honour killing
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Pakistani Centrists, Not Muslim Extremists
X.T.M sets a moderation standard: Pakistani commenters on the site are centrists, not extremists, and illiberal arguments stay up so long as they stop short of incitement. A Pakistani commenter…
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Honour and Acid: The Great Indus Split
X.T.M tests the claim that honour killing is Pakistan’s inheritance from Indus culture and acid attacks India’s. The data are messy and undercounted, but the line broadly holds. Both practices…
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Why is Pakistani Culture obsessed with Policing Female Virginity?
X.T.M reflects on an overheard story of a Pakistani-origin daughter in Europe and the murders of Sana Cheema and Qandeel Baloch. The post argues that policing a daughter’s body remains…
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💔Sana Yusuf Did Not Have to Die
After the murder of TikTok creator Sana Yusuf in Karachi, X.T.M argues that violence against women in Pakistan is an outcome of a society built on honour and male entitlement,…
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Culture can be more powerful than biology
Sharing an interview with the author of a memoir on honour in Pakistan, the geneticist author argues honour killing shows that culture and kinship incentives can override biology, since fathers…
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An Honor-able Society
Reproduces Tribune and Telegraph reports on a Lahore mother who police say burned her daughter alive for marrying by choice, with other recent cases, a government inquiry and the Human…
