In a name of honour: Man murders cousin, injures sister
LAHORE: A male murdered his cousin and critically harmed his sister in an conflict in nonetheless another apparent ‘honour-motivated’ murdering in Lahore on Monday.
Police pronounced Yasir Gulfam, a proprietor of Ghavindi, was axed to genocide by Allah Wassaya when a plant had come to accommodate his cousin during her residence in Hadiara. The think also pounded his sister with a axe, exceedingly injuring her. The lady has been certified to a hospital, Cantonment SP Operations Rana Tahir said.
A box (385/16) has been purebred opposite a think underneath Section 302 of a Pakistan Penal Code on a censure of a deceased’s father, Ghulam Qadir.
Yasir’s hermit told a military his family had grown differences with his uncle’s family after his brother’s matrimony offer for a harmed lady was incited down.
‘Honour killings’
Two weeks ago, a teenaged tyro of Matriculation had shot passed her sister for refusing a matrimony offer of her family’s choice in Hadiara.
In May, a mom along with her son burnt alive her daughter for marrying off her choice in Factory Area.
According to a Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, scarcely 1,100 women were killed over ‘honour’ by kin in Pakistan final year alone.
Improved coverage
When asked because killings for honour were on a rise, media campaigns and constant efforts of rights organisations, Punjab Commission on Status of Women Chairperson Fauzia Viqar pronounced a incidents were not on arise though their stating had improved.
“No one dared to news these cases in a past. Police and other institutions also did not take seductiveness in them,” she said.
Zakria Zakar, a highbrow of sociology and criminology during Punjab University, pronounced a emanate was secure in a congenital mindset of multitude that has been prevalent for centuries. “Our eremite scholars and informative traditions make this mindset,” he believed. “First of all, we need to accept women as an eccentric identity, as created in a Constitution, and not a property,” Zakria said. “Secondly, a multitude needs to know honour is not within a lady alone; afterwards comes a legislation bit.”
Published in The Express Tribune, Dec 20th, 2016.
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