Abstract
Honour killing being the widely prevalent social evil in Pakistan, this research article aimed to investigate the representation of honour killing in the newspaper articles. For the descriptive analysis, 101 articles of two leading media outlets were selected, Dawn and Express tribune, from the time period from 2019 to 2021. Purposive sampling was employed. The categories of analysis were Gender, Identity, Implementation of law, Relation of accused with victim, Methods/weapons used for killing, Reasons of killing. It is revealed that female victims were 105 and male were 36 respectively. 13-30 as the most affected age group, husband & father being the accusers in most cases, ‘in the name of honour’ as the most mentioned reason of honour killing followed by love marriages, guns as the most frequent used weapon for honour killing.

Dr. Rana Saba Sultan, Dr. Ambreen Fazal, Naseeb But. (2021) Representation of Honour Killing in the Newspapers of Pakistan: A Content Analysis, Kalachi, Volume 24, issue 2.
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