Following the brutal confrontation between residents at Donkorkrom in the Afram Plains North district in the Eastern Region and police officers in the area over alleged police involvement in a robbery attack on a GCB Bank bullion van which resulted in the murder of the driver of the van, wives of cops in the area … Read more
A total of 2,807 men reported domestic abuse cases against their wives last year as against 3,143 the previous year. Similarly, about 13,465 women also reported domestic violence cases against their spouses last year as against 15,207 the previous year. Statistics for the first half of the year are still being compiled by the Domestic … Read more
One of Pakistan’s powerful governing bodies, the Council of Islamic Ideology, has put together a 160-page draft that recommends that husbands should be able to beat their wives “lightly” if they decline sex or refuse to wear their chose of clothes. The Council of Islamic Ideology’s (CII) chairman, Muhammad Kahn Sherani, told the Express-Tribune newspaper: … Read more