Pakistan has strong laws on paper protecting women, from workplace harassment legislation to honour killing reforms. Yet enforcement gaps, low female workforce participation, and rural education drop-offs mean progress rarely reaches daily life. Areeba Ahmed examines why.
A long-running dispute over the treatment of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf founder Imran Khan inside Adiala Jail has resurfaced, with prison authorities pushing back publicly against claims from the party that the former prime minister is being held in isolation and denied adequate access to family and legal counsel. Jail officials say Khan, who has been in...
A judicial ruling from the Lahore High Court’s Rawalpindi Bench has clarified an important point of family law, stating that courts cannot automatically convert a cruelty-based suit into a simple Khula decree without the explicit and informed consent of the wife involved. According to reports, family courts cannot routinely convert a suit founded on cruelty...
The Punjab Assembly has taken up a resolution raising questions about dual citizenship and its implications for loyalty to the state, arguing that acquiring citizenship of another country involves an oath of allegiance that may conflict with obligations to Pakistan. According to reports, the resolution moved in the Punjab Assembly argues that acquiring citizenship of...