What is the price of love? Death?

Pakistani Woman Stoned to Death for Marrying the ‘Wrong’ Person.

Nearly 20 members of a Pakistan family attacked and killed Farzana Parveen, 25, in front of a court Tuesday. The family, who disapproved of the woman's marriage because it wasn't arranged, had filed an abduction case against her husband, and the couple was on their way to court to contest it. Parveen's father called her murder an 'honor killing.' Parveen's father surrendered after the incident and called the murder an "honour killing

"I killed my daughter as she had insulted all of our family by marrying a man without our consent, and I have no regret over it," Mujahid, the police investigator, quoted the father as saying.

Hundreds of women are killed every year in Muslim-majority Pakistan in so-called "honor killings" carried out by husbands or relatives as a punishment for alleged adultery or other illicit sexual behavior.

So-called “honor killings” are illegal in Pakistan but due to a loophole in the statute many perpetrators get off scot-free. The government, meanwhile, does not keep a national database of statistics shedding light on how often and with what frequency these acts of cruelty are carried out. This is why the number of women -- and men -- believed to have died at the hands of their own relatives via stoning in Pakistan is probably much higher than commonly reported. The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, a private organization, said in a report last month that some 869 women were murdered in so-called honor killings in 2013.