Honor Killings of Women lead to Separate Graves

Jack Kemp

As Pamela Geller at "Atlas Shrugs" said when she posted her comments about this International Herald Tribune article, "Just when you thought the misogyny and gender apartheid under the sharia could not get any worse. There. are. no. words."

Now victims of dubious honor killings can't even receive visitors at their graveside.

Here's a quote:
http://tribune.com.pk/story/315712/honour-killings-in-sukkur-a-separate-graveyard-for-the-dishonourable-ones/

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.

While the custom of karo-kari prevails throughout Sindh, some clans as Shar Bozdar, Pitafi and Jakhrani are particularly notorious for killing people under the custom.

Shar Bozdar and Pitafi clans are concentrated mainly in Ghotki and Kashmore, while the Jakhrani tribe is spread in areas over Jacobabad and Kashmore.

In these tribes, the custom of killing in the name of honour flourishes to serve many other ulterior motives. According to dictates of people from the tribes and other smaller communities, men manipulate this atrocious custom to get rid of their wives and marry a lover, to get monetary benefit or share in property among other things.

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.