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Weeks after the attempted murder, a group of 50 leading Muslim clerics in Pakistan issued a fatwā against those who tried to kill her. [16] Governments, human rights organizations and feminist groups subsequently condemned the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan. In response, the Taliban further denounced Yousafzai, indicating plans for a possible ...
Fatima Jinnah (1893–1967) was a Pakistani dental surgeon, biographer, stateswoman and one of the leading founders of Pakistan. Historically, Muslim reformers such as Syed Ahmad Khan tried to bring education to women, limit polygamy, and empower women in other ways through education. [11]
The 2023 documentary film, Hum Saya - Neighbor is on the issue of forced conversions and marriages of minority girls in Pakistan. It won the ‘Best Short Documentary on Human Rights award at the Venice Intercultural Film Festival 2023. [33] The The Sindh Story is a Sindhi film on forced conversion of Hindu girls in Sindh. [34]
The bill was tabled by a faction of the Pakistan Muslim League which in Sindh is led by Sufi leader Pir Pagara, called PML-F, Pakistan Muslim League functional. [10] In 2014, NGOs estimated that around 1000 girls from minority groups every year are being forcibly converted to Islam.
Zainab Amin Ansari (Urdu: زینب امین انصاری; c. 2010 – January 2018) was a seven-year-old Pakistani girl who was abducted in her hometown of Kasur, Punjab while she was on her way to Quran recitation classes on 4 January 2018.
Divorce in Pakistan is regulated by the Dissolution of Muslim Marriage Act (1939, amended in 1961) and the Family Courts Act (1964). The Child Marriage Restraint Act or CMRA (1929) set the marrying age for women at 16; in the province of Sindh, as per the Sindh Child Marriage Restraint Act, it is 18.
In Pakistan, Hindu and Christian girls are kidnapped, raped, forcibly converted to Islam and forced to marry Muslim men. About 1,000 non-Muslim girls are forcibly converted to Islam in Pakistan every year. [14] [15] However, according to "[t]he All Pakistan Hindu Panchayat (APHP)...[the] majority of cases of marriages between
Dr. Noor Jehan Panezai took oath as the 7th Deputy Chairman of the National Assembly of Pakistan on 21 March 1991. She was the first woman deputy chairman Senate of Pakistan who served in the office from 21 March 1991 to 20 March 1994. [55] In March 2018, Senator Sherry Rehman became the first woman Leader of the Opposition in the Senate. [56]