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Our World: Pakistan's Women - Punished for Loving

12/12/2014 GMT

Pakistan's Women - Punished for Loving

BBC News - Our World, Pakistan's Women - Punished for Loving

Our World's Yalda Hakim has been granted rare access to Pakistan's largest women's jail.

Our World's Yalda Hakim has been granted rare access to Pakistan's largest women's jail. The women she meets there give an insight into the place of women in Pakistan society.

In Pakistan most women who find themselves in prison are there because they have been accused of adultery, still an imprisonable offence in Pakistan. They are charged under Pakistan's controversial Hadood laws, introduced in 1979 by the then military dictator Zia-ul-Huq in an effort to 'Islamise' the country. The country's legal system is regularly used to restrict Pakistani women's choice of whom to love and whom to marry. Controlling parents and wronged husbands can rely on the courts to side with them and not the accused women. Our World's Yalda Hakim has been granted rare access to Pakistan's largest women's jail. The women she meets there, and elsewhere in Karachi, give a fascinating insight into the place of women in Pakistan society.

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