SHC sees ‘total anarchy’ if honour killings not stopped

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KARACHI: The Sindh High Court has expressed concern over the killing of innocent people in the name of so-called honour and ordered the state to stop this “uncivilised, barbaric and abominable practice” and deal with perpetrators sternly.

Terming honour killing a severe type of domestic violence, a single bench of the SHC said that such practice...