Pakistan 'honour killing'

The BBC has an article about Paki 'honor':

A Pakistani court has given the death sentence to four people for bludgeoning to death a pregnant relative who had married without their consent. Farzana Parveen, thirty, was beaten with bricks and sticks in May of 2014 outside Lahore's high court. Police deny charges they stood by as it happened.
Parveen's father, brother, cousin, and former fiancé were all found guilty of murder. Another brother got ten years in jail.
The case sparked global outrage. Parveen had been at the high court to defend her husband in a case brought against him by her relatives. They accused Muhammad Iqbal (photo) of abducting her. Parveen had already testified to police that she had married of her own free will. According to the police, a scuffle took place between about twenty members of Parveen's family and ten to fifteen of Iqbal's, during which she was struck with a brick three times and fatally wounded. He managed to escape.
Police say that Parveen was dead by the time officers were able to intervene. Court officials say the defendants will have the right to appeal in Lahore's high court.
The BBC's Shaimaa Khalil in Islamabad says that Parveen's death by stoning in broad daylight outside a court is shocking even by the standards of Pakistan, where so-called honor killings are common. She says death sentences for family members in such cases are unusual, but many are saying there is a chance Parveen's relatives could walk free or have their sentences reduced on appeal. 

Honor killings• In 2013, 869 women murdered in so-called "honor killings"
• Campaigners say the real number is likely to be much higher.
• Of these, 359 were so called Karo Kari cases, whereby family members consider themselves authorized to kill offending relatives to restore honor.
• Rights groups say conviction rate in cases of sexual and other violence against women is "critically low". 

There are hundreds of so-called "honor killings" in Pakistan each year.
This case prompted particular outrage, with Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif describing it as "totally unacceptable".
After she was killed, it emerged that Iqbal had killed his first wife six years earlier in order to marry Parveen.
Iqbal's son by his first marriage, Aurangzeb, told the BBC in May of 2014 that relatives had persuaded him to forgive his father, enabling his release from prison under Pakistani law.
Correspondents say arranged marriages are the norm in Pakistan, and to marry against the wishes of the family is unthinkable in many deeply conservative communities.

Rico says there's a distinct lack of what he would term 'civilization' here...