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Property rights law for women
From our correspondent

9 January 2006
LAHORE — Adviser to Prime Minister on Women’s Development Nilofar Bakhtiar has said that the Hudood Ordinance is being repealed and a bill for giving property rights to women is being moved in the National Assembly.

Speaking as the chief guest at a seminar on ‘Violence against Women and Eradication Meaures’ organised by the Punjab Social Services Board at the Alhamra Art Centre here, she said that Pakistan Muslim League President Chaudhry Shujaat Husain had given the consent of the party for the repeal of the Hudood Ordinance at a meeting held at Islamabad recently. She said that the government was making all possible efforts to change the destiny of women and had already taken a number of radical steps for the protection of their dignity and honour.


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