Pakistan: Honor Killings – Burned by the Fire

Tariq Ali writes about the evils of honor killing — and the sad fate of a young cousin, murdered by two brothers while other family members stood by and did nothing.

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Tariq Ali (London Review of Books)

… Traditionalists have always considered love to be something that brings shame on families: patriarchs should be the ones to decide who is to be married to whom, often for reasons to do with property. If you fall in love, the 18th-century Urdu poet Mir Hassan explained (more than once), you will be burned by its fire and perish….