The prime minister of Pakistan Mr. Gillani said in an interview with media that it was utterly disappointing that five women had been buried alive in the name of honour in Balochistan.

Police in Pakistan have exhumed the bodies of two women allegedly buried alive in western Balochistan province. They have also arrested six people, including some relatives of the women. Reports from the area say the women were killed in July because they wanted to marry men of their own choice, against the wishes of tribal elders. Three other women were also reported killed but police have not found their bodies. Human rights groups have expressed outrage at the killings.

The spine-chilling details of the cold-blooded murder of five women in the province of Balochistan, who were actually buried alive makes one shiver in horour. The ‘sin’ committed by three of them  was that they wanted to marry the men of their choice. The two women, the girls’ elders, paid the price for protesting against the murders.

The authorities as well as the civil society will have to take steps to end these inhuman practices which are also condemned by our relegion Islam. Wasn’t our beloved Prophet Muhammad (Peace Be Upon Him)  told Arabs to stop burying their female children. Aren’t we not still living in the same dark ages when women were treated like a commodity?

I beleive we all need to condemn these brutal killings and make all the efforts in our hands so that authorities prosecute and punish the culprits to maximum.

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I would not like to get involved in discussions as if it was a case of honor killing or domestic violance and it has nothing to do with religion. I beleive that being a Muslim, it is my responssiblity to stand up and try my best in all my capacity to minimize such tragic incidnets.  It is not my ‘divine duty’ as Muslim to punish others, Muslims or non-Muslims, for any act which is in conflict with my beliefs. 

Muslim parents have to make extra efforts to understand Islam and culture in Western hemishpere so as to provide better guidence to their children in all the challenges faced by them in day to day life.  Parents should involve actively in upbringing of their children and not just focus on earning money.  All the Muslim organizations and Massajids (mosques) should try to set up some help line where teens should be able to get assistance in any problems. Furthermore, we need to condemn any such killing on all levels.

I would suggest salaamsblog for some thought provoking reading about the death of these two Muslim girls in texas.

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There is nothing to defend such a brutal killing of human being in Islam.  I beleive there is nothing in Quran and Prophet Muhammad’s entire life which will remotely suggest such act as legitimate or ‘allowed’.  However, looking at the discussion boards and other sources, majority of the comments have suggested that Islam is the cause and this isolated incident is blown way out of proportionality.  People who don’t even know a single muslim in their own lives have labeled all the muslims brutal, and savages. However, if they simply ask a question by themselves, how many such incidents occured during the last one month where a muslim was involved in killing and how many killers were non-muslims?  Does that kind of behavour not extermism as well? Why is it different from any other incidents of domestic voilance across the country?

I my opinion, the killing of any human being regardless of the religion is a highly condemnable act and should not be tolerated in any case. The culprit should be punished with maximum sentence and so should Parvez should also be. 

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