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2. Divorce in Pakistan - Wikipedia

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   Divorce in Pakistan is mainly regulated under the Dissolution of Muslim Marriage Act 1939 amended in 1961 and the Family Courts Act 1964. [1] Similar to global trends divorce rate is increasing gradually in Pakistan too. [citation needed] In Punjab (Pakistan), in 2014 khula cases registered were 16,942 that rose to 18,901 cases in 2016. [2]

3. Women related laws in Pakistan - Wikipedia

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   Divorce in Pakistan is regulated by the Dissolution of Muslim Marriage Act (1939, amended in 1961) and the Family Courts Act (1964). The Child Marriage Restraint Act or CMRA (1929) set the marrying age for women at 16; in the province of Sindh, as per the Sindh Child Marriage Restraint Act, it is 18.

4. Khul' - Wikipedia

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   A form of khulʿ was adopted by Egypt in 2000, allowing a Muslim woman to divorce her husband without any fault. The law is so strict that only 126 women out of 5,000 women who applied for khul were actually granted. As a condition of the divorce, the woman renounces any financial claim on the husband and any entitlement to the matrimonial home ...

5. Pakistan's Imran Khan to remain in jail despite acquittal in ...

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   The couple were sentenced to seven years in February when a court found them guilty of breaking Islamic law by failing to observe the required interval between the divorce from a previous marriage ...

6. Women in Pakistan - Wikipedia

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   Women in Pakistan make up 48.76% of the population according to the 2017 census of Pakistan. [3] ... [26] which regulated marriage, divorce, and polygamy [27] ...

7. A Pakistani court acquits ex-PM Khan and wife in marriage ...

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   A Pakistani court on Saturday overturned the conviction and seven-year prison sentence of former Prime Minister Imran Khan and his wife in the case of the couple’s alleged 2018 unlawful marriage ...

8. Feminism in Pakistan - Wikipedia

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   The 1961 Muslim Family Laws Ordinance covering marriage and divorce, the most important sociolegal reform to have had Feminist drive in Pakistan, is still widely regarded as empowering to women. [ 13 ] [ 14 ]

9. Pakistan ex-PM Imran Khan and wife jailed for 7 years for ...

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   ISLAMABAD (Reuters) -Former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan and his wife Bushra Khan were sentenced to seven years in prison and fined on Saturday by a court that ruled their 2018 marriage ...