Pakistan truly is the world’s biggest turd and one that no matter how hard one may try, is one that refuses to flush. It’s a complete hellhole for just about everyone, women, children, religious minorities and even those Muslims who are considered as heterodox by other Muslims.

Women in particular are treated as having a value somewhat less than farm livestock is valued. The number of ‘honour’ killings, where women, mostly, are killed in order to avenge a slight or restore a family’s ‘honour’ in this backward and retarded nation, has reached epidemic levels.

In one region of Pakistan alone, Sindh, there are currently over 70 cases of ‘honour’ killing that are either being investigated or have been reported. The ASI news agency (h/t ROP) published a story on the 30^th September, has said that approximately 70 lives have been lost due to this cultural phenomena.

These murders are, according to ASI, mostly occurring in rural areas and because they are tied up with Islamic tribal politics, are difficult to investigate due to all those who may have knowledge of the crime clamming up due to tribal loyalties. This is especially the case when both the victim and the assailant come from the same tribe or extended familial group. Nobody will speak up about these murders which means that prosecutions, even when pushed by the central government of Pakistan, are difficult if not impossible to bring.

It would not surprise me one bit to find that the sort of problems with ‘honour’ killing that are occurring in Sindh are also happening elsewhere in Pakistan. This is because the sort of culture that Islam creates where women are seen as second or third class citizens is not just confined to Sindh, but is found across the country. A nation that follows an ideology that sees women as less than fully human is unlikely in my view to be troubled only in one geographical area by these sort of murders.

For there to be seventy deaths caused by ‘honour’ killings in just one region is absolutely astonishing. One would expect, knowing the bestial cultures that Islam creates, that these murders would be an issue but seventy deaths, at least, is much higher than many would have expected there to be.

Pakistan could have built a nation that nurtured its people, one that broke down these tribes and did away with their injustices. But they did not. Instead, those who founded and ruled Pakistan since independence from Britain chose Islam to be the guiding force within the country. Since independence Islamically run Pakistan has lurched from crisis to crisis, from disaster to disaster and from war to war. I don’t believe that Pakistan will every properly develop until Islam is removed from its position of influence but this is not something that I foresee happening anytime soon. Pakistan has a lot further to fall into the Islamic mire before change could occur.