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Filed Under: InternationalTagged: Call for Divorce Law Change in Pakistan December 3, 2008 by Webmaster · Leave a Comment Pakistan’s top Islamic advisory body has urged the government to amend divorce laws to give more say to women, triggering a controversy with religious hardliners vowing to resist the move. The Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) proposed to the government at the weekend that a divorce should go into effect within three months of a woman’s request for it. Under existing Pakistani laws, men are free to divorce their wives, but a woman can only start divorce proceedings if she first surrenders her right to ‘mehr,’ or money pledged to her at the time of wedding as a token of her husband’s earnestness. Click here to read more . . . Filed Under: InternationalTagged: Indian Muslims Refuse to Bury Terrorists December 3, 2008 by Laleh Bakhtiar, Ph.D. · Leave a Comment CNN article Filed Under: International, NewsTagged:
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Pakistan’s top Islamic advisory body has urged the government to amend divorce laws to give more say to women, triggering a controversy with religious hardliners vowing to resist the move. The Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) proposed to the government at the weekend that a divorce should go into effect within three months of a woman’s request for it. Under existing Pakistani laws, men are free to divorce their wives, but a woman can only start divorce proceedings if she first surrenders her right to ‘mehr,’ or money pledged to her at the time of wedding as a token of her husband’s earnestness.
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