroy the U.S. If you think of that as their primary reason for existence instead of so called "women's issues" many of their seemingly contradictory actions make sense.