After being lured to Pakistan, Hira Anwar was fatally shot by her father and an uncle over online posts that her parents believed were immodest, the police said.
Tag: Honor Killings
Taliban Decree an End to Forced Marriages in Afghanistan
The decree, attributed to the group’s religious leader, calls for more rights for women under Islamic law, but does not say whether women will regain easier access to education or jobs.
They Were the Nice, Older Couple Next Door. Then the First Body Turned Up.
An Iranian couple has confessed to murdering and dismembering their son, years after killing a daughter and her husband. They are not sorry.
A Daughter Is Beheaded, and Iran Asks if Women Have a Right to Safety
The so-called honor killing of a 14-year-old girl in Iran has shaken the country and forced an examination of its failure to protect women and children.
Brother of Qandeel Baloch, Pakistani Internet Star, Gets Life Term for Her Murder
The case had returned the spotlight to a rampant practice of “honor killings” in Pakistan. The assailants often go free because the victim’s family forgives the killer.
In Kabul’s Liberating Cafes, ‘Women Make the Culture Here, Not Men’
As peace talks threaten Afghan women’s hard-won freedoms, they find sanctuary in coffee shops and enjoy the free conversation, and mingling with men, permitted there.
She Wanted to See Her Boyfriend. She May Have Been Beheaded for It.
Days after a 16-year-old’s mutilated body was found in a small Indian town, the police arrested her father, who they believe arranged her killing.