PATIALA: The Punjabis here have totally changed on cultural front, but those in North America still seem to be living in the past. This specific part of the community is still not ready to give freedom to the daughters. After the murder of an 11th standard Muslim schoolgirl Aksa Pravez (16) by her father in Toronto, the role of the Asian parents is under scanner in North America.

LONDON: British Indian women are as prone to the secretive, outlawed practice of female foeticide as their counterparts in the mother country and they generally travel to India to do the dastardly deed.

The alarming revelation by the BBC's Asian Network radio station on Monday comes as Oxford University population experts declared they had found at least 1,500 Indian girl children "missing" from birth statistics in England and Wales in the last 17 years.