In Pakistan this year, 461 women have been killed in so-called honor killings. In these murders, women are slaughtered for having sex outside marriage, dating, talking to men, being raped or cooking poorly. And Pakistan is responsible for their deaths. In 1996, Pakistan ratified the U.N. Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW). Through that ratification, Pakistan assumed an obligation to protect women from gender-based violence. As part of that obligation, the government is supposed to ensure that female victims have access to an effective remedy rights violation.

But what has Pakistan done to eliminate this violence against women. Nothing. In fact, the numbers for this year are up nearly 100 from 2001. Yet the U.S. is supposed to believe that Pakistan is being honest when it says it’s clamping down on terrorism? How can we believe Pakistan is concerned about global terrorism when its own women are being terrorized every day?

That rhetoric rings as empty as the words of Javed Iqbal Cheema, Pakistan Interior Ministry, when he said, “The government has recently made some changes in the laws to give more protection to the women.” And they have no idea where Osama is either.