Voice of Gender News From Pakistan
Mahyum Khan Chandio married 18 year old Irshad Khatoon but just after one day to their marriage he accessed her of Karo kari charges.
He shot dead the cousin of his wife Husbdar Chandio and injured her seriously. The injured woman was rushed to the local hospital for medical treatment. The police have arreted the accused and started further investigation.
Source: The Nation
Date:1/21/2007
It further resolved that micro credit should be provided to such entrepreneurs on flexible conditions and these workers get registered in order to avail the privileges of the labour as defined by the labour laws.
The workshop, a project of the Aurat Foundation was held jointly with its sub-committee focused on home-based female workers emancipation. Some fifty representatives of different NGOs in Sindh working for the same reason attended the programme. Female home-based workers from different handicraft industries also participated in the seminar. They voiced their problems at the forum which suggested that their economic prospects have not improved over the past decade, while contrary to that inflation has affected them equally much as other social classes.
It was said sometimes certain jobs take up more time than a single day on account of precision needed at the time of making, but the wages remain the same.
Speakers, that included Nuzhat Shireen of the Aurat Foundation, Farhat Perveen of PILER, Nadira Parveen, Vice President of the First Women’s Bank, and Aslam Brohi, Fareed Awan and Shireen Khan, human rights activists, unanimously stressed that workers at all levels should be registered legally and must recognise their rights of respectable earning and certain basic privileges. Nuzhat Shireen, emphasising the need for all workers to get registered and said that if the employer does not register his workers, the workers must form a union and get themselves registered in order to enjoy benefits like pensions, health allowances, gratuity like other labours do get according to the law.
Farhat Parveen discussed the situation of home-based workers in the informal sector and mentioned that these workers get exploited immensely and earn 40 per cent less than those working in the formal sector, while Fareed Awan deliberated on the C-177 Convention of the International Labour Organisation (ILO) and emphasised the need for Pakistan rectifying it in order to liberate its labour class.
Aslam Brohi discussed the initiatives taken in this regard by the civil society and their achievements and challenges. He urged the participants to form a network in the province, be devoted to the project and make monthly reports of the situation and problems of home-based workers in their own constituencies. Later these reports shall be shared with the Aurat Foundation so that an action plan could be formulated to improve the picture.
Source: The News
Date:1/21/2007
SAHIWAL: A woman was mercilessly put to death allegedly by her brothers for contracting a marriage of her own choosing, local police said on Saturday.
According to the police Shamim Akhtar, a resident of Tulle Bulle village, had tied the knot with Khizar Hayat in defiance of her family wishes. The couple was blessed with a son, and they were leading a happy and peaceful life.
However, their happy conjugal life ended on the night of December 31 when Akhtar’s brothers–Shabbar, Sabir and Zakir–allegedly took their sister to the Ravi river. The trio allegedly killed Akhtar and threw her body in the river.
Akhatr’s spouse Khizar Hayat was alarmed when she didn’t return home.
The subsequent search took him to the river, where he found the head-scarf of Akhtar and a visiting card of one of his brothers-in-law.
Hayat reported the matter to the police, which arrested Akhtar’s three brothers and their two accomplices–Ghulam Rasool and Bhura. The accused confessed to the crime. The police registered the murder case against them and mounted a search for Akhtar’s body.
Meanwhile, the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP), district Sahiwal chapter, condemned the incident and appealed to the district police officer (DPO) to take action against the killers.
Source: The News
Date:1/21/2007
LARKANA,Jan 20: The district and sessions court of Qambar-Shahdadkot on Saturday allowed Ms Sultana Chandio to live with her parents after police found her in Dewra village on Friday.
Ms Sultana’s mother Sahib Khatoon had moved the court suspecting that her daughter had been killed and the court asked police to locate her.
Qambar police on Friday conducted raid on Dewra village and found her alive. They moved her to a women’s police station in Larkana and on Saturday produced her in court.
She told the court that she was six months pregnant and accused her husband Mohammed Alam Dewro of mentally and physically torturing her after marriage.
The court after hearing her out permitted her to live with her parents.
Source: Dawn
Date:1/21/2007
LARKANA, Jan 20: A man seriously injured his bride on the first day of their marriage and shot dead her 13-year-old cousin on the pretext of karo-kari near Shahdadkot on Saturday.
The bridegroom Mian Bakhsh alias Meenhoon Khan Chandio fired on his bride Irshad Khatoon and assuming her dead rushed out the home to kill her cousin.
He found Hubdar Chandio, 13, when he was returning from a nearby village and shot him dead.
The bride was admitted to Chandka Medical College Hospital in critical condition.
The bridegroom alleged after he was arrested with murder weapon that his wife’s virginity was not intact. Sanjjar Bhatti police station have filed an FIR on the compliant of Ayaz Chandio, late Hubdar’s brother, against Mian Bakhsh, Sabz Ali and Shah Mohammed.
Source: Dawn
Date:1/21/2007