Women Rights In Pakistan

Question 1

What article in the constitution of Pakistan proclaims equal rights to women?

Answer 1

Article 25(2): “There shall be no discrimination on the basis of sex”

Question 2

Why were Muslim women instrumental in the struggle for Pakistan?

Answer 2

In her 1999 paper in Pakistan Historical Journal, Azra Ali claims that Punjabi Muslim women were more likely to vote for The Muslim League than men

Question 3

What are major Legislative measures to secure women rights in Pakistan?

Answer 3

Ayub Khan: Family law ordinance

ZAB: DMG and PFS opened to women

Musharraf: Women Protection Bill 2006
10% quota in CSS

Question 4

What does article 35 of the Constitution state?

Answer 4

“full participation of women in all spheres of national life.”

Question 5

How was the Zia era in terms of women rights?

Answer 5

full of policy contradictions!
Women’s division in the Cabinet Secretariat, Shoora and Sixth Plan by Abida

But Hudood, Qanoon e Shahadat 1984:17, half diyat, offence of Zina ord 1979, marital rape,

Question 6

What was major women’s resistance to Zia ?

Answer 6

Women’s Action Forum 1981

Under leadership of

Question 7

Name victims and cases of women abuse in Pakistan due to Zia

Answer 7

Jehan Mina, adolescent orphan raped by her uncle

Safia Bibi, blind raped by employer

21% of women in Darul Amans in 1999

1/3 of women prisoners

Mukhtaran Mai 2002-2005

Question 8

What did BB do for women?

Answer 8

Ministry of Women’s Development

Lady Health Workers

First Women’s Bank

Women Studies

CEDAW

Question 9

What case ensured a woman’s right to marriage but requested laws to discourage love marriage?

Answer 9

Saima WAHEED 1997

Question 10

Women’s Rights in Popular Culture:

Answer 10

Sabiha: Who will cast the first stone

Question 11

Why can the period 2006 to 2016 be called a decade of women rights progress?

Answer 11

The women protection bill in 2006 was followed by a PPP govt that gave major portfolios to women.
Fehmida, Hina. Farzana. Aashiq Awan. Sherry. Faruki. Shehla Raza.

Protection against Harassment of Women at Workplace Bill 2009.

Question 12

Violence against women in rural areas includes:

Answer 12

Vani
Watta satta 
Dowry (highest deaths in the world)
Forced purdah
Honour killings (Diyat issue - Aurat Foundation)

Question 13

What is the literacy rate for women in Pakistan?

Answer 13

CIA Factbook puts it at 49% if the local definition of literacy is used.
This is one of the lowest in South Asia