yelda hakeem, bbc news, karachi. >> and yelda is with me now.hing your report, you just get a sense from the stories those women tell, this is just tip of the iceberg what you experienced. >> absolutely, lucy. as you were saying, we hear about these cases almost every day. just yesterday we heard about this woman who was murdered, and her family. and 30 years after the event. the sense i got from being in pakistan, and speaking to the women in the shelter and the prison, speaking to human rights activists and lawyers, is that women in pakistan are treated as the property first of their families and those families decide who they marry. so they don't have the right to choose the man that they want to marry. to choose the basic human rights of just falling in love. and then once they are married off, they become the property of their husbands. so they essentially are owned their entire life. and if they do speak out, and if they do want to live their own lives, they end up either imprisoned or brutally murdered, suffer gender-based violence or end