Jan. 17 (Bloomberg) — Samaira Nazir rejected Pakistani suitors chosen by her family and planned to elope with her Afghan boyfriend. The penalty for her defiance: death from 18 stab wounds inflicted by her brother and cousin at the family home in Southall, England. More than a dozen women are killed for violating community standards each year in the U.K., according to police. While Nazir’s killers were jailed for life, U.K. police ignore hundreds of “honor crimes’’ to avoid inflaming relations with Muslim enclaves as they work to head off homegrown terror plots, say lawmakers and women’s rights advocates. “There is a kid-gloves approach on the basis that you don’t want to offend these communities,’’ says Usha Sood, a lawyer and lecturer at Nottingham Trent University who specializes in forced marriage cases. “If you take into account the whole range of honor offenses, the number runs into the thousands.’’…