{"id":28196,"date":"2017-11-01T15:34:18","date_gmt":"2017-11-01T10:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=28196"},"modified":"2017-11-01T15:34:18","modified_gmt":"2017-11-01T10:34:18","slug":"huge-spike-in-honor-killing-cases-man-kills-sister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=28196","title":{"rendered":"Huge spike in honor killing cases: Man kills sister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>LAHORE Nov 01(TNS):<\/strong> A man killed his sister allegedly in the name of &#8216;honour&#8217; in Lahore&#8217;s Satto Katla area on Wednesday, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The man opened fire on his sister after having an argument in which he accused her of having an &#8220;immoral character\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Police took the girl&#8217;s body into custody after residents of the area reported the incident. They also collected evidence from the site of the murder and recorded statements of eyewitnesses.<\/p>\n<p>According to the police, the suspect fled the scene after killing his sister.<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of women and some men are murdered every year in the country, often by their own relatives, for going against their families&#8217; wishes in matters of love and marriage.<\/p>\n<p>According to Saima Munir, who works for the Aurat Foundation, there has been a 70 per cent increase in honour killings in the past year.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE Nov 01(TNS): A man killed his sister allegedly in the name of &#8216;honour&#8217; in Lahore&#8217;s Satto Katla area on Wednesday, police said. The man opened fire on his sister after having an argument in which he accused her of having an &#8220;immoral character\u201d. Police took the girl&#8217;s body into custody after residents of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28197,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,23],"tags":[157,589],"class_list":["post-28196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lahore","category-national","tag-lahore","tag-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28196"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28198,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28196\/revisions\/28198"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}