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This post and the 33 comments are over a press release. An alleged leaked copy of an alleged draft of a law.
This is what is wrong with Pakistan, Pakistani media, blogs, etal.
No one has read it, understood what is in it but everyone is sipping koolaide and going gaga!
An opinion is not the law and law is most certainly not an opinion.
The subject it self is worthy for discussion by itself and could have been discussed without the press release. And I agree, we need to discuss the good, the bad and the ugly.
hello.
i am a Pakistani student at Pennsylvania State University in America. i am working on a proposal for a non profit organization in Pakistan that deals with domectic violence. In my proposal i want to propose different laws and ways to implement the ones we have in pakistan that combat domestic violence. i would really appreciate any help i can get. we all know that the system is corrupt and the police can not help the girls. what do you all recommend. we can have laws that protect the women after they become victims. should we look at the police systems and protocals or even education in pakistan? should we adapt laws made by the United Nations?
again any help would be appreciated.
Hi my daughter just got up enough courgage to leave her husband after beating on her for 9 yrs. We need stiffer penalties for these men. And we need laws that give grandparents the right to step in and take their grandchildren out these situations. If anybody knows how to start these laws please let me know. thank you
Many law can be created to protect women in Pakistan, however the problem is unlikely to be solved as the whole of the criminal justice system of Pakistan is corrupted, from police officers accepting bribes and judge using their almost unlimited discretion to feed their biasness towards women, the effect of this law is unlikely to make a significant change to woman. Similar to the long standing constitution which granted equal right to men and women but women were still discriminated against, why because of the system. The law has changed but the system has not.