Pakistan Gender News Voice of Gender News From Pakistan

The problem of widespread domestic violence is a part of a larger problem: an overall scorn for women rooted in culture. A woman’s dignity and self-respect are shamelessly trampled upon across the length and breadth of the country — in ...

Domestic violence has become a major issue in Pakistan and other subcontinental countries. About 5,000 women are killed in Pakistan from domestic violence with thousands of others maimed or disabled. The Thomson Reuters Foundation ranked Pakistan as the third most ...

QUETTA: A 13-year-old girl, who claims to have been forcibly married to a 40-year-old man, has approached the police to save her from domestic violence. Noor Khatoon, a resident of Maulana Mor area in Jaffarabad district, lodged a complaint against ...

HARIPUR: A 25-year-old woman has filed a complaint against her husband for beating her mercilessly for refusing to hand over Rs500,000 of her dowry and a portion of the house he promised her at the time of the nikkah. The ...

Karachi: A husband killed his wife in their residence in Quaidabad police limits on Sunday in an instance of domestic violence. Mumtaz Bibi, 35, in an instance of domestic violence was tortured and then strangled to death by her husband, ...