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DOMESTIC violence has been an urgent social and public health problem for decades in Pakistan, which has long believed women should bear mental and physical abuse as an unpleasant, if unavoidable, part of marriage. Instead of speaking out against abuse ...

Our last parliament reinvigorated General Zia’s draconian measure, though extremely differently. He had made two females equal to one male. And since our parliamentarians appeared to be suffering from a kind of diplopia (seeing two separate or overlapping images of ...

THERE can be no denying the fact that workplace sexual harassment is rampant in Pakistan — as it is across the world. There are cultural contexts that may differentiate how it manifests here, but our society is nonetheless no exception, ...

“When one husband beats his wife, there is a clear case of personal violence, but when one million husbands keep one million wives in ignorance, there is structural violence.”— Johan Galtung, Violence, Peace and Peace Research. In Pakistan, social media ...

One ought to appreciate the success of the Feminist Movement that has carved a path for creating laws that are women inclusive. However, a crime that should but is not reflective of the parity between genders is Section 375 of ...