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Women have always been treated as second grade citizen in Pakistan. Pakistan is considered the 3rd unsafe country for women to live. Pakistani women are facing problems in their private and public life. Violence is the most thriving issue for the women in Pakistan. The main reason of the wide spread violence is poverty and ignorance. Social structure is not supporting woman although gender ratio of population is more than half. This paper is an attempt to explore the causes and types of violence in Pakistan. It also deals with the effects of violence in society. State has introduced a number of legislations but the common woman in Pakistan is conscious about her rights. The state of Pakistan is not progressed without the help of other gender. State and women both have to take the task to eradicate the issue of violence.
Keywords: Sati, Jauhar, Karo Kari, Watta Satta.
Introduction
The history of violence against women is not new. It began with the patriarchal discourse of Indian society. Women were the victims of many social evil like child marriage, Purdah, Jauhar, niyayoga and sati etc. This region has a long legacy of violence which is still continued in India and Pakistan. In Pakistan women are facing violence in form of forced marriage, sexual assault on work place, domestic violence and honor killing. It is the most venerable problem which has social, emotional, psychological and physical consequences. The term, "Violence" means a behavior in which someone try to damage, kill or hurt others by physical force. According to the recent statics one out three women faced domestic violence in their relationship globally. 69% of the women are reported to the victim of physical assault by their partners during their life time. Every woman is betrayed by her partner after every 15 second even in United States of America. The factories behind this social evil vary from region to region but women facing violence is common everywhere in the world. It is need of the time to investigate the issue of violence within Pakistani context and determine some remedies to coup with it socially (Davis, Women and Violence, 1994). Pakistan is an agrarian state where the concept of personal ownership is very much common. Women...