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According to the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, over 470 cases of honour killings were reported in Pakistan in 2021. But human rights defenders estimate that around 1,000 women are murdered in the name of honour every year. [3][4] An honour killing is the murder of a member of a family or social group by other members, due to the belief ...
Massacre, mass murder or spree killing – the killing of many people. Murder – the malicious and unlawful killing of a human by another human. Manslaughter – murder, but under legally mitigating circumstances. Meretricide - the act of killing a sex worker; typically female, but can apply to other genders. From latin merēre, meaning "to gain".
e. Diya (Arabic: دية; pl.: diyāt, Arabic: ديات) in Islamic law, is the financial compensation paid to the victim or heirs of a victim in the cases of murder, bodily harm or property damage by mistake. It is an alternative punishment to qisas (equal retaliation). In Arabic, the word means both blood money and ransom, and it is spelled ...
Criminal law. Culpable homicide is a categorisation of certain offences in various jurisdictions within the Commonwealth of Nations which involves the homicide (illegal killing of a person) either with or without an intention to kill depending upon how a particular jurisdiction has defined the offence.
e. An honor killing (American English), honour killing (Commonwealth English), or shame killing[1] is a traditional form of murder in which a person is killed by or at the behest of members of their family or their partner, due to culturally sanctioned beliefs that such homicides are necessary as retribution for the perceived dishonoring of the ...
t. e. Qisas or Qiṣāṣ (Arabic: قِصَاص, romanized: Qiṣāṣ, lit. 'accountability, following up after, pursuing or prosecuting') is an Islamic term interpreted to mean "retaliation in kind", [1][2] "eye for an eye", or retributive justice. Qisas and diyya are two of several forms of punishment in classical/traditional Islamic ...
Organised crime. Organised crime in Pakistan includes fraud, racketeering, drug trafficking, smuggling, money laundering, extortion, ransom, political violence, etc. Terrorist attacks became common during the 2000s, especially in North-West Frontier Province, the Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Balochistan, Karachi and Lahore.
This painting, The Third of May 1808 by Francisco Goya, depicts the summary execution of Spaniards by French forces after the Dos de Mayo Uprising in Madrid. An extrajudicial killing (also known as an extrajudicial execution or an extralegal killing) [1] is the deliberate killing of a person without the lawful authority granted by a judicial proceeding.