DAR AL ISLAM-PAKISTAN: VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN INCREASING - - - RELATIVES ARE THE ONES RESPONSIBLE - - - POLICE DO NOTHING

Violence against women up with relatives as likeliest offenders

According to the annual Report on Violence Against Women released by the Citizen’s Commission for Human Development, murders, rapes, abductions and even burning of women “guilty” of unislamic behaviour or infidelity are up. In 70 per cent of the cases relatives are involved. Police rarely intervene.

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