Violence against women is attack on Constitution: Supreme Court

Women exercising lawful rights should not be subjected to violence with impunity: SC

While rejecting an appeal by a convict who murdered his former wife just two days after she obtained a judicial decree dissolving their marriage, the Supreme Court on Saturday ruled that women who exercise their lawful rights should not be subjected to violence with impunity. “This court, being mindful of the constitutional imperative to protect the life and dignity of women and to ensure that those who exercise their lawful rights are not subje…

Violence against women is attack on Constitution: Supreme Court

F.P. Report ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court has delivered an important ruling on women’s rights, declaring that a woman’s right to seek divorce is constitutionally protected and that violence against a woman exercising that right amounts to an attack on the Constitution. A three-member bench dismissed the jail petition of convict Wasim Abbas and upheld his death sentence for murdering his former wife, Shahnaz Bibi. In its four-page judgement author…