Pakistan: Separate graveyards for 'Honor Killing' Victims, Buried without Last Rites, Men Guard Graves so Nobody can Visit Them

Just when you thought the misogyny and gender apartheid under the sharia could not get any worse.

There. are. no. words.

In Sukkur, a separate graveyard for the ‘dishonourable’ ones Tribune Express/International Herald Tribune  By Sarfaraz Memon January 3, 2012

People at the ‘karan jo qabrustan’ are buried without last rites and men guard the graves so nobody can visit them. DESIGN: SHEHREZAD MAHER

SUKKUR: 

For some of the deceased in Sindh, there are no prayers for a peaceful afterlife and no on comes to put flowers on their graves. Those slain for honour are not spared even in death.

There is a separate graveyard for those killed under the pretext of karo-kari (honour killing) called ‘karan jo qabrustan’ (graveyard for the dishonoured) near Daharki. At this graveyard, built by the Shar clan, people are buried without last rites and men guard the graves so nobody can visit them and offer Fateha. Even in death, the punishment continues.

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According to a Sindh-based, women’s rights NGO, Samaj Foundation, the number of women killed in Sindh was 284 in 2009, while in 2010 it fell to 266. The foundation has statistics until June 30 this year, where a total of 155 cases were recorded.

However, according to the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, 675 women and girls were murdered during the first nine months of the year for allegedly defaming their family’s honour.

Kiran Daudpoto, director of Samaj Foundation, has too many unfortunate stories to share.  In June 2011, Arzana, a young widow, was killed and buried in her courtyard by her father-in-law and brother-in -law who wanted to sell her to an elderly man.

In another incident four years ago, 82-year-old Mai Bhagul was branded kari by her son who had used up her savings for Hajj instead of making arrangements for the pilgrimage. Such stories are many, some more brutal than the rest.

There are various explanations as to how this custom found its way in Sindh. Accounts of historians relate it to the pre-Islamic era.

They say the custom reached the sub-continent in the 17th century when some Arab descendants, who used to bury their daughters alive, came to settle in Balochistan. Killing young and old women in the name of honour was common practice for them. Later, when the British tried to prohibit the custom by announcing the death penalty for the perpetrators, people started throwing women in wells and claiming they were suicide cases. When the authorities discovered that this tactic was being used, poisonous snakes used to kill women instead.

Human rights activist Samar Minallah says the Sardars, elected representatives and influential people are to blame for the practice. “These people can stop such incidents as the decision of declaring people Kari or to barter girls and equal scores rests in the Jirga. But they don’t stand for justice so their voters don’t get angry.”

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Study claims men are willing to sell or kill their wives

A pilot study on honour killings by Maliha Zia Lari, an advocate, has revealed that some men are willing to sell off their wives, or kill them in order to get rid of them.

According to the advocate, the 2004 criminal law (amendment) has not had the desired impact. She said that since its implementation, honour killings had actually increased.

Lari carried out a study titled, ‘Honour killings in Pakistan and the compliance of law’ in collaboration with the Aurat Foundation’s legislative watch programme for women empowerment.

She said that the research was conducted in 2010 to find out how the criminal law amendment was being implemented and included police, court and community evaluations. The study was conducted in Ghotki, Gujrat, Naseerabad and Nowshera.

“The highest number of cases were reported from Ghotki,” she said. “The least number of cases were reported from Nowshera. However, most of the incidents in Nowshera are not reported.” She added that the biggest limitation to their study was the lack of consolidated data available.

While studying the FIRs, she said that they were gender insensitive as the police preferred to report such incidents as murder instead of honour killings.

She explained the motive behind the authorities reporting karo kari as murder, and said that the reasons cited for murder were usually considered a negative reference to the woman’s character. Elaborating on her point, she said that these usually included details such as the woman leaving her husband or marrying without her family’s consent. She added that nearly 1,636 honour killings were reported in 2011.

Comments

[InfidelForLife]

What else can be expected from savages, but savagery?

[Isabellathecrusader]

Hey you skeezy Muslim men, yeah you guys who are so insecure and afraid of women that you must continue to dishonor them in death. Thanks for pointing this out. Now that I am aware of it I will put these women on my prayer list and send them spiritual bouquets that you will never be able to touch and which will bring them great comfort from the awful lives they lived with you. May God bless them and may they rest in peace.

[Wotan]

To quote the murderous father of the honour killing trial in Kingston, Ontario: "may the devil shit on their graves".

This trial resumes on January 9 and must global have media attention. 3 teenaged sisters and their "auntie" (who in fact, was their polygamous father's first wife) murdered by their own family.

[Mzungu]

I can say with confidence that the hate exhibited by Muslim men, if these testimonies are true and I believe they are, to be without equal in all of human history. The Lord's vengeance upon them in the afterlife will be without a doubt unequaled in all eternity.
I do not even have enough love within me to share the gospel with them but perhaps someone else does.

[KeithMahone (aka Charles Martel)]

So-called honor killings are just another convenient exemption from basic human decency, a provision of justified selfishness that Islam affords ist male followers in their homo-erotic, male chauvinist death cult.

If women could successfully demand fair treatment according to a humane standard Islam would simply die out in one generation. But not to fear, Mohamed - the cruelty fetish and extreme self-serving rationalization you codified in your fake religion will help preserve it for untold centuries.

There is no God but Yaweh and Mohamed is not his messenger. Praying to the devil five times a day won't help you get to heaven. Allah is Mohamed's alter ego. Mohamed is Satan looking in the mirror and seeing a god.

[jonny]

lol thank christ these guys don't have nukes, amirite?