Tuesday, 18 December 2012

Violence against women in Pakistan

ISLAMABAD: Violence against women is a problem of pandemic proportions in Pakistan as the number of women and girls killed in the name of ‘honour’ in 2011 alone is 2,341, according to figures compiled from reports by the Aurat Foundation.

The reported cases of violence against women so far during 2012 are 2,713 as per a research conducted by the Awaz Foundation Centre for Development. Mufti Abdul Razzaque Naqshbandi, naib, Tanzim-ul-Ihsan, while expressing concern on the rising cases of

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