Pakistan orders investigation into suspected honour killings

Almost 1,000 women were killed in the name of honour in the South Asian nation
last year, according to the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan. Activists
say the actual number is much higher as a majority of cases go unreported.

Government officials, from Interior Minister Rehman Malik, to regional police
officers and administrators, said they had no knowledge of any such killings
in the village of Gizar Alitray. But local officials have so far failed to
provide proof that the women are still alive.

“So far, according to our information, nothing like this has happened,”
Malik told reporters. “The chief justice is right, though, if the women
are alive, produce them.”

In the grainy video, two boys dance as four women sing and clap while sitting.
No frame shows the men and women together, raising the possibility the video
was doctored.

The Supreme Court told officials if they believed the women were alive, they
should go to the village, by helicopter if necessary, and find them.

Officials attempted to reach Gizar Alitray but bad weather forced them to land
in another village.

“Our helicopter is stuck here. We will try to go there again tomorrow
morning,” one of the officials, Khalid Umarzai, told Reuters by
telephone.

Source: Reuters

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