(AP)Her death on June 8 was the latest in a series of increasingly gruesome “honour” killings in Pakistan, which has one of the highest rates of such killings in the world. A few days later, Zeenat’s mother and uncle came, begging her to come home, just for a few days. The council in June decreed that honour killings are un-Islamic. Last year, 1,096 women and 88 men were killed in “honour” crimes in Pakistan, according to the independent Human Rights Commission of Pakistan. “When I think about it I get scared.”In the home he briefly shared with Zeenat, Khan showed a poem she had written on a tissue paper.

Source: Hindustan Times July 04, 2016 11:15 UTC