Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has demanded that officials in Punjab take “immediate action” to address the issue of so-called “honour killings”, such as the stoning to death of a pregnant woman in Lahore on Tuesday outside the high court of Lahore.
Farzana Parveen was three months pregnant when she and her husband were attacked with sticks and pelted with stones by her own family over a disagreement over who she should marry.
Sahrif has ordered that province officials submit a report on the incident, which he described as “totally unacceptable”, by Thursday, according to the BBC.
The stoning highlighted the plight of many women in Pakistan, with hundreds of similar killings reported each year.
Farzana was stoned to death in broad daylight on a public street in front of an official building, and yet no-one intervened, not even police officers that witnessed the entire event unfold.
