Pakistan

Pakistan: 90 honour killings reported in first quarter of 2008

"Aurat Foundation Peshawar Resident Director Rukhshanda Naz cited lengthy judicial procedure and delay in disposal of such cases as the main reasons for increase in honour killing in the country."

Pakistan: Letter-writing campaign for women buried alive

Human Rights groups express grave concern for the recent incident in a remote village of Balochistan where women were brutally shot and apparently buried alive, three for choosing whom to marry and the other two for supporting them. Click here for more!

UPDATE: Pakistan: Activists respond to women buried alive; no cultural justifications for murder!

Burying of women alive defended in Pakistani Senate.

Pakistan: Cinq femmes enterrées vivantes au Pakistan

AHRC a été informée depuis une lointaine zone de la province du Baloutchistan que cinq femmes y ont été enterrée vivante.

Pakistan: Five women allegedly buried alive

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from a remote area of Balochistan province, that five women were buried alive.

Pakistan: WAF Statement on Dr. Afia Siddiqui’s disappearance

All chapters of Women’s Action Forum (WAF) express their deepest shock and concern in the case of Dr. Afia Siddiqui, a Pakistani citizen who disappeared from Karachi in 2003 along with her 3 children, one only month old.

Pakistan: Young couple faces murder in the name of "honour"

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a young couple has been threatened with death because they married without the permission of their parents.

Pakistan: Women warned to wear burqa in Kohat

On Tuesday local Taliban pasted leaflets at mosques in Bilitang town, 22 km east of Kohat city in Pakistan's Northwest Frontier Province, warning women and schoolgirls to wear the burqa and not to venture out of their houses without a male family member.

Pakistan: "Daughters Bear the Cost of Pakistan's Family Feuds"

Vani is a forced marriage custom in the tribal areas and province of Punjab, in Pakistan. This custom is tied to blood feuds among the different tribes and clans where the girls are forcibly married to the members of different clans to resolve feuds.

Pakistan: Les talibans brûlent les écoles de filles

La population de Mingora s'inquiète des accords de paix signés entre les autorités pakistanaises et les talibans installés par la force. Ils font souffrir les femmes.