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ask the expert The Status of Women in Pakistan: A Muslim majority state and the 21st century.
Neshay Najam
Lahore, Pakistan
"All citizens are equal before law and are entitled to equal protection of law.
There shall be no discrimination on the basis of sex alone". "No citizen otherwise qualified for appointment in the service of Pakistan shall be discriminated against in respect of any such appointment on the ground only of…sex…" "Steps shall be taken to ensure full participation of women in all spheres of national life". "The state shall protect the marriage, the family, the mother…
"The state shall…[ensure] that…women are not employed in vocations unsuited to their sex alone…"
Constitution of Pakistan
Articles 25, 27, 35, 37.
"Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of the person. Men and women of full age without any limitation due to race, nationality or religion, have the right to marry or to have a family. They are entitled to equal rights as to marriage and its dissolution. Marriage shall be entered in to only with the free and full consent of the attending spouses. The family is the natural and fundamental group, unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and state."
Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 3 & 16.
According to Farkhanda Lodhi; a spirited feminist writer and an ex-chief librarian at the Government College, Lahore says in an interview with The Daily Dawn, November 27, 2001:
"Man is a moment but woman is life." All these beautifully constructed sentences take a180 degrees turn while
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submit articles to CrescentLife
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ask the expert The Status of Women in Pakistan: A Muslim majority state and the 21st century.
Neshay Najam
Lahore, Pakistan
"All citizens are equal before law and are entitled to equal protection of law.
There shall be no discrimination on the basis of sex alone". "No citizen otherwise qualified for appointment in the service of Pakistan shall be discriminated against in respect of any such appointment on the ground only of…sex…" "Steps shall be taken to ensure full participation of women in all spheres of national life". "The state shall protect the marriage, the family, the mother…
"The state shall…[ensure] that…women are not employed in vocations unsuited to their sex alone…"
Constitution of Pakistan
Articles 25, 27, 35, 37.
"Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of the person. Men and women of full age without any limitation due to race, nationality or religion, have the right to marry or to have a family. They are entitled to equal rights as to marriage and its dissolution. Marriage shall be entered in to only with the free and full consent of the attending spouses. The family is the natural and fundamental group, unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and state."
Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 3 & 16.
According to Farkhanda Lodhi; a spirited feminist writer and an ex-chief librarian at the Government College, Lahore says in an interview with The Daily Dawn, November 27, 2001:
"Man is a moment but woman is life." All these beautifully constructed sentences take a180 degrees turn while