KARACHI, March 9: About 50 per cent of women in Pakistan endure corporal punishment while 90 per cent of them suffer mental torture at the hands of men.
Speakers at a programme, organized by the Karachi Welfare Citizen Organization on the occasion of Women’s Day, regretted that discriminatory treatment was being meted out to women.
They said that the practice of Karo-kari was still in vogue in Sindh and lower Punjab due to which as many as 4,780 women had been killed during the last 13 years.
They emphasized the need for spreading education in the rural areas to safeguard women’s rights.—PPI
