Within the Anwarak space of Daghari, Balochistan—simply 30 kilometers from Quetta—a horrific occasion was displayed within the final week of June 2025. A younger couple who had married and fled their hometown a few 12 months and a half earlier had been introduced again with a false promise: that their households would settle for them once more.
However this reconciliation was a entice. As soon as dwelling, they had been dragged earlier than the Sardar—the tribal chief of Daghari—who dominated they should be killed to “restore the household’s misplaced honor.”
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An investigation by an area journalist from Balochistan revealed that such incidents aren’t remoted. He acknowledged, “No, this isn’t the primary incident. These killings occur commonly in areas like Naseebabad, Balochistan. If I’m trustworthy, not even per week or ten days move with out somebody being killed on such allegations. There are a lot of such instances.”
The brutal aftermath was caught on video, which went viral. Solely then did the federal government act, arresting 11 folks, together with the tribal chief.
A postmortem confirmed the severity of the violence: the girl was shot seven occasions, whereas the person was shot 9 occasions.
Though in 2016, Pakistan handed a regulation to make honor killings “non-compoundable”—which means households may not legally forgive the killer. On paper, it was progress. In actuality? The regulation is bypassed by tribal techniques, native police complicity, and cultural silence.
Nevertheless, in these tribal zones, customary regulation trumps constitutional regulation. “Justice” is distributed by sardars and jirgas, not courts. And ladies’s lives are handled like household property—expendable, disposable.
The Larger Image: 5 Years of Honor-Based mostly Violence
In line with information from the Human Rights Fee of Pakistan (HRCP) and different sources:
- 2020: Roughly 430 reported instances (363 girls, 148 males)
- 2021: About 478 instances, with 42 reported in Balochistan alone
- 2022: 520 instances (323 girls, 197 males)
- 2023: 490 instances nationally; by mid-year, 145 girls had been recorded, extrapolated to round 430 girls for the complete 12 months
- 2024: 346 honor-related murders reported between January and November, nearly all of girls
In whole, round 2,264 identified instances had been reported throughout these 5 years—most of them involving girls.
Nevertheless, these numbers characterize solely reported instances. Underreporting is huge, and plenty of NGOs estimate that between 5000 to 10,000 girls are killed yearly in Pakistan alone in honor-related crimes.
If Pakistan fails to attract a line after Anwarak, extra Innocents shall be lured dwelling to die, extra tribes will play god, and extra girls will vanish beneath unmarked soil—with out even a reputation on the report.
