Pakistan: Four women allegedly murdered under the pretext of 'honour'

Submitted by wluml on Mon, 02/05/2007 - 00:00

Violence against women
[violence] honour crimes

Just fourteen days after the National Assembly of Pakistan passed a Women's Protection Bill in order to provide relief and protection to women against the abuse of laws against premarital and extramarital sex, WLUML is deeply concerned to learn of another brutal "honour killing" case reported, from the Shikarpur district in the Sindh Province of Pakistan on 29 November 2006.