Pakistan

“Revitalising the land distribution programme”

The article raises questions about the transparency of the Sindh government’s land redistribution programme and refers to a research study conducted by a non-government organisation, Participatory Development Initiatives (PDI) which point to a number of flaws.

Land, Water and Gendered Nobilities in Pakistan: Exploring the Contradictions

“Criteria for land reforms in Sindh”

This article explains the objectives of the Sindh government’s land redistribution programme.

“Helping the landless become landowners”

“Pakistan – fighting for land rights for the poor”

The article covers Sindh’s government’s land redistribution programme and how it is helping women access land.

Women and Land in Pakistan and FATA: A concept note

Land Tenure and Property Rights in Pakistan

The author’s argue that rural discontent over chronic poverty, corruption, and the failure of the government to foster development is widespread in Pakistan and that land tenure and property rights are one aspect of these problems. Post-independence Pakistan has retained a feudal system of land tenure in which an elite class of landowners owns vast holdings worked by tenant farmers and laborers who live in persistent poverty. The Taliban is building popular support based in part upon anger over unequal distribution of land and unfair owner-tenant contracts.

Land for the Landless

This article explains the Sindh government’s land redistribution programme which will distribute approx two to eight acres of barrage land among approx 14,000 persons, most women in its first phase.

“The Law of Inheritance and Reported Case Law Relating to Women”

This paper discusses the trends of the superior courts on succession and inheritance rights available to women in Pakistan. While analysing some relevant landmark judgements from independence to 1992, the changes and development in the law regarding succession and inheritance over a much longer period of time have been traced.

“Slowly, women gain ground through land ownership”

This article highlight some impacts of a project initiated in Pakistan’s Sindh province, in 2008, to distribute 91,000 hectares of cultivable state land to 80,000 poor and landless peasants, many of them women. Indeed, 21,000 hectares of land to be distributed during the project’s second year is to be reserved for women, who are traditionally left out of land reform schemes and have less opportunities to own land.