Award Winning BBC Documentary
An award winning BBC documentary 'Licence to Kill' covered Samia and other honour killing cases: and was winner of the RTS 2001 (Best TV journalism). This programme was first broadcast on Saturday 25 March 2000.
Licence to Kill is the follow-up to 1999's award-winning documentary, Murder in Purdah, on the killing of women in Pakistan.
While Murder in Purdah showed how casually women are killed in Pakistan, Licence to Kill shows how state institutions endorse such killings and allow the killers to escape without punishment.
The BBC programme notes: "The Pakistan Penal Code, amended in 1990 to embrace Islamic principles, has made it easier for those who kill women to get away with it".
Murder in Purdah won the Peabody award for journalism, the George Polk Award for television, the Johns Hopkins University Award and a New York TV medal. Also shown at Cannes Film Festival in May 2000.
Both films were selected for cinema screening at the Human Rights Watch Film Festival in London March 2000.
A 2 minute video clip from the film, telling Samia's story, is available on the BBC website
Read more about this topic: Samia Sarwar
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