Pakistan

Pakistan: Women's Action Forum issues statement on last week's murder of Zille Huma

Women activists and civil society members in Pakistan issue a public statement on the gender-based killing of the Punjab provincial Minister of Social Welfare.

Pakistan: Pro-women's rights minister killed by known extremist

Zille Huma killed by man previously held in connection with the brutal murder of four sex workers.

Pakistan's ruling party introduces bill to prohibit forced marriages

The 'Anti-Women Practices Bill' seeks to make illegal forced marriages and depriving women of their inheritance rights.

Pakistan: Teenage girl abducted, raped and disrobed: demand justice

Women's rights activists demand Pakistan state authorities ensure justice for a teenage girl who has been kidnapped, raped and forced to parade naked publicly.

Pakistan: Four women allegedly murdered under the pretext of 'honour'

Just fourteen days after the National Assembly of Pakistan passed a Women's Protection Bill in order to provide relief and protection to women against the abuse of laws against premarital and extramarital sex, WLUML is deeply concerned to learn of another brutal "honour killing" case reported, from the Shikarpur district in the Sindh Province of Pakistan on 29 November 2006.

Pakistan: Teenaged victim of rape and forced disrobing seeks justice

Six men have been arrested on a charge of raping a teenaged girl and forcing her to parade naked through her village near Ubaro because one of her relatives had eloped with a young woman from the men’s family.

Pakistan: Women's access and rights to land and property

This study is an attempt to understand gender and social and power relations that govern women's land and property rights, their access and control over land and other related resources.

Pakistan: When she speaks, he’s breaking all of Islam’s taboos

Ali Saleem may have devised the perfect, if improbable, cover for breaking taboos in conservative, Muslim Pakistan.

UPDATE: Pakistan: Demand action after incident of sexual violence at the Islamic Learning Department of Karachi University

Colleagues at Shirkat Gah, WLUML Asia regional coordination office have been monitoring the situation and have confirmed that they have made efforts to meet with staff from the university departments involved and that the female student is now reported missing. There has been no further news on the incident and despite letters being sent to the judiciary and the university authorities, this case does not have a positive outcome. However, many thanks to those of you who responded.

Pakistan: Call to murder must not go unpunished

The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has been shocked to receive a copy of a horrifying Fatwa’ (edict) issued by a cleric in the Darra Adam Khel area of the NWFP and has written to the interior minister asking him to do his duties.