‘60% marriage contracts found incomplete in Punjab’

 

A  individual study of Punjab  named' guarding Women’s Marriage Rights in Pakistan'  set up 60 of nikahnamas, registered from 2016 to 2022, as deficient.   The National Commission for Human Rights( NCHR) and Musawi, an independent  exploration organisation, expressed concern over the high chance while agitating the study's findings in aninter-provincial working group meeting on  guarding women's marriage rights.   

This meeting, was the third in a series of working groups, to  bandy the  parochial differences in legislation and  perpetration  frame regarding women’s marriage rights across Pakistan.  

 According to the study, the bridegroom’s CNIC number was missing in 48 of the total nikah contracts out of which 75 misters were marked between the  periods of 16 to 18 times. Only 8 nikahnamas contained the right of yearly allowance, 39 had nan nafqah/ haq maher attestation column crossed out or left blank.   

 In addition, 51 of the nikah contracts didn't contain any special conditions, only 24 of nikah contracts mentioned date of enrollment  of the nikahnama, while the bridegroom's age was mentioned in only 6 nikah contracts.   NCHR speaker Rabiya Javeri Agha  stressed the  significance of clarity of laws on the  description of child.   

“ There are different laws and  programs  similar as Composition 11- 3 and Composition 25A of the Constitution which give a differing interpretation of the age of the child. 

There should be uniformity and  agreement in civil and  parochial laws, ” she said emphasising the  significance of  fastening on the nikahnama as a legal document to  insure protection of women's marriage rights.   CEO Musawi Fatima Yasmin Bokhari stressed the need to  make amulti-stakeholder collaboration for advocacy on marriage rights on aninter-provincial platform to partake stylish practices and enablecross-learning from differing  parochial legal  fabrics, processes and practices.  

 NCHR Punjab Member Nadeem Ashraf expressed his vision of creating systemic  enhancement and the possibility of a  invariant policy between all  businesses and ICT regarding marriage rights to  insure the  collective benefit of every  fiefdom with future and being laws. 

  Actors of the working group included members from  parochial assembly, civil society, government  officers and other applicable stakeholders.   Attendees of the meeting stressed the need for  invariant marriage laws rather than  counting on different laws across  businesses. 

They also  prompted the  significance of  perpetration of the being marriage rights-affiliated laws and  programs. The need to raise  mindfulness about rights mentioned within the nikahnama contract was also emphasised.