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on a radio show and discusses honor killings and other
issues regularly with his audience.
Bukhari also works with victims
of acid attacks and bride burnings, other extreme forms
of violence against women in Pakistan. Says Bukhari
in a piece for the BBC on bride burnings, ""Every
second Pakistani woman is the victim of a direct or
indirect form of mental or physical violence, leading
to heinous crimes against them including rape, murder,
chopping of limbs or being burned alive." Bukhari
says that her organization has dealt with more than
1500 cases of acid burning between 1994-1999, and while
numbers are unavailable for the amount of bride burnings,
those figures are increasing as well.
”World Diary: Honor Killings”
also presented a small segment with Zareer Khuhro, a
zamindar's son who represents the new generation of
educated, enlightened Pakistanis who will hopefully
set an example to the men of this country of how to
treat women as equal partners, not chattel to be destroyed
at their whims. Zareer rightly said that what the media
terms as "honor killings" are usually disputes
over inheritance and money disguised as crimes of passion
because of a legal loophole that protects the killers
of women suspected of adultery.
But the real work of abolishing
honor killings has to start with the women of Pakistan
themselves. Zahida Parveen was in fact one of the few
successful victims of this crime to have successfully
prosecuted her attacker – her husband. And yet
the problem goes deeper than just the victim and the
attacker. According to Hillary Mayell, a writer for
National
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