'Honour Killings' in Pakistan and Compliance of ... - Aurat Foundation

eporting it will do when registering cases. The duty of the police should
include asking questions to gather more holistic data on the incident.
While the data would not form part of the complaint, observations of the
reporting officer should also be added at the end. A question that can
validly be asked is, is this non-creative, minimal information and unclear
attitude also adopted by the police during investigation
5.2 Reported Cases of Honour Killings
(i)
Case Law in Pakistan
The courts, both district and senior level, are regularly faced with honour
killings in its various forms. Having examined how the courts dealt with
this issue pre-2004, an examination was carried out of court cases
spanning the last 5 years. Not all cases since 2005 have been discussed
here, but a general opinion has been formed, which is supplemented with
examples.
Some interesting observations can be made straightaway. For example,
the majority of cases that have come to the senior judiciary have been in
Lahore, with Karachi as the second most approached court. There has
been no reported judgment on honour killings from Balochistan to the
knowledge of the researcher, and only a handful in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Another interesting discovery was that the defence of provocation was
being used freely, much as in the pre-2004 years.
Supreme Court
Cases that have come before the Supreme Court have discussed the issue
of honour killings, and alongside it the plea of grave and sudden
provocation.
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