With a law change imminent,Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy’s film approximately an attempted honour killing in Pakistan creates a perfect opportunity to stop impunity for relatives who murder women seen as a source of family dishonour Saba was 18 when she eloped to marry a young man she loved. When her father called her domestic – supposedly to reconcile – he and her uncle beat her, shot her in the head, or effect her in a bag and threw her in a river in Pakistan. They said she had brought dishonour on her family and that they had done the “right thing”.
Amazingly,Saba survived and was able to get abet. However, while her father and uncle were arrested, or authorities had to drop the charges because of a loophole in Pakistan’s law that allows perpetrators to go free if the victim – or the victim’s family – “forgives” them.
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Source: theguardian.com