A man allegedly murdered his wife for the so -called honor near Superperity in Karachi on Thursday, police said.
According to a statement issued by the site, the police in the site industrial area, Pari, 40, was allegedly strangled by her husband Ghulam Ali Bugti in her home in Shahbaz Goth, Bypass of the North.
Police said the incident seemed to be the result of “killing honor”, adding that the suspect had managed to escape the scene.
The body was transferred to the Abbasi Shaheed hospital for legal formalities.
Incidents of violence against women are common throughout the country. In December 2023, the Asian Development Bank reported in a study that domestic violence was emerging as a silent pandemic in Pakistan, raising a serious challenge for society and the State.
Earlier this week, his fiance, a police officer in service, in Qambar-Shahdokot, after marrying him, a senior official in service.
A pregnant woman was killed by her husband last week for a domestic dispute, police said Sunday.
In March, a woman looking for Khula was supposedly killed by her husband outside the Malir Court facilities. In a separate incident, a woman was stabbed and killed, supposedly by her ex -husband, inside a local hotel in the nursery area.
According to a report of ‘Gender Violence (GBV) 2024’ published by the Sustainable Social Development Organization, the rates of condemnation of gender violence in Pakistan were extremely low.
In Punjab, cases of domestic violence were located in 1,167, with only three convictions, while Khyber Pakthunkhwa totaled 446 cases of domestic violence, but no convictions were recorded.
Sindh registered 375 cases for domestic violence, but justice was not delivered in terms of convictions.
Baluchistan had the greatest count of convictions between all provinces for the category, with 25 sentences of 160 cases.
