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![Pakistani Region Gives Women Legal Right To Property
PESHAWAR, Pakistan — A Pakistani regional assembly has passed a law making it illegal for parents not to extend property rights to female family members, RFE/RL’s Radio Mashaal reports.
The bill was presented in the assembly in the northwestern region of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa by deputy Noor Sahar and was unanimously passed on January 5.Under Islamic Shari’a law a daughter should receive half as much property from her parents as her brother would receive (two sisters’ shares put together would equal that given to a brother). This is the standard the province’s government expects its citizens to follow…[READ MORE]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxiva9DX7y1qkgi6go1_500.jpg)
Pakistani Region Gives Women Legal Right To Property
PESHAWAR, Pakistan — A Pakistani regional assembly has passed a law making it illegal for parents not to extend property rights to female family members, RFE/RL’s Radio Mashaal reports.
The bill was presented in the assembly in the northwestern region of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa by deputy Noor Sahar and was unanimously passed on January 5.
Under Islamic Shari’a law a daughter should receive half as much property from her parents as her brother would receive (two sisters’ shares put together would equal that given to a brother). This is the standard the province’s government expects its citizens to follow…[READ MORE]
