Diyat

Declaration part of 'Qisas and Diyat' Ordinance 1990

PHC had rejected petition noting that petitioners spent over a decade in jail but failed to agree on ‘diyat’

Appeal filed in Abu Dhabi court to approve reconciliation, payment of blood money

Unlike the past, those who now kill women will not claim ‘honour’ as the main motive for the killing

Offenders routinely take advantage of legal lacunas

Senator Israrullah Zehri’s stance is that honour killings are time-honoured customs which must not be discontinued

Qisas, diyat provisions were re-promulgated by legislature 20 times, before being raised to Act of Parliament in 1997