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murder, as all honour killings are, but the motive is not mentioned, and they are classified as simple murder as opposed to honour crimes or honour killings. This reflects a social bias in such areas against the concept of reporting honour killings as a public issue, as opposed to a private, family issue. Also, the main form of documentation with the police is FIRs. They do not keep records of cases files that are passed on to the court, nor are they regularly updated with what is happening with the case. Therefore, if the police have registered a case, they may have no idea of what the end result was. What happened to the case Was the accused found guilty or not guilty Further, there are cases that are reported as ‘honour killings’ in police reports that were actually cases of domestic violence and domestic homicide. This exhibits a lack of knowledge of the aspects of both honour killings and/or domestic violence. As far as the police was concerned, a woman being killed in an argument with her husband or her in-laws made it an honour killing as she ‘argued too much’ with her husband. Certain reports were recovered on an ad hoc basis from the courts. Initial efforts were made to recover court data with regards to honour killings, but the red tapism made it extremely difficult to do so. In courtrooms where researchers were given access, similar problems of data recovery and consolidation faced them. It also proved to be difficult to interview all those who the researchers set out to interview. The majority of the attempted interviews failed as people were reluctant to comment on the issue. Those who had suffered directly or indirectly from this custom were even more silent on the matter. It became difficult to get people, especially community people, to speak on record on the issue. Judges also refused to give personal comments on the issue. 41
Findings of the Research The findings of the research have been placed in the table below. This data is the collated result of all the FIRs registered in the selected districts from 1 January 2005 to November 2010. One of the main aspects this study was interested in examining was comparing the number of cases registered as FIRs to the number of cases reported in the media. Unfortunately this comparison was only possible from 2008 when the Aurat Foundation Policy and Data Monitoring Project were initiated. Earlier statistics on honour killings are in a consolidated form according to province, as opposed to broken down district by district. Table 2: Data Gathered From FIRs across Chosen Districts No. Nowsher a FIRs 44 Nowshera Media Reports Ghotki FIRs Ghotki Media Reports Gujrat FIRs 45 Gujrat Media Reports Naseerabad FIRs Naseerabad Media Reports 2005 0 n/a 6 n/a * n/a 18 n/a 2006 0 n/a 11 n/a * n/a 18 n/a 2007 0 n/a 6 n/a * n/a 11 n/a 2008 0 0 16 36 2 1 12 34 2009 0 3 27 24 7 2 22 20 2010 0 1 42 37 17 05 8 10 44 No FIRs referring to honour killings are reported to have been registered in Nowshera. 45 Due to the floods of 2010, a large amount of data in Gujrat was destroyed, including all data relating to FIRs before 2008. 42
Page 2 and 3: A Pilot Study on: ‘Honour Killing
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: the police stations are not even eq
Page 51 and 52: When asked about the lack of filing
Page 53 and 54: Gujrat Gujrat also shows a similar
Page 55 and 56: community. Perhaps this has been on
Page 57 and 58: eporting it will do when registerin
Page 59 and 60: Jillani reiterated Justice Abbasi
Page 61 and 62: death and it was subsequently disco
Page 63 and 64: Lahore High Court The Lahore High C
Page 65 and 66: meditation falling under the defini
Page 67 and 68: for conservative and biased interpr
Page 70 and 71: 6. Perspective of the Community Whi
Page 72 and 73: mindset and existing confining soci
Page 74 and 75: even if cases are brought to them,
Page 76 and 77: Role of the Community It is general
Page 78 and 79: court settlement is preferred. Such
Page 80 and 81: 7. Conclusion and Main Findings It
Page 82 and 83: 6. There are also problems with the
Page 84 and 85: 12. These precedents are not necess
Page 86 and 87: hold through these illegal forms of
Page 88: 24. The police can play a very nega
Page 91: The police system is in dire need o

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