14 -year -old HIRA AnWar lived in two contrasting worlds in New York. Outside her house, she was a typical American teenager, laughed with a friend, posted a video to Tactoku, and dreamed of an infinite future.
In the house, her reality was very different. Pakistani immigrants, who had settled in the United States more than 20 years ago, hoped that she would comply with her cultural and religious values that demanded humility from women. For them, HIRA’s bold and expressive online presence was a direct challenge.
The familiar tension in the western Asian immigrant households ended with a fatal violence this week. Police said that a few days after arriving in Pakistan, a few days after she was told that she was a vacation with her family, her father and uncle were shot deadly. The authorities called her death “honor murder.”
In a terrible confession in Quetta, the capital of the southwestern part of Barochestan, Hira’s father, Anwal Ur -Haku, said she was shame to her family by posting something she called an inappropriate video online. Ta.
Hira’s death is a part of Pakistan and his Dia Spora, part of the deeply permeated pattern of violence against women, and the right of rights is an ancient problem with a new dimension that is dangerous to the rise of social media. Was stated.
Pakistan’s Human Rights CommitteeFrom 490 to 2023 in 2023, a group of independent rights that recorded 588 honor killing in Pakistan, almost matched 590 reported in 2022, was recorded.
Women often refuse forced marriage, seek divorce and separation, have a relationship that is considered inappropriate by the family, or engage in other actions that are considered to violate conservative value. It becomes a target. In one case of last year, a girl was killed by a brother using a mobile phone. Another, young women were fatally poisoned by their parents for dating.
In some cases, a family from Pakistan in the western countries returned to Pakistan by pretending to be false. So they restricted freedom and forced them to marry them -in many cases, to secure a visa for men -or, in some cases, killed them.
In 2022, the two sisters of the two Pakistan, which holds the Spanish residency permission Tortured and killed The day after arriving in Punjab, Pakistani police said. According to the investigator, their husband, uncle, and brothers killed after their sisters forced marriage from forced marriage.
Other killings have occurred in the western part, and in some cases the perpetrators fled to Pakistan to avoid arrest.
In May, Pakistanal authorities have arrested a woman convicted with her husband in cooperation with Italian officials. Kill a teenage daughter。 Authorities said the killing in northern Italy had overcome the refusal of a forced marriage daughter in Pakistan.
Experts who are studying Diasupola in Southern Asia in the western countries say that tension between generations is spreading as young overseas generations are increasingly challenging their conventional values.
Kavita Mehra, Executive Director Saki for South Asian survivorsNew York -based non -profit organizations stated that in the United States, gender -based violence occurred in the South Asian community at a higher percentage. A survey reports that almost half of the US South Asians have experienced such violence at least once.
“This is not because our community is essentially violent,” Mella said.
According to a police officer Babar Baroque, the 14 -year -old Hira’s murder this week, her father initially told him that a gunfire was unknown while traveling to his uncle’s house. 。 With QUETTA.
However, after collecting evidence and recording a statement of Witnesses, the police became suspicious, working as a Uber driver in New York, and detained the father with the other two daughters. His father, Ulhaku and his brother -in -law, were arrested on Wednesday for murder.
In his confession, the police stated that Uruhak had opposed his daughter’s clothing, lifestyle, and social relationships.
Pakistan has introduced the law for many years, and some have been sentenced to death and suppresses the so -called honor.
In 2016, the parliament passed a law to close the legal loose holes that allow their families to allow perpetrators to perpetrate their family.
Nevertheless, gender -based violence will last for social acceptance and systematic prejudice in Pakistan’s legal execution agencies and justice.
Shagia Nizamani, a legal legal legal professional, states: “Even if the family does not pursue legal measures, the state is responsible for guaranteeing that justice will be realized.”