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By Aisha Sarwari When attacking a woman becomes a crime — sticks, stones or even punches — people call it a landmark law. Perhaps we will award the same grandiosity to outlawing sticking pikes in the eyes of defenceless children. ...

LAHORE: The approval of the Punjab Protection of Women against Violence Bill 2015 will help curb incidents of violence against women, said Salman Sufi, a senior member of the CM’s Special Monitoring Unit Law and Order, on Sunday. “The bill ...

LAHORE: The Punjab Assembly Wednesday passed the Protection of Women against Violence Bill 2015. The bill features redress for female victims of violence, criminalises all forms of violence against women and provides them with special centres which remove the bureaucratic ...

ISLAMABAD: Oscar-winning filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy today called on Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, at the Prime Minister House. Talking to Chinoy, the Prime Minister said, “Customs and practices like honour killings have nothing to do with the divine principles and ...

BY: SADIA QASIM SHAH PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has sent the much delayed Domestic Violence Bill to Council of Islamic Ideology to seek its advice as it believes that the matter involves interpretation of Islamic injunctions. Law Secretary Mohammad ...