Author Muhammad Zia Ullah

ziajee90@hotmail.com

This power point presentation is submitted for the international conference on South Asian studies 26-27 July 2012, Goldi Sands Hotel, Negombo, Sri Lanka.

Girls and Women Face Abuses. Submission to the Males. Honour Lost, Violence and Murder of Women

and Girls. Statistics of Femicides in Recent Years.

What are the main excuses for upholding the brutal practice of honour killings in Pakistan?

What are the lagal and traditional explanation for the rampant of honour killings?

Case Study. Abductive Technique. Qualitative Method (Theory Testing). Secondary Data Documents.

Social Control of Masculinity . Control Over Female Behaviour. Male Power and Control Decreases Over

Females. Only Females Carry the Honour of Family by

Their Behaviour. Feeling of Shame. To Restore the Shame and Prestige, Female

must be Killed.

PatriarchyMale Dominance, Male Centered. Public Private DivisionTwo Spheres in Patriarchal Societies Sphere of family, Master of Territory, Public

Sphere does not interfere in Private sphere.

Trapped Between Two Patriarchal Controllers. Murder on Illicit Relations.. Femicide as the Punishment For Seeking

Divorce. Honour Lost on Rape. Murder on Disobedience. Murder Under the Pretext of Property. Murder on the Base of Ethnicity.

Patriarchal Mind-Set of Pakistani Society. Rumours and Branded Stories Trigger the

Female Murder. Division of Society, Where No Public Sector

Interfere Properly. Qisas and Diyat Help the Family Murderer. Notion of Sudden Provocation. Patriarchal Attitude of Government. Deficiency in laws and Judicial System.

Particular Role of Patriarchy. Public Sector Hesitate to Use Power on Male

behavior of Killings. Ethnicity, Self Choice for life Partner, Illicit

Relations are Main Causes. Disobedience and Branded Stories Create

Sympathy in the Minds of Community and Public Officials for the Killer.

Considering Femicides an old Tradition and Custom to Restore the Masculine Power and Prestige.

My name is Muhammad Zia Ullah, resident of Pakistan. I did my graduation in Law (LLB) from Punjab University Lahore, Pakistan. Then I moved to Sweden for further education. I got my first Master degree with the specialization in human rights from Malmo University Sweden. I also completed an other degree M.sc in Asian Studies from the Lunds University Sweden in 2011.