Israr Ullah Khan Zehri[1] (Urdu: مير اسراراللہ زہری; born December 15, 1965[1]) is a Pakistani politician.
[2] Israr ullah Khan Zehri became a Senator in March 2006.
[citation needed] Zehri is a tribal leader and attracted condemnation both inside and outside Pakistan for openly supporting the traditional tribal practice of 'honor killing'.
In August 2008, the Asian Human Rights Commission reported that five women (including three teenagers) in a remote village in Balochistan had been beaten, shot and buried alive in a ditch for the 'crime' of having wished to choose their own husbands.
[3] After human rights activists brought the case to national and international attention, Zehri defended the killings in Parliament and asked his fellow legislators not to make a fuss about the incident.