women rights and violence in pakistan

Women's rights in Pakistan is a big question often raised in the West. It is believed that women has no rights or privileges in the male dominated society of Pakistan.The women in Pakistan have been constantly complaining of having being isolated from the mainstream of society. Women feel being badly treated by our male oriented society, the women in Pakistan are almost equal to men. They are equal in potential as the men.
 More then 75 percent of women in Pakistan experience domestic violence. This violence can range from beatings, to sexual violence or torture, to broken bones and very serious injury caused by throwing  of acid on them or burning them alive in the vast majority of cases where women lost their lives as a result of violence at home, it was their husbands and in-laws who were to blame; while at other times it was the victims’ brothers and fathers.Some women who want divorce or separation from their hubbies were violently beaten up by them black mailed my them sexually violeted.. since another form of violence commonly faced by women in Pakistan is sexual violence.Women who seem independent or those who work are consistently sexually harassed, many times by male members of staff as independence and working away from home are seen as signs of indecency. This harassment is not only inflicted on lower and middle class women, but even female members of parliament have reported consistent harassment from men in their constituencies.Acid throwing is another abuse on women to “teach them a lesson”. In many instances, men who had proposed for a woman’s hand in marriage only to be declined have resulted in throwing acid on the girls not only that women who wants separation from their hubbies,also face such consequences because she has dishonoured him

according to the report of july 6th 2011 the total number of violence against women in 2010 were reported 8000 against a figure of 8548 in 2009.total number of cases by terriotry are .in punjab 5492 ,in sindh 1652 in Kp 650 ,in balochistan 79 nd in Isl 127 this shows that the most violence against women occured in cities n villages of punjab province.