1. Author
Muhammad Zia Ullah
ziajee90@hotmail.com
This power point presentation is submitted for the international conference on
South Asian studies 26-27 July 2012, Goldi Sands Hotel, Negombo, Sri Lanka.

2.  Girls and Women Face Abuses.
 Submission to the Males.
 Honour Lost, Violence and Murder of Women
and Girls.
 Statistics of Femicides in Recent Years.

3.  What are the main excuses for upholding the
brutal practice of honour killings in Pakistan?
 What are the lagal and traditional explanation
for the rampant of honour killings?

4.  Case Study.
 Abductive Technique.
 Qualitative Method (Theory Testing).
 Secondary Data
 Documents.

5.  Social Control of Masculinity .
 Control Over Female Behaviour.
 Male Power and Control Decreases Over
Females.
 Only Females Carry the Honour of Family by
Their Behaviour.
 Feeling of Shame.
 To Restore the Shame and Prestige, Female
must be Killed.

6.  Patriarchy
Male Dominance, Male Centered.
Public Private Division
Two Spheres in Patriarchal Societies
Sphere of family, Master of Territory, Public
Sphere does not interfere in Private sphere.

7.  Trapped Between Two Patriarchal Controllers.
 Murder on Illicit Relations..
 Femicide as the Punishment For Seeking
Divorce.
 Honour Lost on Rape.
 Murder on Disobedience.
 Murder Under the Pretext of Property.
 Murder on the Base of Ethnicity.

8.  Patriarchal Mind-Set of Pakistani Society.
 Rumours and Branded Stories Trigger the
Female Murder.
 Division of Society, Where No Public Sector
Interfere Properly.
 Qisas and Diyat Help the Family Murderer.
 Notion of Sudden Provocation.
 Patriarchal Attitude of Government.
 Deficiency in laws and Judicial System.

9.  Particular Role of Patriarchy.
 Public Sector Hesitate to Use Power on Male
behavior of Killings.
 Ethnicity, Self Choice for life Partner, Illicit
Relations are Main Causes.
 Disobedience and Branded Stories Create
Sympathy in the Minds of Community and
Public Officials for the Killer.
 Considering Femicides an old Tradition and
Custom to Restore the Masculine Power and
Prestige.

10.  My name is Muhammad Zia Ullah, resident of
Pakistan. I did my graduation in Law (LLB) from
Punjab University Lahore, Pakistan. Then I moved to
Sweden for further education. I got my first Master
degree with the specialization in human rights from
Malmo University Sweden. I also completed an other
degree M.sc in Asian Studies from the Lunds
University Sweden in 2011.