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court settlement is preferred. Such matters are out of the hands of the police as it is. The police also have a lack of funds and personnel to deal with these cases. They are often deployed for other priorities, e.g. to combat terrorism or for VIP duty. There is a shortage of staff and personnel with the relevant expertise to deal with such cases. Often when life threats to victims are reported, the police may not have the staff or facilities to be able to get there in time to prevent the crime. Nor do they have the capacity to effectively provide the necessary protection for potential victims. The police can, and also does, play an extremely negative role in some cases. For example, even when honour killings are reported to the police, by using technical language and entries, they manage to avoid the filing of the case as an honour killing. The cases are entered as murder and deliberately misrepresented, as are other sexual offences, and also cases involving land or inheritance matters. The words ‘honour killing’ are never actually used, which means that any positive aspect of the 2004 legislation is avoided such as the restrictions on compromise etc. The police is also known to take bribes to change the crime from honour killing to anything else. The law also states that any law under the ‘pretext’ of honour should fall under this legislation, however, this is not followed. The FIR and investigation are vital in any criminal case, especially honour killings. If these are not done properly, the entire case collapses. Incomplete or wrong FIRs and inept investigations are common, and are largely responsible for the low rate of convictions. They can be blamed on the lack of capacity of the police, but are also deliberately done to weaken the case and favour the perpetrator. 71
It is usually difficult for the police to control honour killings because of the prevailing tribal and zamindar system in the country. When senior, powerful and, often, political individuals are involved, the police is often stopped from doing their job, and are told by their seniors, who are pressured by influential people, to stop investigating, or to come up with a certain result. Due to unwillingness to even recognise honour killings, districts such as Nowshera do not have any record of honour killings, despite the fact that a number of such crimes have been committed. This also results in restrictions on the media, who use the words quoted in the FIRs, which do not mention ‘honour’. Therefore, in such districts, without aggressive media attention, there is also a lack of media reporting on the issue. Also due to the majority of cases ending in compromise, the police involvement becomes redundant. They, in fact, support and try to work towards effecting a compromise sooner rather than later. 72
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A Pilot Study on: ‘Honour Killing
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Table of Contents Preface 1 Introdu
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Preface Elimination of all negative
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the nature and extent of its compli
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Introduction The Criminal Law (Amen
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formalised by the State and ‘lega
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Gender is one of the organisational
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their rights were achieved on paper
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elatives), in effect excluding all
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3. “Honour Killings”: their Pre
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patrilineage 17 . From this follows
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Page 33 and 34: Article 340 of the Jordanian Penal
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Page 39 and 40: The discretion of the court to deci
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Page 49 and 50: Findings of the Research The findin
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Page 53 and 54: Gujrat Gujrat also shows a similar
Page 55 and 56: community. Perhaps this has been on
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Page 59 and 60: Jillani reiterated Justice Abbasi
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Page 76 and 77: Role of the Community It is general
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