Women Policing in Pakistan: Prospects and Challenges Sajjad Hussain1, Hamid Alam2 & Farhat Ullah3, Abstract Women role has changed considerably during the last few decades and Pakistani women are joining those professions where they could not enter in the past. Despite this trend, women face difficulties in the form of socio-cultural constraints to join law […]
Paradigms of Homicidal Female Honour Victimization in Sindh Nabi Bakhsh Narejo & Shamsuddin Syed Abstract This article articulates the new paradigms of Homicidal Female Honor Victimization in the rural context of Sindh. The study focuses on exploring the etiology of the homicide-related victimization of the females. The background literature and studies laid the conceptual framework starting […]
Brief Report on the Issues Faced by Women Police in the North-West Frontier Province (NWFP) Fida Muhammad Women police own their existence to the Women’s Political & Social Union of Great Britain when WPSU agreed to the decision to give full support to the British war effort during the First World War by founding the women […]
Relationship of Pessimistic Attitude with Childhood Abuse Among the Female Prisoners of Punjab Prisons Sarwat Inayat Mirza Abstract This study will examine the relationship between experience of abuse and pessimistic attitude among the female prisoners in the Punjab Prisons. Data was collected with the help of questionnaire and psychological test was conducted. Results revealed correlation between […]
Violence Against Women in Pakistan: Constraints in Data Collection Imran Ahmad Sajid, Naushad Ali Khan & Sumera Farid Abstract It is a fact that women’s rights are continuously violated at a large scale in Pakistan. Violence against women is a systematic and widespread violation of human rights, not only in Pakistan but also in the […]
Study of Causes and Correlates of Honor Killings in District Sukkur Nabi Bakhsh Narejo & Sharjil Karim Kharal Abstract Honour killings in Sindh are result of backward attitudes, male-oriented suspicion, cultural customs and rural ecology. The perpetrators are male-dominated actors, usually husbands, brothers and fathers. The victims are excessively married females young ranging from ages twenty […]
Anxiety, Attachment and Guilt: Predicting Criminal Behavior in Female Students in Sindh Waheed A. Abbasi Abstract Antisocial or criminal tendencies have been identified in female students through Psychopathy Checklist-Revised and in order to find anxiety, attachment and guilt; concerned scales have been used. According to the study results, anxiety and guilt have been measured as […]
Violence Against Women: Violation of Right to Life of Women in FATA M. Maqbool Khan Wazir Abstarct Violence against women is present in every country, cutting across boundaries of culture, class, education, income, ethnicity and age. Even though most societies proscribe violence against women, the reality is that violations against women’s human rights are often sanctioned […]
Empower Pakistan: Detonating The Minds of Pakistan Females J. M. (Johan) Ras Abstract Pakistani women has a critical role to play in the liberating of their country from violence, religious extremism, terrorism, poverty, unemployment and underdevelopment. As the first line of defense between their infants and the challenges of an unknown and uncertain world, they have […]
Early British Efforts to Crush Karo Kari in Colonial Sind Aftab Nabi & Dost Ali Baloch Abstract Karo kari or honour killing is a chronic issue, deeply rooted in the socio-cultural life of Sindh and Baluchistan province since ages. This article dilates upon it from the perspective of crime prevention policy in the recent past when […]