[gatagato]

These teenage girls were murdered alongside their mother – for apparently “dishonouring” their family by allowing themselves to be filmed playing and dancing in the rain.

Noor Basra and Noor Sheza, aged 15 and 16, died last Sunday when five masked men burst into their home in the northern Pakistan region of Gilgit and began firing. Their mother Noshehra was also killed in the attack.

Police believe the girls’ stepbrother Khutore interpreted the video as “an assault on the honour of his family” and tried to “restore the family’s honour” by killing them, Pakistan’s Dawn newspaper reports.

Khutore’s whereabouts are unknown but four of his friends confessed to the murders, a senior police source told the newspaper.

The footage, which shows the sisters wearing traditional shalwar kameez trouser suits and headscarves while dancing and smiling at the camera, was filmed six months ago and was circulated via mobile phones, apparently causing outrage in their conservative Pakistani hometown.

The girls’ other teenage brother has also filed a case against Khutore and his four alleged accomplices, all of whom are now on the run, The Sunday Times reports.

The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan said that in 2011, 943 women were killed for apparently causing shame to their families, the Telegraph reported last year.

The figure is an increase of more than 100 in 2010.

In November a Pakistani couple admitted killing their 15-year-old daughter because she "looked at a boy".

The girl's father told the BBC they flung acid at her because they feared her act would bring dishonour on the family.

He said: "There was a boy who came by on a motorcycle. She (Anusha) turned to look at him twice. I told her not to do that, it's wrong."

Her mother recounted: "She said 'I didn't do it on purpose. I won't look again'. By then I had already thrown the acid. It was her destiny to die this way."

http://www.news.com.au/world-news/as...-1226672330529
http://beta.dawn.com/news/1020576


1,000 Pakistani women and girls honour killing victims
Almost 1,000 Pakistani women and girls were murdered last year in honour killings, according to a new report by the country's leading human rights group.

Hundreds were killed by their fathers, husbands or brothers, highlighting the frightening scale of violence suffered by women who are frequently treated as second-class citizens and subject to village justice.

Many cases are covered up by relatives and sympathetic police officers.

The true toll is believed to be much higher.

In its annual report, the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan said at least 943 women were killed in 2011 for damaging their family name. The number marks an increase of more than 100 on 2010.

"Throughout the year, women were callously killed in the name of 'honour' when they went against family wishes in any way, or even on the basis of suspicion that they did so," it concluded. "Women were sometimes killed in the name of 'honour' over property disputes and inheritance rights." Despite progress on better protecting women's rights, activists say the government needs to do more to prosecute murderers in cases largely dismissed by police as private, family affairs.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...g-victims.html

It is IMPOSSIBLE that shit like this happens without the support of the government, the inactivity of the police, the help of most of the population. However, between 2002-2010, Pakistan received approximately $18 billion in military and economic aid, only from the United States, knowing in advance that the 99% of those money will be misspent, stolen and wasted. The entire world should turn its back on these beasts, stop aid, set up embargos and sanctions until they realize that we're in 2013. Yes, it sounds cruel and unjust, but they are already living in the stone age, so i don't see how this would worsen the problem. Perhaps, starving to death will convince them that they're wrong, as there's no hope that they will ever understand any other language.

[Bastet]

The concept of 'honor killings' is one of the most morbid jokes I know. I've said this before, and I will say it again: if one is so damn afraid of losing their honor, all they need to do is to take their own life instead of killing others. It's really that simple

[Megamel29]

I can't understand this backwards logic. When does it end?? I've had it with the senseless deaths of innocents.

[chefbob09]

that will teach them

[Kanda444]

fuckin disgusting animals. how is killing a family member for enjoying themselves considered 'honorable'?

[Faline]

Ffs scumbags

[ices]

And here in the west you have fem nazis spouting about how they're downtrodden.

[Lana-Banana]

This is nothing...you walk a day in their shoes and you master the definition of what "freedom" is.

[kellyhound]

even wild animals are more humane towards their own family/group.

[Sharon]

Makes.Me.Fucking.Sick.

Cases like this make my eyes well up, how can you possibly even contemplate murdering two youngsters for having fun?? Dread to think what goes on behind closed doors or what the authorities keep quiet over here