WOMEN PERSPECTIVE ON THE PROPOSED REWAJ ACT FOR FATA
By Azra Nafees Yousafzai Demands for comprehensive reforms to repeal the draconian and inhuman colonial-era Frontier Crimes Regulation and to restore fundamental human rights to more than 7 million inhabitants of FATA have gathered momentum in the last few years. During the last decades several efforts and initiatives have been started to introduce much needed reforms in the tribal areas; but it appears all such initiatives actually aim at perpetuating the same old barbaric system by cloaking them with fancy new names and marginal changes without touching the main discriminatory clauses. The case of women rights is a good example....
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