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Article: 'Pakistan's law on domestic violence will increase divorces'
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- The Hindustan Times
- Article date:
- August 25, 2009
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Islamabad, Aug. 25 -- Pakistan's just-enacted law against domestic violence will increase family feuds and divorces and could also result in old, weak and indisposed men being made to suffer, says the Council of Islamic Ideology (CII).
Saying that the Domestic Violence (Prevention and Protection) Bill that parliament passed earlier this month was ambiguous and contained few reforms, the council held that the bill assumed only women and children could be victims of domestic violence, ignoring the possibility of old, weak and indisposed men also suffering.
'This is also against the cardinal principle that everyone is equal before the law and must be treated on a par.' the council said in a ...