A court in Rawalpindi has ordered the exhumation of the 17-year-old newlywed honour killing victim's grave. The exhumation is ...

While federal law already criminalises honour killings, implementation remains patchy. As Fauzia Shaheen, former and first ...

In 2004, a landmark judgement by the Sindh High Court declared the jirga system illegal and against the Constitution and the law of the land. The order also compels the police to prevent jirga ...

Just when you think this country cannot surprise you anymore, it does. Just when you begin to believe you've grown numb to ...

The Senate on Thursday passed a resolution urging the government to ensure an immediate and transparent investigation into the recent public execution of a man and a woman in broad daylight in ...

In a resolution adopted almost unanimously, the Senate declared that so-called honour killings were not “honourable," rather constituted murder under the law and must be prosecuted as such.

A Pakistani woman, Gul Jan Bibi, was remanded to police custody for allegedly taking part in the honour killing of her ...

Pakistan’s society exists in a paradox. In its metropolitan centers, modernity is performed like a carefully rehearsed play, ...

Police say a local tribal chief who ordered the execution is among those detained in the deaths of a man and a woman accused ...

Pakistani authorities have arrested 14 people over the “honor killing” of a man and woman who were accused of having an ...

Body camera video shows the chaos after a father allegedly tried to strangle his 17-year-old daughter in a possible “honor ...

Police in southwestern Pakistan have arrested 14 suspects over the so-called honour killing of a couple accused of having an ...