***For generations now in Pakistan, they’ve called it “honour” killing, carried out in the name of a family’s reputation. In the vast majority of cases, the “honour” killer is a man and the victim is a woman. The next day Rajhu grilled his younger brother, beating him until he confessed that Tasleem had married and he had been a witness. “I just shot her dead.”***The Rajhu family lives in a dirt-poor neighbourhood on the northern edge of Lahore where water buffalo compete with cars for space on mud-clogged roads. He did the right thing.”After his son killed Tasleem, the elder Rajhu went to the police and filed a complaint.

Source: National Post October 03, 2016 15:56 UTC