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GILGIT: At least six people lost their lives in two separate cases of ‘honour’ killing. Four people, including two women, were gunned down in Gilgit-Baltistan (G-B) late Sunday night, while two pedestrians caught in the line of fire were also injured. Senior police official Jehangir Khan on Monday said armed men barged into a house and .. read more
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PAKPATTAN: Brothers gunned down their own sister and her husband over their marriage by choice and voluntarily surrendered themselves in the police station, Geo News reported on Sunday. Police said that one Sana and Amjad of Chak number 107 had married by choice, but the Punchaiyet had sent Sana back to her parent’s house, in .. read more
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CHARASADDA: A man and his two sons were gunned down in what appeared to be a case of honour killing in Majoki, on the outskirts of Charsadda, on Thursday. Prang police official Amir Nawaz said the deceased were working in their bakery when they were shot. Fawad Ali registered a case with the police that his .. read more
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The Karnataka Child Rights Observatory has come up with a set of recommendations to completely eliminate child marriage from the country. This follows months after India refused to sign a global resolution, led by the United Nations, against early and forced child marriage. As per the recommendations, Zilla panchayats in Karnataka should be given the .. read more
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OTTAWA – A top United Nations official is praising the Harper government’s foreign policy initiative to end forced marriage of young girls, even if Canada won’t fund projects that would allow victims access to an abortion. The Conservative government’s practice of not allowing aid dollars to go towards organizations that offer abortions to victimized girls .. read more
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Pabbi: In what appears to be a case of honour killing, a girl and her friend were allegedly killed by her brothers in Azakhel, Nowshera district on Saturday. Azakhel ASI Shaukat Ali, who is investigating the case, said he was informed on Saturday afternoon that two people had been shot dead on Cherat Road. He .. read more
SUKKUR: Four people were killed in two separate incidents of Karo-Kari within the RD-109 police limits near Buxapur in Kashmore district on Saturday. The first incident took place in the village of Yar Mohammad Jakhrani, where a man and woman were gunned down on suspicion of illicit relations. Miran Jakhrani suspected that his daughter was .. read more
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PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court (PHC) on Monday dismissed the bail petition of a lawyer charged with honour killing and directed the trial court to decide the case within six months. A single bench of PHC Chief Justice Dost Muhammad Khan dismissed the bail petition of the accused Yousaf Shah hailing from Mardan district. He .. read more
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Two Jordanians were sentenced to death in an Amman criminal court for the death of their sister earlier this year. Defense of their intention “to cleanse the family’s honor,” failed in court, official stated. “The two men, aged 23 and 20, took their divorced sister, also in her twenties, to the garden of their house .. read more
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KARNAL: In yet another suspected case of honour killing in Haryana, a 21-year-old boy was allegedly killed in a village of Karnal district by father of the girl he loved. Ravinder, a resident of Kutail village near Gharounda town, was allegedly killed since they were from different caste. Sources said that Ravinder loved a 20-year-old .. read more
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