Under pressure to do something about honor killings, police and prosecutors have started to use the law as a way around the forgiveness loophole. Her macabre death on June 8 in the eastern city of Lahore was the latest in a series of increasingly gruesome "honor killings" in Pakistan, a country with one of the highest rates of such killings in the world. Still, outrage over recent honor killings and other violence against women has fueled a bold outcry against the establishment. The council in June decreed that honor killings are un-Islamic. Some human rights and women's rights activists believe honor killings have been inching up and showing greater brutality as the older generation tries to dig in against creeping change.

Source: Fox News July 04, 2016 06:00 UTC