• Three consecutive declarations of divorce will be punishable (punishment unspecified)

• Contracting a woman’s marriage to a Quran will be a crime carrying a ten-year sentence

• Ban on honour killing, karo kari, and siyah kari

• Ban on co-education past the primary level

• Female nurses should not attend to male patients

• Mothers must breastfeed for two years

• Ban on advertisements of baby formula/substitutes for breast milk

• A woman cannot use contraception without the husband’s permission

• An abortion after 120 days will be classified as murder.

Published in Dawn, May 27th, 2016

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