The Response: The State: The Community and governing leadership need to hold counsel and raise awareness by fostering debates around sensitive topics. "I am asking questions at the moment in Government because I am not convinced that we have got the safeguarding of young women in this country right. We need far stronger checks and balances" says Naz Shah, an MP from Bradford (The Independent, 2016). "More difficult to cover up and hide in Britain than they might be in, say, rural Pakistan. However, investigations into honour-based crime is something of a grey area in the UK. Last week the Huffington Postput in Freedom of Information requests to the country's 43 police forces asking for the numbers of honour-based violence reports they had received from 2011-2016. In some areas, said the Huffington Post, just three per cent of reports resulted in charges" (The independent, 2016). Although there are forced marriage units that travel to rural Pakistan and other regions to help cases, there is not enough aid. A legislature change in terms of jurisdiction in the UK may push boundaries and shine the light on the significance on honour based victims and the crimes itself. Shafilea Ahmed and Banaz Mahmod's cases both made huge headlines all over the country yet still failed to educate new and real change in the statutory sector. "Banaz Mahmod, 20, let down by officers in the Metropolitan and West Midlands forces who in the weeks and months before she died failed to take threats against her seriously, even though she feared for her life and supplied them with a list of five people she suspected would harm her" (Britten, 2008). Theresa May has gone on to confusing the narrative by describing honour crimes as terrorist attacks. "Extremism does take many forms. That's why in the government's counter- extremism strategy we're looking very widely across the breadths of issues of extremism, including tackling the root causes of some practices within communities, such as the so- called 'honour'-based violence. I absolutely agree there is absolutely no honour in so-called 'honour' based violence." (Mcveigh, 2016). This is seen as a huge risk and has implications for many victims who will be terrified to death to come out with their story if they are being shunned and marginalised as terrorists. Recently, unanimously in February 2016, Pakistan has passed a law on honour killings. This has come to light after an Oscar winning documentary 'A Girl in the River' has highlighted the issue. "Pakistan enacted the Anti-Honour Killing Laws (Criminal Amendment Bill) 2015 on 6 October 2016 in a joint sitting of the two houses of Parliament, which closes this loop- hole, marking an important shift towards the acknowledgement of 'honour-based' killing as the serious crime it is" (Basama, 2016). The motion of the bill has passed after years of killers getting out of the loophole and avoiding punishment. The bill has been passed to call a spade a spade, and illustrate that this is indeed an offence and therefore