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

In this charged atmosphere, the Middle East Media Research Institute’s (MEMRI) announcement in June of a new Balochistan ...

Each instance is one of control and of repudiation of a woman as an equal, with rights identical to men. The world has moved ...

This is not the first such case in Pakistan. It will not be the last.

A court in Quetta has remanded a woman to the Serious Crime Investigation Wing for two days in connection with the double murder case in Sanjidi involving her daughter, Bano Bibi.The anti-terrorism ...

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 ...

Aurat Foundation reports a troubling surge in honour killings in Balochistan, with 212 cases from 2019 to 2024. The systemic failures in addressing gender-based violence are evident, with activists ...

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 ...