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At least 675 women and girls murdered in Pakistan 

the first nine months of 2011 to "honor killings", today announced a non-governmental organization defending human rights.

The numbers indicate the size of the problem of violence against women accused of affecting the reputation of their families in very conservative Muslim society, or are like second class citizens and violence against them go unpunished. Although there has been some Progress in defending women's rights advocate in Pakistan to emphasize that the government should do much more to be given justice, especially against those guilty of murders of women, which rarely investigated seriously by the police who considers cases related to personal and family relationships. "Altogether 675 women and girls killed in the name of family money to Pakistan from January to September," he told AFP a member of the Commission of Pakistan Human Rights. Among them there were 71 girls under 18 years, he added, stating that the complete data for 2011 released in February. The committee gathered data for 791 honor killings in 2010, the trend is not declining this year, he added.About 450 women on those killed from January to September were accused were "prohibited relationships", while 129 had married without the permission of their families. A number of them were raped, sometimes in groups, before being killed. At least 19 killed by their siblings, 49 from their fathers and 169 of their husbands, according to the Committee. For Ali Dayan Hasan, director of the organization in Pakistan human rights Human Rights Watch, one of the main reasons for this situation is the inability of the state to enforce the law and the tendency to let the local warlords to regulate the issues of their communities.
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