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According to US State Department's Country Report on Human Rights Practices in 2012 there were 2,341 honor killings in Pakistan between 2008 and 2011 and less than 2% of all honor killings were reported.
Pakistan, January 5, 2014
Man in Pakistani Punjab attacks step-daughters with acid
Original source
Lahore: A man in Pakistan's Punjab province attacked his two young step-daughters with acid for refusing to marry men chosen by him, police said today.
Muhammad Aslam, a mason from Pattoki village, located 70 km from provincial capital Lahore, threw acid on his step-daughters Malaika, 19, and Javeria, 23, while they were asleep last night.
Both victims were brought to Jinnah Hospital in Lahore, where doctors described their condition as critical.
Police said Aslam often quarrelled with his step-daughters on the issue of their marriage. "He wanted to marry them with men of his choice," police official Bashir Ahmed said.
Aslam had allegedly accepted money from a man in his neighbourhood after promising to marry one of the step-daughters to him.
"When both girls refused the proposal, Aslam threw acid on them to teach them a lesson," Ahmed said.
A case was registered against Aslam and police are conducting raids to arrest him.
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