Honour killing cases increasing in country: FAFEN

The number of honour killing cases is on the rise as another 14 FIRs were filed in February than the month before, said FAFEN report.
Thirty one such cases were registered in 18 districts in January while the number went up to 45 in 19 districts in the reporting month says a Free and Fair Election (FAFEN) report released on Saturday.
Jacobabad District with six and Kashmore and Shikarpur with five cases each reported the most honour killings.
FAFEN governance monitors visited offices of district police officers (DPOs) in 95 districts to collect data on the number of FIRs filed during February 2013.
Of the 804 FIRs filed for crimes committed against women, 40 percent were of forced marriage, rape (19 percent), attack on modesty (19 percent), offences relating to marriage (15 percent) and insult to modesty (2 percent). Cases of offences relating to marriage registered an increase of 63 percent in February as compared to the month before. The other crimes, however, registered decrease.
As many as 36,358 FIRs were filed during February; 10 percent less than those filed last month (40,449).
The most cases were of crimes pertaining to property, which comprised 21percent of the total FIRs.
Of the 7,480 cases of property crimes, the most were of theft (43 percent) while robbery and dacoity (18 percent) followed.
Seventeen percent were cases of motor vehicle lifting and 10 percent of motor vehicle snatching. Though 37 FIRs of criminal misappropriation of property made only 0.5 percent of the total crimes pertaining to property, it was a high increase from four cases last month.
Of the 3,213 physical harm cases, hurt was the most widely reported (41 percent). Twenty six percent FIRs were of attempted murder and 25 percent murder.
Cases of qatl-e-khata followed with 4 percent cases, illegal confinement 2percent, qatli-bis-sabab 2 percent and terrorism related incidents 1 percent.
Fifty five percent of the total 2,507 threat and fraud cases were of counterfeiting currency followed by cheating (18percent) and criminal breach of trust (16percent).
Two percent were cases of fraudulent deeds and dispossession of property. Forty-four such cases were reported in February compared to only five the month before.
Eight out of ten districts reporting the most crimes were in Punjab. High crime reportage in Punjab does not necessarily mean a high crime rate.
It can also be an indication of high reportage, better confidence level between the police and the people and lack of parallel judicial systems. Lahore reported 13percent of the total cases, Faisalabad 7percent and Peshawar 4 percent.