When a man murders his daughter because she was in love with a boy from another caste, it’s a wake-up call for society. Govindaraju, the distraught young man, who was present at the scene when his beloved was murdered in cold blood, and has been living in constant fear ever since, pours his heart out to Praveen Kumar, who tracked him down to his hideaway.

An undercurrent of tension is palpable in Abalawadi, some 40 kilometres from Mandya in Karnataka, as the police keep a watchful eye after a shocking incident of honour killing in the village has come to light. Two months ago, it is alleged, Suvarna, a 22-year-old Vokkaliga girl, was forced to hang herself to death by her own father and relatives because she was in love with a Dalit boy, Govindaraju.

A Swiss prosecutor has described as a "veritable slaughter" the vicious axe murder of a 16-year-old girl by her 53-year-old Pakistani father, who believed his daughter had tarnished her family's honour.

The charge sheet presented by prosecutor Ulrich Krättli suggests he will call for the accused to be given life in prison, the maximum sentence under Swiss law, when the high-profile case goes to trial on March 14th.

On May 10th 2010, 16-year-old Swera was picked up at a Zurich police station by both her parents. She had been held there by police after she was arrested for a minor theft.

A Kuwaiti man was stopped by police as he attempted to shave his sister’s head on the suspicion that she was behaving inappropriately on her mobile phone, reported al-Watan newspaper.

According to the newspaper the man, who was not named, went through his sister’s phone and found messages of a romantic nature which enraged him.

He began to shave her head as punishment and to “protect” his family’s honor, the Egyptian online newspaper Bikaya Masr quotes al-Watan as reporting.

KARACHI, Jan 10: A woman lawmaker highlighted a horrendous incident of Karo-kari vengeance in the Sindh Assembly on Tuesday and demanded punishment for the culprits and measures to curb the scourge in the province.

The law minister said he had already sought a report on the Monday incident and assured the house that the culprits would not get away with the crime.

Tuesday being private members day, neither any of the resolutions nor any motion could be taken up from the order of the day for want of time. The house was called to order at 1.30pm, hours behind its scheduled time of 10am. After the points of order and question hour sessions, the house continued general discussion on a resolution moved jointly by a number of lawmakers on the 84th birth anniversary of the founder chairman of the Pakistan People’s Party, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto.

THE National Commission on the Status of Women (NCSW) has few days ago called upon the president to extend the scope of women-friendly legislations to the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) by invoking the powers bestowed upon him under Article 247 of the Constitution.

In a letter sent to the president, the NCSW stressed that the recent laws passed regarding women’s rights on harassment and acid throwing incidents should be extended to Fata.

By sending this letter, the commission had pointed out a very important issue related to the inhabitants of Fata. However, along with Fata the commission should also have demanded the extension of these laws to the Provincially Administered Tribal Areas (Pata), which, like Fata, enjoys different status than that of rest of the country under Article 247 of the Constitution.

FAISALABAD: A man was handed over to Nishatabad police on Sunday for allegedly killing his niece and a man he believed to be her paramour.

Complaint Abdul Ghafoor, a resident of Chak 49-JB Bathan and father of the deceased girl, Razia, stated in his complaint that his brother Riasat had killed Allah Ditta and Razia on suspicion that the two had an illicit relationship. He said the family had caught Ditta, who entered the house by jumping over the boundary wall. He said Riasat started beating Ditta and questioned his intentions. He said Riasat suspected that Ditta had come to meet his daughter so he attacked them both with an axe, killing them on the spot.

FAMILY and friends of a Scots businessman and his wife murdered in a suspected "honour" killing in Pakistan have made a fresh appeal for justice, more than two months after their deaths.

They are increasingly concerned there has been no positive progress in interviewing or extraditing the chief suspect in the murders from the US to Pakistan.

Saif Rehman, 31, and his American wife Uzma Naurin, 30, were shot dead when their car was ambushed on November 1 in Lalamusa in the Punjab province of Pakistan.

Honour killings and domestic disputes claimed lives of 605 women and 115 men in Sindh in 2011.

According to study conducted by Research and Development for Human Resources (RDHR) Women Rights Cell, 284 women were killed in the name of honour killing and 321 women over domestic matters.

According to a report, 22 women in the name of honour and 17 women over domestic matters were killed in January; 21 and 20 in February; 26 and 23 in March; 26 and 22 in May; 29 and 44 in June; 34 and 21 women in July; 24 and 32 in August; 21 and 24 in September; 22 and 34 in October, 12 and 31 in November, while 15 and 20 women were killed in the name of honour and domestic disputes respectively in December.
According to a report, 115 men were also killed in the name of honour killing.

VANCOUVER — The mother and the uncle of a woman killed in the Punjab more than 11 years ago - allegedly because her wealthy Canadian family was scandalized by her secret marriage to a poor rickshaw driver - were taken into custody over the weekend facing possible extradition to India to be tried for the murder.

It’s the next step toward possible justice in the sensational murder, the news of which was first broken by the Vancouver Province less than two weeks after the gruesome killing in 2000 of the young and beautiful Jassi Sidhu and the near-fatal beating of the devoted man she loved.