Monthly Archives: April 2012

The Honor Killing That Never Happened: A Cautionary Tale

By | 2012-04-15T07:51:12-04:00 April 15th, 2012|Op-Eds|

Like many others who were carefully selected, I, too, recently received a very shocking email from one Arsalan Akhtar (arsalan.akhtar21@gmail.com). He accused a rather distinguished Pakistani public figure of having honor killed his daughter. The email also claimed that the Pakistani media had covered this killing up at the request of very high government officials.