Despite hard work on the part of numerous legislators and human rights activists, a steady number of honor killing cases continue to be reported. The dawn reported that previously the killings were mostly isolated to northern Sindh, southern Punjab and some parts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan, but now the capital police are registering cases regularly especially in its rural areas. But even then the police, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and other concerned authorities believe that the majority of cases remain unreported. Prominent women’s right activists Farazana Bari said that the actual figure of honor killings was not available with anyone neither was there any authority at the national or provincial level to monitor the act and collect the details. “NGOs and other organizations working for women’s rights are struggling to make ‘honor killing’ a non-compoundable offence by considering the crime against the state not against the individual but it has been all in vain,” Bari said.
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