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A Pilot Study on: ‘Honour Killings’ in Pakistan and Compliance of Law By Maliha Zia Lari Published under Legislative Watch Programme for Women’s Empowerment Aurat Foundation
About the Author The author is a High Court Advocate with an LLM in Human Rights from School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. She has been working on women's human rights, specifically women's legal rights for the last 8 years. She has worked with several NGOs and international organisations providing gender analysis of Pakistani law, drafting of laws and as a trainer. Her work has included several reports, articles and trainings given on issue of international human rights treaties, including CEDAW and discrimination against women in law and the judiciary. Currently she is practising law in the Sindh High Court at Karachi and continuing her work as a free lance gender and legal consultant. All rights reserved This publication is provided gratis or sold, subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, re-sold, hired out or otherwise circulated without the publisher’s prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than in which it is published and without a similar condition being imposed on the subsequent publisher. Preferences to this report and excerpts of the report can be reproduced with due acknowledge of the publication and Aurat Publication and Information Service Foundation (AF). Published by: Aurat Publication and Information Service Foundation Title painting by: Aliya Mirza Title technical design by: Black Box Sounds Layout design by: Shahzad Ashraf Printing by: Crystal Printers Date of publication: November, 2011
Page 4: Table of Contents Preface 1 Introdu
Page 8 and 9: Preface Elimination of all negative
Page 10 and 11: the nature and extent of its compli
Page 12 and 13: Introduction The Criminal Law (Amen
Page 14: formalised by the State and ‘lega
Page 17 and 18: Gender is one of the organisational
Page 19 and 20: their rights were achieved on paper
Page 21 and 22: elatives), in effect excluding all
Page 24 and 25: 3. “Honour Killings”: their Pre
Page 26 and 27: patrilineage 17 . From this follows
Page 28 and 29: compensation negotiated to end a di
Page 30: divorced or excommunicated, an act
Page 33 and 34: Article 340 of the Jordanian Penal
Page 35 and 36: monitor women’s movements and kil
Page 37 and 38: mitigation, compensation for the he
Page 39 and 40: The discretion of the court to deci
Page 41 and 42: down for such cases. This applies t
Page 43 and 44: to properly determine the issue bef
Page 45 and 46: Table 1: Number & Percentages of Ca
Page 47 and 48: the police stations are not even eq
Page 49 and 50: Findings of the Research The findin
Page 51 and 52: When asked about the lack of filing
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Gujrat Gujrat also shows a similar
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community. Perhaps this has been on
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eporting it will do when registerin
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Jillani reiterated Justice Abbasi
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death and it was subsequently disco
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Lahore High Court The Lahore High C
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meditation falling under the defini
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for conservative and biased interpr
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6. Perspective of the Community Whi
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mindset and existing confining soci
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even if cases are brought to them,
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Role of the Community It is general
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court settlement is preferred. Such
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7. Conclusion and Main Findings It
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6. There are also problems with the
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12. These precedents are not necess
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hold through these illegal forms of
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24. The police can play a very nega
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The police system is in dire need o
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